Do you have a front garden?

Yes, my front garden is small but traditional. It has a lawn and surrounding borders, with flowers and shrubs. I don't have a driveway - I have steps. My garage is accessed from the street at the back of my house.

Yes I have a front garden layed to gravel and bordered with a hedge and flower beds. We applied for a dropped curb but were turned down despite half the street already having dropped curbs. The reason we were given was that there had to be enough space in the garden to drive in, turn round, and drive out again - but this requirement was obviously not in force when all the other houses had their miniscule driveways made.

We do now - didn't at the last place.

The living room in our current house faces the front, so having a front garden was quite important. I'd hate it if the room used for relaxing had no plants and trees viewable from the window.

We have a front garden.


But we also have a large parking area and a lot of concreted area. The mitigation of this impact is increasing but two fold....firstly all surface water is collected and stored in a reservoir. This is used for irrigation through dryer months, but occasionally just has to be drained off if high rain fall ). Secondly we mitigate the concrete/ hard landscape areas with vertical planting planters and less aggressive weeding. We hope to have considerable areas of the vertical space covered by suitable climbers eventually. Some working areas need to be hard surface, but its still possible to soften impact.