FRONT OF HOUSE

GIVE YOUR VISITORS A WARM WELCOME WITH A GORGEOUS GARDEN

- DAVID DOMONEY

YOUR front garden is the handshake of your home - a first impression that can be welcoming, wonderful and full of life.

Whether you've got a sweeping drive or just space for a porch pot, there's plenty of potential to turn this underused area into something beautiful and beneficial.

A patch of potential

Over the past decade, millions of front gardens across the UK have been paved over.

While there's been a welcome rise in greenery recently, with more people reintroducing plants to their plots, many front gardens remain bare.

Plants in front gardens do more than please the eye.

They reduce flooding by slowing surface runoff, cool the environ ment through evaporation, and draw pollution from the air.

Even a few pots can provide shel ter, nectar and berries for pollina tors and other wildlife.