8 front garden wall ideas that blend style and practicality

front garden with dry stone wall, black gate, gravel and corten steel planters
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As well as addressing practical considerations like privacy, security and defining boundaries, front garden wall ideas can be used to add a stylish design feature to your property. Combined with other landscaping ideas such as paving, planting and gravel this will help to boost kerb appeal.

When deciding what style of garden wall works best for your front garden remember that a coherent design throughout the whole space is everything. Your preferred idea should work with the exterior of the house too. If you're planning a complete front garden redesign this is easily achievable as you're starting from scratch.

Steven Walley
Steven Walley

Steven Walley is Managing Director of landscape paving suppliers London Stone. He set up the company with his two brothers in 2006 after a career as a hard landscaper, and is now an industry expert on hard landscaping and paving materials. 

Mia Witham
Mia Witham

Mia Witham is an award-winning landscape and garden designer, and the owner of Forma Landscapes. She has a passion for plants and works both in the UK and abroad on a wide range of projects. Mia seeks inspiration from nature where she studies plant communities, the shapes and forms of plants, and how they combine.

Karen McClure
Karen McClure

Karen McClure has successfully grown KMGD from her passion for the landscaping industry. She is a fully accredited member of the Society of Garden and Landscape Designers (SGLD). The driving force behind KMGD, Karen continues to learn, develop and grow her company, to provide clients with the best garden designs.

Catriona Robotham
Catriona Rowbotham

Blending her architectural expertise with a passion for gardening, Catriona Rowbotham's design journey began with Gaia Architects Scotland. Later she was inspired by her time with Dominique Perrault in Paris, and her work for leading architectural design practices in London. Seeing firsthand the demand for garden design through her architectural projects, she trained at The English Gardening School, and her career pivot became final after winning a public courtyard design competition in 2021.

Susan Young
Susan Young

Susan trained in horticulture and design with Writtle College at Shuttleworth, holds the Royal Horticultural Society’s Diploma with a Commendation, is a member of the Professional Gardeners’ Guild, and takes CPD with the Society of Garden Designers. Susan worked as a gardener at Tofte Manor in Bedfordshire, and since 2007 has worked as a gardener at Cranford Hall in Northamptonshire.

Sarah Wilson
Garden writer

Lifestyle journalist Sarah Wilson writes about flowers, plants, garden design and gardening trends for Homes & Gardens. She has studied introductory garden and landscape design and floristry, and also has an RHS Level 2 qualification in the Principles of Plant Growth and Development. She is a regular contributor to Homes & Gardens and Livingetc. She has also written for Real Homes, Modern Gardens, Country Living, and Country Homes & Interiors magazines. Her first job was at Elle magazine, during which time a trip to the beautiful La Colombe d'Or in St-Paul-de-Vence led to an interest in writing about all things botanical. Later as lifestyle editor of Country Homes & Interiors, she loved the captivating country gardens that were regularly featured.