Keep your front yard tidy and welcoming with these low-maintenance, compact, deer-resistant landscaping plants.

A magnet for insects, these tough, thorny shrubs are covered with small, white or pink tinged ... English holly A festive favorite, common holly or Ilex aquifolium is a great choice for training ...

Planting a diversity of shrubs, climbers and small trees, he adds, can help boost biodiversity. October to April is prime planting time, so have your spade at the ready. Urban gardens and balconies ...

Additional evergreens like yew, holly and common beech which holds onto its autumn leaves mean that there's always something to see. Choose a mixture of hedging trees and shrubs; birch ...

He champions the Common or Cherry ... "This is a plant that suffers from few pests and diseases and is easy to grow in a wide range of soil types. Laurel hedge plants come in a variety of sizes ...