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





