Inspiration for a desert look midcentury front yard driveway for spring in Los Angeles.

Bighorn Palm Desert modern architectural home for luxury living

Bighorn Palm Desert modern architectural home for luxury living. Photo by William MacCollum.
This is an example of an expansive and desert look modern front yard full sun xeriscape in Los Angeles with gravel.

Fountain Hills Landscape Project

Shearon Design Collective

This Fountain Hills home needed a new landscape design to match its stunning hillside footprint. New plants, hardscape, and landscape lighting allowed this corner home to shine!

Wooten Backyard Living

Native Edge Landscape

These homeowners were looking to up their hosting game by modernizing their property to create the ultimate entertainment space. A custom outdoor kitchen was added with a top of the line Delta Heat grill and a special nook for a Big Green Egg. Flagstone was added to create asymmetrical walkways throughout the yard that extended into a ring around the fire pit. Four rectangular trellises were added along the fence and shed, with an all metal pergola located at the back of the pool. This unique structure immediately draws the eye and adds a playful, artistic element to the rest of the space. The use of various sized rocks, gravel, and flagstone give a rough texture that creates a symbiosis with the metalwork. Silver Falls Dichondra creates a beautiful contrast to the rocks and can be found all over the property along with various other grasses, ferns, and agave. A large area of gravel rests on the side of the house, giving the client room to park a recreational vehicle. In front, a privacy fence was added along one of the property lines, leading into a drought resistant, eco-friendly section of yard. This fence, coupled with a giant boulder, doubles as a safety precaution in case drivers miss the turn and run into their lawn. This updated landscaping adds an effortless flow for guests to move from the front yard to the back while creating a very open, welcoming feel to all who enter.

Southwestern Landscape

Inspiration for a mid-sized and desert look front yard full sun garden in San Diego with gravel.

Desert Highlands

Pascale Land Design

A mediterranean look in the desert with lantana added for color and softness. Pascale Sucato
Photo of a desert look front yard xeriscape in Phoenix.

desierto curvazon

Bianchi Design

Design ideas for a mid-sized and desert look front yard xeriscape in Phoenix with gravel.

Modern Northwest Bend

Blooming Desert

This modern space offers maximum outdoor living for the homeowners with minimum maintenance with the use of 2' x 2' paver slabs, Mexican Beach Pebble and River Rock Mulch, drought tolerant plant material, drip irrigation and synthetic lawn.

Piper Place, Yorba Linda

Solscapes

Design ideas for a mid-sized and desert look front yard full sun xeriscape in Orange County with gravel.

Black House (Steinman Renovation)

Spry Architecture

Front entry path from street.
Design ideas for a desert look front yard xeriscape in Phoenix.

Conscious Stream Scape 2 Year Update - Silverlake

Ketti Kupper Conscious Life Design

Photo by Ketti Kupper
Inspiration for a small and desert look contemporary front yard full sun xeriscape in Los Angeles.

Xeric Modern

Califia Ecodesign

Succulent frontyard garden with bocci ball court (in progress). Entry walkway, bench and loads of aeoniums, senecios, aloes, echeverias and acacias. Plus a few ulta-low-water mediterranean and California natives too.

Cash for Grass!

Greenbee Landscape, Inc.

We transform thirsty unnatractive lawns into colorful, interesting presentations of your property. Even better, the inner beauty of our work is that you will work less, fertilize less, water less, worry less and pay less every month for your beautiful new landscape.

Red Sand

Coy Land Techs

Our team helped design and construct a modern front yard that would allow the homeowner to go out of two for weeks at a time without worrying about maintenance. The project included 5 tons of dirt removal, drip irrigation, decomposed granite, over 100 plants, two toned stained concrete, red sand, mulch, decorative rocks.

Loch Lomond Road Residence

S&S Landscape, Inc.

This is an example of a desert look front yard garden in Other.

Cooking Oasis

Arcadian Landscape

Design ideas for a mid-sized and desert look beach style front yard partial sun xeriscape in San Diego with concrete pavers.

Maison contemporaine et son jardin méditerranéen.

Nathalie JEANNE - Conceptrice de jardin

maison moderne avec ses gros sujets de variétés méditerranéennes.
Inspiration for a large and desert look modern front yard full sun garden in Other with decking.

Fountain Hills Landscape Project

Shearon Design Collective

This Fountain Hills home needed a new landscape design to match its stunning hillside footprint. New plants, hardscape, and landscape lighting allowed this corner home to shine!

Barker Way, Placentia 2

Solscapes

Combining a limited use of artificial turf on the parkway and side of driveway with landscaping dominated by colorful succulents, the blue flowers of Buddleia and Alogyne, and the emerald of sago palms, continues to delight the customer.

California Spanish Ranch

Giffin & Crane General Contractors, Inc.

Landscaping and exterior.
Inspiration for a desert look mediterranean front yard garden in Santa Barbara.

Desert Look Front Yard Garden Design Ideas

Get Inspired by Gardens on Houzz

A lot of the time when you get home from a long day at work, all you want to do is wind down. Where better to do this than in your very own garden at home? If you do it right, a great garden design can send you right into holiday mode. But where to start? There’s so many styles to choose from when it comes to garden design. Whether you want to create a tropical, modern, contemporary, beach style or country garden - or something else entirely - the large garden image gallery on Houzz has got you covered. Get inspired and collect your ideas to narrow down your desired garden style and features.

How to Create a Garden for Your Home

Depending on which style you’re going for, be sure to know what makes a garden and if it’s appropriate for your climate. You may want to consider adding a deck or other landscaping features, but the plants you choose will mostly dictate your style and what kind of ongoing maintenance is required. Don’t worry if your backyard isn’t very spacious - there are many plants that can thrive even in a small space and allow you to turn your space into a little paradise of your own, regardless of size.

Decide which plants to use

The greenery you choose is critical to your look. For example, if you’re trying to create a tropical garden palm trees and bamboo are your go-to options. Other popular options are golden cane palm trees and fern for ground cover. From there you can add some colour with bright flowers like frangipani, hibiscus or bromeliads. All these are actually quite hardy plants, so once established, your tropical garden is actually quite easy to maintain. Use this structure and apply it to your style. Research which plants you need to set your base for a garden and go from there.

Add some decor

If the plants don’t quite do it for you yet, or if you want to add some extra wow-factor, consider adding some extra features. Even if you can’t accommodate a swimming pool, hot tub or pond, you could look at smaller water features. Simple rocks can also have a great effect, while statues and gnomes will add some extra character. Don’t forget to add some furniture so you have a nice place to sit and enjoy your garden!

Need some help?

Once you know what you want your garden to look like, it may be hard to make it a reality on your own. If that is the case for you, consider consulting a professional to help you with your garden design. Every photo you find on Houzz will lead you to the local pro that did the job, so you won’t have a problem picking the perfect person to help! Whether you need a gardener in Brisbane, a landscape architect in Melbourne or a fireplace installer in Sydney, you can be sure to find one on Houzz.