5 Curb Appeal Mistakes to Avoid for a Welcoming Home

[@SylvanFosters]

3:15 the sketch shown here is very helpful. However, before anyone installs shrubs to the side of the front door as shown here I recommend they also consider safety tips around your home. It is recommended to not have plants near your front door that you can’t see over (so no one could be concealed behind them while you are trying to get into or get out of your home).

[@Jecht1221]

The high maintenance picture was the best looking. I understand your point of it taking a lot of time and effort. But some people love that.

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Yep. It's a beautiful garden just not a great idea for a beginner or someone looking for low maintenence

[@ninabooker2904]

Very good advice and I appreciate that your blouse is a flower garden pattern, very appropriate for a gardener. 😃🌺🌻

[@user-hm5zb1qn6g]

excellent tips. It's amazing how many homeowners forget about Tip 5 and end up with flat, dull winter yards,

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Very true! Glad it was helpful 😊

[@karenlombardi8242]

Well, I failed on the scale, number of plants, and simplicity. Our house sits at a funny angle on 6 acres of nothing. In addition, we are dodging overhead obstacles, water pipes from the street and septic in the back. So in the end, our landscaping looks lopsided now … until it all fills in. But we love putting it together, bed by bed, Learning as we grow in a much different zone.

[@loug8186]

This is so good! Some foundational aspects that really make a difference.

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Glad it was helpful 😊

[@michaeljonesdougherty.209]

❤ Amy all your videos are great I like the ones for cottage style & I always look at other curb appeal sometimes I say wow they know what to do other I say wow not knowing is everything. I always redo the landscape on homes when I walk or ride by.

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Haha I redo the landscape on other people's homes when I walk by too 😊

[@adrabruzzese7610]

Great video! Thanks Amy.

[@mybestideas1]

I ran into this video searching to what height I need to cut my lillies that are on the sides of the building. Now they are reaching the roof (raised ranch so it is 1.5 levels) so 2/3rds means cutting quite a bit but it makes sense. I may have overdone my front yard where I planted in an arch white hydrangeas, which are supposed to be hedge (now just 2nd year in, so they are just 2-3 feet, need to reach 5 at 5 years). And like in the eye of that arch I planted Vanilla-Strawberry hydrangea which I'll train in the tree. Lots of plants and I hope that at year 5 they'll make sense. In the background of those hydrangesas, against the house, I have hostas, land ilies, and in-between the hydrangeas I'm planting alium gigantico, so the spring will start with the purple colour, turning pink in September (zone 5B). Also want to replace the front grass with creeping thyme. Thank you! Subscribed :)

[@ChristopherJohnsonArtist]

There are deciduous trees in tropical climates as well which usually drop their leaves during the dry season where there is a summer monsoon. It just isn't as noticeable since the season is shorter, but still important to take into consideration for January and February.

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Great point. Thanks for sharing!

[@jkaravis]

This is awesome!

[@patriciaterry5539]

New subscriber here! Awesome info! Thank you!

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Yay! Welcome! Thank you 😊

[@GeorgeLoch]

I need to move some of my plants as I didn't plan well for their size and shape. My coneflowers got a lot bigger than I expected and now I have a coneflower jungle :)

[@maryvalentine6388]

I hear ya on this one.

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Love coneflowers. The more the merrier in my garden 😊

[@Imthaone8888]

Coneflower jungle sounds awesome

[@ElizaGagarin]

How about an English cottage garden at the front yard

[@pattik8335]

Great info! Thanks!

[@SamBaker-z9h]

I agree the last one was the most attractive,

[@jenica9705]

The best ground yards are grass free native gardens. Imagine if we all converted our antiquated lawns to natural habitats for pollinators! I have an entire yard of native pants and shrubs that attract so many bees,butterflies,hummingbirds etc…it’s amazing.

[@Cherrysmith2809]

You must get so much delight from that. 🐝

[@wendymtzc]

Nah, some of us need a natural habitat for rambunctious children as well 😁, I have 5

[@theropesofrenovation]

I don't have a front door. Mine is on the side. So aggravating!

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Hmm. Maybe you can add some planters or an arbor to the start of the path so it's clear where to go?

[@Cherrysmith2809]

Same here. I think I will make more of an effort to designate the path, as you suggest.

[@theropesofrenovation]

@@PrettyPurpleDoor True

[@gamera2020]

The "high maintenance" image was probably the only one I liked if I'm honest.

[@morphinegirl3446]

Exactly!! she should have known most of all those plants were perrenials!

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

I did know they were perennials? What makes you think I didn't? It was an example of something higher maintenance...

[@TheEnchantedWoodnymph1111]

Well I missed on two of those points. Too many plants and keeping it simple🫣

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Hehehe that's ok. I've been there too! 💜

[@maureenmccrackin6933]

I'm with you. I like a variety of plants with a cheerful riot of colour and textures. Over the last 30+ years I have created a beautiful garden that I am pleased to share with others. I'm happy to say that my family and neighbours appreciate my efforts.

[@Criminaljustice79]

@@maureenmccrackin6933totally agree.

[@markmooney3585]

Love your videos, Amy! My issue is that I have TWO front doors! :(

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

Emphasize ONE of them. Paint the other one to blend in with the house so there's no confusion 😊

[@phuongphan-mcmanamna3781]

Put a wreath on the main door. Also containers. And mat at main door.

[@Trenpace]

Mass plant Japanese maples and conifers

[@wheaties1435]

I have to chuckle…”using too many plants…” have you SEEN Garden Answers…😮😂…to each his own I guess….

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

I have seen Laura's channel, garden answer. She has a great eye for design. And she definitely plants in drifts.

[@wendymtzc]

That’s a bad example, she definitely has an eye for garden design

[@morphinegirl3446]

The 'nestle the house' pic is horrid...first thing I'd cut down are all 3 of those overgrown trees blocking the door and the windows! ugh! Very poor placement of a bush that they should have known was going to get too tall smh

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

I'm sure it was just the angle the photo was taken from. Relax 😊

[@CPAndy-x5x]

Planting too close to the house/failure to take the mature size of the plant into consideration. You'll just have to pull it out in a few years, wasting your money and effort.

[@SashaFierce-jk3bxxx58]

Plants GROW, so they won't stay the size they were when you purchased them.

[@gameboyinc4694]

Evergreens are so 2020 cant stand those

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

To each his own I guess. I can't stand looking at a house with a bunch of sticks in front of it for half the year and no actual structure to the design 😊

[@kimjohnson5717]

Me too I just removed 4 of them that where placed near the front door by the previous owner. I did replace with flowers and shrubs so I still have color during the winter months

[@gameboyinc4694]

@PrettyPurpleDoor I'm in Southeast NC so it's sticks 3 months out the year lol. Makes you miss them then fall in love all over again. God I miss deployments😂

[@PrettyPurpleDoor]

You must live somewhere warm if you have flowers throughout the winter.

[@kimjohnson5717]

@@PrettyPurpleDoor no my flowers are Perennials so some stay green but my shrubs in the winter stay green and get red tips which are pretty. I'm just not a fan of evergreen trees