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Landscaping Around A Lamp Post

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See my landscaping around a lamp post tips and tricks to blend a lamp post into the front of your home and improve it’s appearance! Lamp posts tend to stick out like a sore thumb and look bare – especially if they are in the front yard – but there are ways to garden around it by adding flowers and plants to increase your home’s curb appeal! 

See my landscaping around a lamp post tips and tricks to blend a lamp post into the front of your home and improve it's appearance! Lamp posts tend to stick out like a sore thumb and look bare - especially if they are in the front yard - but there are ways to garden around it by adding flowers and plants to increase your home's curb appeal! 

Landscaping Around A Lamp Post

Lamp posts are important for lighting pathways and for safety – especially at the front of your home. But their tall black poles can look bare and cold as well as detract from the overall look of your home.

This is the solution! By adding a flower bed filled with strategic species of flowers and plants you can absolutely improve a lamp post’s looks and blend it into your yard!

Here’s what we did to camouflage our lamp post and make it look as beautiful as possible.

How to DISGUISE a lamp post! These gardening and landscape ideas are amazing!

We have a flower bed that goes all the way around the lamp post. It’s a pie shape with the lamp post off center. This pie shaped flower bed  adds a beautiful organic curvy look to the straight lines of the post.

The plants and flowers that we added are both tall and colorful – so they hide the base of the lamp post perfectly and make it look beautiful!

The flower garden is big enough to really detract from the lamp post itself.

We used  plants that have showy flowers and leaves in cool colors: blue and purple. These cool flower and leaf colors look stunning with our home’s tan siding, brown roof and brown front door (see our front door color here!)

How to camouflage a lamp post in the front yard! See the plants and flowers that will help blend a lamp post into the look of your home.

We added:

8 Blue Iris (they aren’t in bloom any longer unfortunately!) – they are to the right of the lamp post

2 purple Salvia plants – one on each side of the lamp post so that the flowers envelope the post

1 White Coneflower – that’s the tall one in the front – it hasn’t bloomed yet!

1 Heuchera Coral Bells – at the far left of the flower bed.

1 Blue Oat Grass-the spikey plant at the far right of the flower bed.

I highly recommend planting salvia at the base of the lamp post – the tall spiky flowers look stunning around the pole – with a breeze they wave and bend beautifully!See how to use Purple salvia- a beautiful flowering perennial plant - to landscape around a lamp post to beautify the front of the home.

All of these plants give color and texture to the lamp post and add beautiful curves to the straight lamp posts shape!

Hostas:

See the hosta plants used in this front yard flower bed to disguise an ugly lamp post.

Salvia attracts pollinators like butterflies and bees!

Attract butterflies and bees to your yard with salvia!

Doesn’t our flower bed really improve the looks of the lamp post?How to add curb appeal to a lamp post and blend it into the yard. See the amazing landscaping ideas and tips!

What a huge difference landscaping around a lamp post can do for your curb appeal!

See the landscaping ideas can add curb appeal to your home!

Our lamp post lantern needs to be replaced since the finish is starting to deteriorate. This is the one I’m looking at – I really love the hammered glass! Do you think it works with our home? 

How to create a flower bed around a lamp post to disguise it and pretty it up!

I hope you enjoyed my gardening ideas and tips!

Do you have any other ideas on how to hide a lamp post? Please share in the comments below – I’d love to hear them!

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Learn helpful landscaping tips and tricks to hide a lamp post in the front yard. See the types of plants and flowers used to create a flower bed that adds curb appeal!

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Filed Under: Gardening, Summer Tagged With: front yard, gardening, lamp post, landscaping, summer

heatherHeather is a Designer, True Color Expert® and proud military wife at Setting For Four Interiors. Heather offers online Interior Design and Paint Color Services. See all of our design tips & tricks on the blog and follow us on Instagram for more design and decor inspiration!

Comments

  1. Marty Oravetz says

    July 5, 2017 at 9:33 am

    Your home is so pretty and the landscaping is stunning.

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    • heather says

      July 5, 2017 at 11:43 am

      Thank you so much Marty for your sweet compliments! I hope you are enjoying summer!! xo Heather

      Reply
  2. Roseann Squire says

    July 5, 2017 at 9:47 am

    i really like the hammered glass lamp you are considering. i am all about hammered everything these days- metals, glass – i love the look.

    Reply
    • heather says

      July 5, 2017 at 11:43 am

      Thank you Roseann!! I love the hammered look too!!

      Reply
  3. Cecile says

    July 5, 2017 at 11:58 am

    Ah…. your lovely garden made me miss the beautiful gardens I ‘left behind’ when I sold my farmhouse in Massachusetts this spring.
    Don’t you just LOVE salvia, Russian sage, delphinium, lilac, lobelia, lavender etc. etc . etc!!??
    I had a garden one time – again, which I had to leave behind,, that had a gorgeous Great Blue Lobelia. It took me a good while to find another one . And the lobelia was doing so well at my farmhouse… But, the new owners are thrilled with the gardens – so that’s a good thing!

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    • heather says

      July 11, 2017 at 10:20 am

      Oh I feel your pain about leaving gorgeous gardens behind Cecile!! It’s hard isn’t it? As a military wife – I’ve left many gardens behind…but it’s allowed me to try new gardening ideas at my new homes too! 🙂 Your Mass. gardens sound beautiful!

      Reply
  4. Rebecca says

    July 6, 2017 at 11:15 pm

    So pretty and I like the light post you’re considering.

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    • heather says

      July 11, 2017 at 10:21 am

      Thank you Rebecca for your compliments and for visiting!! 🙂 xo Heather

      Reply
  5. Ivory says

    May 2, 2018 at 6:57 pm

    You style and designers taste is so stunning, until you do not need advice from anyone, instead we need your advice. You always nails it!

    Reply
  6. molly says

    March 15, 2019 at 9:02 am

    the tall salvia is so perfect at the pole base, ty, Im inspired to try this myself instead of hiring the job out!

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    • heather says

      March 16, 2019 at 1:28 pm

      Thank you for the lovely compliment!! I’m glad you like these gardening ideas!! 🙂

      Reply
  7. Birdie Noble says

    May 9, 2020 at 6:36 am

    Wow! this is so pretty. Salvia’s attraction with a lamp post is a wonderful look. I think this is best for my front yard landscape.

    Reply
    • heather says

      May 11, 2020 at 10:00 am

      I’m so glad you like it! Salvia is such a beautiful landscaping plant!

      Reply

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