Front yard

On a residential area, a front yard (United States, Canada, Australia) or front garden (United Kingdom, Europe) is the portion of land between the street and the front of the house.^[1] If it is covered in grass, it may be referred to as a front lawn. The area behind the house, usually more private, is the back yard or back garden. Yard and garden share an etymology and have overlapping meanings.

In North America, front yards, which normally include considerable driveway and parking space, tend to be mostly lawn even when large,^{[citation needed]} but in Europe they are often treated as a flower garden and may be heavily planted.^{[citation needed]} In North American suburbia, there may be no physical barriers marking the front and sides of the plot, which would be very unusual in Europe,^{[citation needed]} where there are generally walls, fences or hedges on three sides of the garden.^{[citation needed]}