Boost Your Home’s Curb Appeal by Adding Elegant Landscaping Plants
A beautifully designed landscape enhances curb appeal and creates a sense of refinement, prestige, and beauty. The right plants can make your home's landscape look professionally designed and more expensive, setting the stage for an estate-like landscape with ambiance that lasts year-round.
Browse this list of premium trees, shrubs, and perennials that bring structure, color, and sophistication to outdoor spaces. Let these luxury landscaping plants maximize your home’s look whether you’re framing an elegant entryway or enhancing your garden beds.
Boxwood (Buxus) – The Foundation of a Luxury Landscape
A hallmark of high-end gardens, boxwood is the ultimate architectural plant, used for formal hedges, sculpted topiaries, and estate-style borders. Whether clipped into clean geometric shapes or left in soft, rounded mounds, boxwood creates a polished, European-inspired look.
Customer’s Favorite Variety:
- ‘Green Velvet’ Boxwood – A dense, evergreen variety, ideal for structured plantings or low hedges.
Where to Use: Framing pathways, lining garden beds, or as elegant foundation plantings.
Hydrangea – The Classic Statement Shrub
Hydrangeas are synonymous with luxury landscapes, adding billowing clusters of blooms that change color throughout the seasons. They thrive in formal and cottage gardens alike, offering timeless beauty and effortless elegance.
Customer’s Favorite Varieties:
- ‘Incrediball’ Hydrangea – A modern twist on the classic Annabelle, with massive, long-lasting white blooms.
- ‘Pinky Winky’ Prime™ Hydrangea – Unique, cone-shaped flowers that transition from white to rich pink, creating a multi-season display.
Where to Use: Along entryways, as foundation plantings, or in lush garden borders.
Thuja (Arborvitae) – The Ultimate Privacy Screen
For tall, stately elegance, arborvitae provides year-round greenery and estate-like structure. These evergreens are perfect for framing driveways, lining long walkways, or creating private garden walls.
Customer’s Favorite Varieties:
- ‘Green Giant’ Arborvitae – A fast-growing variety, ideal for grand hedging and privacy screens.
- ‘Junior Giant’ Arborvitae – A smaller, refined version with the same luxurious appeal.
Where to Use: As a backdrop for garden beds, along fences, or to define grand entrances.
Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum) – The Sculptural Accent Tree
Japanese maples are the epitome of refined landscaping, known for their graceful, semi-weeping structure, delicate-looing leaves, and striking seasonal color. Their sculptural beauty makes them a top choice for high-end gardens.
Customer’s Favorite Varieties:
- ‘Bloodgood’ Japanese Maple – A classic red-leafed variety that holds its color year-round.
- Acer 'Emperor One' – Palmate leaves hold their color all season and with deep red, almost black bark, it maintains visual interest in winter.
Where to Use: As a front yard focal point, near patios, or in Japanese-inspired gardens.
Magnolia – A Symbol of Prestige
With glossy evergreen leaves and showy blooms, magnolias bring Southern charm and grandeur to your landscape. Their large, fragrant flowers make them a stunning choice for elegant properties.
Customer’s Favorite Varieties:
- Magnolia 'Genie' – Spring-to-summer blooms are tulip-shaped and dark maroon, perfect for formal gardens.
- Magnolia Moonglow® – Elegant lemony-scented ivory blossoms are set against a backdrop of glossy dark green leaves, great for cutting.
Where to Use: As a statement tree in front yards, near garden entrances, or along driveways.
Peonies – The Most Opulent Perennial
Peonies symbolize classic beauty, with multi-petaled, ruffled blooms that elicit a romantic feel and an upscale look. Their long lifespan and big, bold flowers make them a popular addition to luxury gardens.
Customer’s Favorite Variety:
- ‘Sarah Bernhardt’ Peony – Soft pink, full blossoms, perfect for elegant borders.
- ‘Karl Rosenfield’ Peony – A deep, rich red variety that adds drama to garden beds.
Where to Use: In formal flower beds, along pathways, or as cut-flower plantings.
Hosta – The Ultimate Shade Garden Staple
Hostas add refined texture and depth to shaded gardens, with large, sculptural leaves in rich greens, blues, and variegated patterns.
Customer’s Favorite Varieties:
- Hosta 'Behemoth' – One of the largest hostas, making a bold architectural statement.
- Hosta 'First Frost'– Blue-green leaves with gold edges, perfect for formal shade gardens.
Where to Use: Under trees, in foundation plantings, or as elegant border accents.
Clematis – The Aristocrat of Climbing Vines
Clematis is a luxurious flowering vine that adds vertical interest and old-world elegance to garden spaces.
Customer’s Favorite Varieties:
- ‘The President’ Clematis – Deep purple blooms for a regal aesthetic.
- ‘Nelly Moser’ Clematis – Soft pink flowers with bold pink stripes, perfect for trellises.
Where to Use: Over arbors, trellises, pergolas, or as a flowering wall accent.
Climbing Roses – The Ultimate Romantic Touch
Climbing roses drape over archways, fences, and trellises, bringing ageless elegance and fragrance to the garden.
Customer’s Favorite Varieties:
- Blaze of Glory – Unusual russet orange blooms maturing to pink tones exude romance and charm.
- Rosa Rise Up Emberays™ – Clusters of big, luscious orange blooms accentuated with a bright yellow eye are long and continuously blooming.
Where to Use: Framing entrances, covering garden structures, or softening stone walls.
How to Design an Elegant Landscape
- Symmetry is key: Balance large architectural plants with structured hedges.
- Layer for depth: Start with statement trees, add perennials, and finish with ground covers.
- Use repetition: Repeating plant varieties creates a cohesive, designer look.
- Choose a refined color palette: Soft greens, whites, and pastels create calm elegance, while deep reds and purples add richness and drama.
Grow Elegant Landscaping Plants
By choosing high-quality plants, you can create a garden that exudes sophistication and estate-level beauty. Try these elegant landscaping plants and transform your outdoor living spaces.
