Front yard mistakes are easy to make – not least because they’re a little trickier to navigate than private and more sociable backyards, which tend to have a bit more of a blueprint to follow. So if you’ve struggled to establish a design or planting scheme you’re happy with, or inject a bit of character, you’re not alone.
‘Front yards tend to be less programmed,’ explains David Godshall of Los Angeles and San Francisco landscape architecture design studio TERREMOTO. ‘People know what they want to do with the privacy of their backyard – but front yards can potentially be more decorative, and the vagueness of that can make them more of a perplexing question than the backyard.’
