Colorful Plantings to Brighten Up Your Front Yard in Wayland and Newton, MA

As you drive up to your Wayland or Newton, MA, home, does your front yard bring you happiness? These ideas for colorful plantings can brighten this outdoor space to delight you in every season.

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Spring 

The amazing skills of landscape professionals and horticulturists come together when it’s time to improve a landscape and explore how new colors and textures can be incorporated to enhance spring beauty. For this season, your landscapers may suggest bright yellow forsythia bushes for a pop of color in a landscape bed while multi-colored tulip, daffodil, and hyacinth bulbs bloom in the front. 

They can use a bold purple lilac bush to add zing to your driveway entry and double-bloom azaleas for a classic spring bush. There are blooming rhododendron bushes that bring vibrant red against the deep green leaves while other bushes have tiny white flowers. The spring is also the time when peonies bloom. 

Summer 

If you are a rose lover, then your landscaper plan could include summer roses to ensure your favorite colors will be in bloom at this time of year. You can choose rose bushes for a cutting garden, climbing roses for a trellis or pergola, and dwarf rose bushes to add to planters near the front entry. Combined with a textured fern and some white petunia flowers to spill over the edge of the planter, your guests will be greeted with a dazzling display. 

Fall 

Fall colors are so distinctive and are a welcome change from the heat of summer. Your landscapers can create driveway entry beds of purple and yellow pansies with bold cabbages and frothy ornamental grass to transition your front yard to fall. By this time the trees will be turning into brilliant hues of red and gold and these colors can bring a pretty change to your front landscape. Filling some planters by the door with pumpkins and orange and yellow mums can bring the fall feel to your front porch.

Winter 

It might not seem like winter holds much color for the front yard but when your landscapers make use of the deep green needles on an evergreen tree and the blue tones of the spruce, there will still be color peeking up from the snow. They can choose tree varieties that have attractive bark tones in winter while Christmas brings red poinsettias and green wreaths to accent your home. 

Thriving Garden Center

Because your landscapers have access to a thriving 6-acre plant yard and nursery, there will never be a shortage of plants, trees, and flowers to inspire front yard color. Horticulturists carefully nurture every plant and tree to encourage proper growth once they are situated in your landscape. 

The special focus on native species plants means that your landscape will require fewer pesticides and little to no additional feeding from fertilizers. Because many of these plants are native to the Wayland and Newton area, they need less water than non-native plants while they still bring abundant color and beauty to the landscape. An added bonus is that they can attract bees, butterflies, and other natural wildlife to grace your yard and delight you with their visits.

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