Plants that look spectacular in a front yard include flowering shrubs, perennial plants that come back every year, and colorful annual flowers. Flowers for the front of the house provide instant curb appeal, making your garden landscape and home look beautiful. Many flowering plants are ideal for landscaping your front yard. They are fantastic additions to our flowerbeds, and we love the accent that they offer to our front porches, our mailboxes, our flowerbeds, and our backyards.Email Pinterest Facebook Twitter Linkedin We cultivate plants that love our hot summers, our mild winters, and that look great all year. A great thing about gardening in the South is that we get treated to colorful flowers, leaves, or berries in every season. The moment when flowers burst forth with their vibrant blooms is one of the most exciting times for gardeners…or anyone with a yard, or anyone passing by said yard. Where to Buy: Order from Jenks Farmer or Plant Delights Nursery. Some, such as Crinum x powellii 'Alba' and 'Ellen Bosanquet,' are hardy farther north. Where to Grow: Most do best in the Lower, Coastal, and Tropical South (zones 8-10). How to Grow: Most prefer at least five hours of sun a day. Why You'll Love Them: Fragrant, trumpet-shaped flowers in many colors appear in spring, summer, or fall. We wish more plants were this low-maintenance. These plants like sun and don’t care much about the sort of soil in which you plant them. They come in an array of rainbow hues, ensuring that your yard will be adorned in your favorite vibrant colors. If you need a low-maintenance, high-impact flower, this low-fuss lily will be your go-to plant. Because they grow into huge bulbs over time, they're practically indestructible. Crinums laugh at drought, don't need fertilizer, and welcome hot, humid summers with lily-like flowers that perfume the air. When we talk about a rough-and-tumble, resilient plant, this is what we’re thinking of. Good mail-order sources include Brushwood Nursery and Joy Creek Nursery. Where to Buy: Local garden centers have lots of choices in spring. When you buy, ask at the nursery what type you have and when you should prune. When to Prune: Some types bloom on new growth and some on old growth. How to Fertilize: Feed monthly in spring and summer with an organic fertilizer labeled for roses or tomatoes. It likes cool roots, so plant where the leaves get sun but roots are shaded. How to Grow: Plant clematis in fertile, loose, well-drained soil with lots of organic matter. When to Plant: Fall and spring are good times, because the weather is cool. Or, for a more laissez-faire gardening style, let them ramble and scramble over your shrubs and perennials. We recommend growing this versatile vine on a fence, on a trellis, or in a container. It offers blossoms of blue, purple, red, pink, or white. Clematis is one of the showiest vines we have, and it would look great in your yard. There’s nothing more stately or romantic than deep green tendrils winding around fences and columns, especially when you’ve chosen a delicate, flowering vine species. Here, interior designers from around the South share their predictions for what's trending in kitchen design for 2022 and beyond.Īnother way to make the most of your yard landscape is by planting lovely rambling vines. We're turning away from big-box stores and toward vintage items-first, out of necessity due to supply-chain issues, and now, for design reasons-to add charm and character to every room in the house, including the kitchen. An overall trend toward celebrating the history and originality of our homes is displacing ultramodern aesthetics and sharp lines as we all look to create cozier, colorful, more personalized spaces that better suit our lifestyles. 16 Kitchen Design Trends Southern Designers Predict Will Be Everywhere in 2022 There's no denying how the pandemic fundamentally changed the world-including how we live (and work) inside our homes.