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No. 101 Landscaping · Colonial

Colonial Front Yard with Brick Walkway

At night, a brick path with path lights leads through a front yard with manicured boxwood hedges toward a Georgian colonial brick home featuring black shutters and accent landscape lighting.

Design notes

Colonial design is symmetry and restraint. Look for a central axis from the back door, matched beds and hedges either side, bluestone or brick terraces with tight joints, and white or black picket and post-and-rail fences. Planting is disciplined — boxwood, hydrangea, holly, dogwood and shade trees — and furniture is classic: teak benches, Windsor chairs, a market umbrella. Georgian brick, clapboard and shingle houses all suit it.

What to look for

  • Three layers: canopy, shrubs, groundcover
  • How hardscape and planting share the edges
  • Plants suited to the climate, not just the photo
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