At this time, Atoz Home Garden reader ask a question about How do I landscape my front yard corner lot?. I have a huge front yard. Its divided in half by my drive way. On one side is a large grassy corner with a stop sign and a speed limit sign in the tip of it. Its just too plain but I’m not sure how to landscape it. Please send me any links of pictures or explain your ideas. There are a lot of kids that walk the neighborhood and cut my corner so I can’t do anything like a pond.
Please send me any ideas!
Dear Lisa, In my humble opinion, with my experiences in landscape pictures… here is my best answer.
you could make a flower bed in the corner and plant a couple of nice trees in your yard, maybe dogwood or crape myrtle.
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Your community will have an ordinanace on just what you can put around that sign and how high it can be. People need to be able to see traffic and pedestrians when stopped at the corner. You’ll need to check that out. For example here nothing higher than 30 inches is permitted in a triangle from where the two “gutters” come together and back 35 feet. Then then a diagonal line is drawn from those two points.
That’s also the zone where the kids are cutting across. Not knowing your neighborhood and style home it’s hard to give you ideas. One thought is to put a fence out from your house and angle it along that diagonal. Then from the fence to the sidewalks plant some gnarly, thorny plant that the kids will avoid and will still be low enough to be legal. OK then you need to tend the gnarly plants from time to time and that’s unpleasant. Another thought is to put cobblestones down with low cotoneasters or some other evergreen low shrub/groundcover. The cobbles are a pain to walk on, even for kids and eventually the groundcover/low shrubs will cover them up.