The entrance to your house creates that all-important first impression when visitors arrive, so why not use plants around your front door to enhance curb appeal and welcome you back home? There are so many plants for outside a front door to suit all house and garden styles from geometrical topiary to frame a formal entrance, to ferns, heucheras and hostas for shady front porches, and elegant displays of fragrant summer perennials and colourful annuals to create the perfect cottage garden look.

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Add plants to borders and beds near the front door, or train climbers up the house wall, to add interest to your entranceway. In courtyard front gardens or houses with little space outside the front door, use window boxes, hanging baskets and containers to create fabulous seasonal displays.

And if you have containers in a sunny spot outside the front door, why not plant white clover to spill over the edges and soften the planting? Not only will a variety like Trifolium repens ‘Purpurescens Quadrifolium’ look beautiful with its eye-catching chocolate leaves with green margins, but the foliage is mostly four-leaved, so it will hopefully bring you and your visitors good luck!

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