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Different pictures of landscape beds on the
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I have had many clients wanting their air condition units or meters covered up with some style of shrubs.
I wanted to show you a variety of beds along the sides of different houses.
The homes represent a mixture of price ranges. Everybody has their own appearance they want to accomplish.
Take a look at the eleven photos and get some ideas for landscaping the side of your home.

Notice how the front bed curves out and connects with the side bed. This is a different option for you, connecting one landscape bed to another. Of course you can have separate beds as well to have a more defined look. This adds a complete look to the property.

The Crepe Myrtles are a nice break to the shrub pattern. In a side bed like this you have the option of doing all evergreens or combining both evergreen and deciduous plants. Make sure you have no dead spaces throughout the side bed.


These two photos are plants in a row or hedge. The evergreens in the first picture gives the client year around color. The second photo is another picture of a straight row of mature Hostas. This is an established house.


Above are two totally different houses. The first one has shrubs that were planted for almost three years.
The homeowner didn't want big trees or shrubs. He opted for a majority of medium size bushes along with a couple of upright narrow trees.
The object here was to break up the look of a hedge or row. Another option he could have done was to incorporate a few more variety of sizes along the side.
Perennial flowers add so much to any garden or landscape. I love to incorporate annuals or perennials in a defined landscape bed along the side of a house.
Evergreens and flowering shrubs, along with colorful perennials, completes the bed. Flowers are a great option for you. Now is a wonderful time to purchase flower, herbs, and vegetable seeds.
Germinate them inside our out, depending on your climate. You will have a head start on your upcoming growing season.
There are two window along the house. The railroad ties run about three feet from the house. This is not a large amount of space to work with.
An idea is to put some low growing or dwarf shrubs in as their roots will not spread out underneath the foundation. Add some taller shrubs for a different look.
Plant some fuller shrubs in front of the meters and air conditioning units. Perennial or annual flowers placed throughout the bed will fill in the dead spaces.


The two pictures are shots of a short side of a home. The house was a new construction and the first picture is of the shrubs starting to grow.
The second is their maturity after three years and four months. The variegated Cypress really begin to show their colors. This is also a picture that is in the related page on the process of planning and prepping of a side bed. To me, it is nice to see the growth pattern even of a smaller landscape area.

I really enjoyed this job as one of the things that is so important to me, is to revisit the job site periodically. I loved talking with the clients as well as making sure their outdoor investment was to their satisfaction.


The two pictures are shots of a short side of a home. The house was a new construction and the first picture is of the shrubs starting to grow.
The second is their maturity after three years and four months. The variegated Cypress really begin to show their colors. This is also a picture that is in the related page on the process of planning and prepping of a side bed. To me, it is nice to see the growth pattern even of a smaller landscape area.
Each of these photos gives you a few ideas of different plant specimens to put along the side of your home. As you can see some people will plant different shrubs on each side.
The most important step is to keep it simple, yet think about the final outcome and how the new shrubs or flowers will improve the value of your property. It will also create a nice look to enhance the front and back yard.
Between the process of doing a side landscape bed page and this gallery page, I hope I have been able to provide some suggestions you can use when planning a landscape bed on the sides of your home. Feel free to check out other plants in the gallery of plants section as well as the tropics and variety of more plants.
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