Make Caribbean curb appeal with a redesign of the forecourt that brings the best of the tropics to your door. Use pots and wooden decks, decorative stones to meander "rivers" along the borders of flower gardens and all kinds of green and colorful plant that will grow in your climate to turn your yard into a rainbow of a jungle.
Palm Tree Island
If you are fortunate enough to live in a tropical or subtropical climate, plant some palm trees in the courtyard and enjoy the sound of their leaves in the breeze. Replacing a cement walk with a wooden deck that provides multilevel "shelves" of large ceramic pots containing exotic plants such as ginger and roses. Cover edge with hibiscus bushes that produce flowers throughout the year for a bright home reception. Put a couple of chairs painted on the upper deck level, making the courtyard becomes an extra yard. Canvas awning can accommodate from too much sun or a shower in the afternoon.
Tropical welcome
Start the tropical trip to your door in the door. The Commission on a pair of wooden garden gates to the front of the property to cross the fence. Keep everything light and open by using a motif of tropical plants, banana leaves or the leaves of a plant distinctive landscape like ginger - like stuffing for door frames. Paint the door a soft, tropical color - sage green or pink faded melt or melon to accentuate the palette of colors stucco house. Visitors will feel the tropical atmosphere as soon as they approach their property. Plant flowering vines along the rest of the fence, but keep the door of plants to show botanical design.
Little surprises
Landscaping is more than plants, and the right accessories can turn your front yard into a Hawaiian retreat or sanctuary of the mysterious jungle. In the midst of potted ornamental grasses and shrubs of tropical flowers, put a bubbling fountain autonomous fat in a pot pottery. A small pump with a source tap head fits inside the pot in a spill of smooth stones that almost fills the pot. The power cord snake on the edge of the pot and hide by plants. No need for a water tank because the bubbler create a musical disturbance in the water surface in the pot. A vegetation around the fountain, add a pedestal Asian style with a rustic ceramic lantern holding a candle or electric or sunlamp.
Profusion of flowers
Overwhelm the entrance to your home with exotic flowers and the coming and going through a jungle garden. Curved edge of a walkway from the sidewalk to the front door with Black River rocks and a profusion of flowers and tropical vegetation. Plant ferns and tree ferns, bright green moss and sedums, large plants like bromeliads and oriental lilies and dahlias. Hide a soaker hose on river rocks and connected to a timer for daily misting jungle. Next to the front door, build a terrace of sustainable exotic wood like ipe. Adding a pergola roof bamboo stalks up so you can hang the entrance with lengths of material like silk sari or mosquito net to save encounters with buzzing pests. Epiphytic orchids can hang from bamboo poles or hooks to the vertical support poles. Add a pair of rattan chairs in the inbox will provide a refuge for the night to enjoy the exotic garden.
