Are you looking for fresh new flower bed ideas for in front of your house and around your home?
Great, you’re in the right place!
Below you find a gorgeous collection of flower bed designs that you’re sure to fall in love with.
These flower beds really enhance the look and entry of your home with gorgeous color and style.
You’ll find a mixture of evergreens and shrubs all expertly arranged among perennial and annual flowers.
Some flower varieties are listed, but for full details follow the source links below an image you love.
And as always, put a pin in your favorites that you can reference later.
Let’s get to it!
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#1) Curved Front Entry Flower Bed Idea
Source: Pinterest
This stunning perennial flower bed is filled with a cool color combination of blues, purple and white.
This looks incredible in modern farmhouse landscaping, and many of these flower varieties are perennials that will re-grow every year.
#2) “River” of Flowers Planting Idea
Is this gorgeous, or is this gorgeous? This amazing design comes from 1001 Gardens.
The curved planting design beautifully mimics river water, which could be replicated in a front flower bed design.
I love the tulips planted in clusters at the edges of the ‘river.’ This really helps create the flowing effect.
So pretty!
#3) Full & Overflowing Front Of The House Flower Bed
Source: YouTube
This stunning front yard flower bed is one gardening dreams are made of.
Notice the taller perennials are towards the back, while shorter tightly clustered annuals are positioned up towards the front.
#4) Low-Maintenance Perennial Flower Bed Idea
This lovely violet display as shown on Western Gardens helps teach flowering enthusiasts how to get gorgeous results year after year with perennials.
If you’re new to the gardening world, a perennial is a plant or flower that will grow again each year.
This makes them a wonderful choice for a low maintenance flower beds.
You should know, that when planting a perennial, you will need to pay attention to the zone rating.
The zone rating refers to geographic regions where a particular plant will grow best. Zone ratings are almost always located on the plant’s price tag.
If this is all new to you, you can go here to find which plant zones work best in your area!
The lovely blue flowers pictured here are cinerarias flowers that grow best in zones 9-11.
#5) Stunning Pink & Purple Flower Bed Layout Idea
Source: Pinterest
This gorgeous flower bed idea really sets off the front of the house.
Taller ever green trees are planted along the back, while a mixture of purple salvia and pink perennials fill the bed below.
#6) Head Turning Flower Bed Ideas- Add Height
Carly, over at Organized Clutter features some brilliant ideas on how she adds visual interested to the flower bed gardens around her house.
She recycles farmhouse style ladders, galvanized buckets on top of plants (as pictured above), and even inverted oil cans and linear garden signs.
Adding height and varying levels will take your flower bed design to the next level.
Head on over to her blog and take a peek at her ideas, thanks Carly!
#7) Flower Bed Idea For A Fence Line
Speaking of vertical interest, how about this stunning flower bed idea from Pinterest?
The tall flowers look amazing when planted just in front of a backdrop. This backdrop could be a fence line (as pictured above), or the front of your home.
Also notice the flower bed edging.
Instead of making a straight edge, they used a pronounced s-curve design. This adds so much style to your flower bed design.
When planted, remember to plant taller plants/shrubs/flowers in the back, and shorter towards the front.
Gorgeous.
#8) Rows Of Color Flower Bed Idea
Source: Quiet Joy At Home
This creative flower bed planting arrangement has a more formal feel with bold and beautiful style.
Curved rows of the same flowers are planted in a linear fashion to emphasize flower bed curvatures.
The planting technique looks great along a walkway!
#9) Flowers In A Tree Stump
Source: Pinterest
Another fun and creative way to add interest to your flower bed and yard is to plant flowers into an old tree stump.
Notching, or hollowing out the inside works as the perfect natural planter.
When mature flowers start spilling over the wood the results are simply stunning!
#10) Hello Hydrangeas Flower Bed Idea
Source: Quiet Joy At Home
This incredible front flower bed looks incredible with overflowing hydrangea flowers, all in mixed color varieties.
The tight boxwood hedge behind provides a nice backdrop while the simple flowers can grow and mix blossoms along the lawn edge.
#12) Shaded Front Flower Bed Idea
Source: Flikr
This flower bed features lovely shade plants as well as herbs!
This lush and lovely collection all does well in shaded areas. I also like the ledge stone rock circle around the tree.
#13) Adding Containers To Your Front Flower Beds
Source: Unknown
When designing your front flower bed, consider adding containers to the ground level planting surface for height and dimension.
Well placed pots can look incredible inside the flower bed as well as alongside a walkway.
#14) Side Yard Flower Bed Idea With Edging
This fun before and after makeover project was featured on Hometalk.
What used to be a bare weed filled side yard turned into a lovely lush flower garden with the neatly arranged hostas and annual flowers.
When edged with easy connect brick pavers it provides the perfect definition from the lawn.
#15) Add Vertical Perennial Varieties For Height and Color
Source: Pinterest
These gorgeous linear delphinium flowers are a wonderful perennial flower to add height to your front flower beds.
These look incredible along an exterior wall or walkway, while round clustered flowers sit neatly below.
#16) Clay Pots In Flower Bed Idea
I love this idea from Sequin Gardens! Having flower pots buried in a rock garden makes planting bulbs and other perennials so easy.
If you put your flowers conveniently inside the plastic containers in the pots you could even change them out throughout the growing seasons.
You could place early spring lilies and tulips, beautiful mid summer varieties, and then mums for fall!
Clay pots will require a little extra attention in watering however.
Keep that in mind if your flower bed catches a lot of direct sunlight and is prone to drying out.
#17) Overflowing Fence Line Flower Bed Idea
Source: Family Handyman
If your front flower bed follows a fence line, consider this stunning planting arrangement idea.
Large climbing flowers towards the back for height and spill effect are offset with alternating bright green and dark purple salvia.
#18) Elevated Log Planter Idea
I just love this idea as see on HomeBNC!
Someone could recreate this look with wooden fence posts, or stained/raw lumber.
Make sure you bury as much of the planter as you reveal and pack well to ensure sturdy construction.
What a great way to add height and structure within your yard or flower bed.
#19) Perfectly Arranged Flower Bed In Front Of The House
Source: Pinterest
This tidy front yard flower bed is doing everything right.
The small ground cover up front along a stone flower bed edging, mounding perennial hydrangeas in the middle, with taller grasses and shrubs along the back.
#20) Flower Bed Around A Tree
A classic never dies when it comes to tree rings!
You will find this lovely design as well as many others over at goodshomedesign.com. Though I must admit, there seems to be a bit of a war waging on in the comments section regarding how much mulch is “safe” around the base of a tree.
There adamant outdoor enthusiasts swearing to mulch it up, while others claim too much mulch can kill a tree.
I’m guessing a good dose of common sense would go a long way here.
If your tree is freshly planted make sure it has room to breath, especially around the crown. If your tree has been there for decades I can’t imagine a ring of mulch would cause to much harm.
Just sayin. 😉
Happy Flower Bedding Ya’ll!
I hope you found some flower bed ideas that you can use around your home!
For even more outdoor inspiration,check out these related posts below…
- 12 Gorgeous Flower Pot Ideas For Your Front Porch
- 15 Landscaping Ideas For Along The Fence
- 15 Transformative Flower Bed Edging Ideas
- 15 Inspiring Flower Garden Ideas You’ll Want To Try
- 15 Front Yard Modern Landscaping Ideas With Major Impact
Cheers for now!
