Do you have large pots by your front door?

[spk926]

Something like this?



What do you put inside? I don't want to spend $$ every season changing the contents out. I also want something that will stay alive. I don't exactly have a green thumb. I found this on Pinterest but does fake look too weird?

Here's the front of my house. I'm going to get 2 large black pots to put on either side of the stoop. I have no clue what goes inside. Help me please! (the bow is covering my address)

[atarianna]

At my front door I have one pot with a large (Kimberly queen) fern since I always kill the more traditional kind.

At the entrance to our mud room, I have two pots with a spike in the middle, some trailing greens (sweet potato vine etc) and some others that will grow vertically. They are kind of bare now but fill in nicely through the summer.

[anna7602]

I thought this was going to be some kind of "what weird things do you believe in" question. I was thinking inside my front door, not outside.

Anyway, not applicable. My building has some stone planters in front with spring flowers (so they're dry and empty all winter). But not even close to this size.

[spk926]

Apr 27, 2015 21:34:15 GMT -5 @mrswindycity said:

Yep, we have hydrangeas.

Potted? Interesting! They don't get too big? I thought they were a large bush and didn't know they could be potted. I bet that looks really nice.

[shellbear09]

We plant flowers in ours a couple times a year

[DarcyLongfellow]

Yep -- Birds of Paradise. But we're a little too far north for them (in North Florida), so we have to cover them any night that it gets below freezing, and they've never bloomed.

At our old house we had Bougainvillea with some annuals around the base, and I think that may be more cold hardy? We never covered it, and it did great.

[jamer]

Is it mostly shaded or sunny? I have a shaded front door and have a dwarf hinoki cypress and hostas. Annuals I use impatiens.

[Deleted]

Yes. They are full of dirt because I never remember to water flowers I plant in them.

[lilac05]

Last year, I did vinca vines, wave petunias, regular petunias, and something else that was taller. They filled in really well...even the FedEx and UPS guys commented on them. They just took a little watering when we hadn't gotten any rain in awhile.

[magpie]

I had some really nice hydrangeas in (cheap/plastic) pots on my front porch and someone stole them!  I'm still mad!

Now I have asparagus ferns and a big sago palm that's been going for 5+ years.  This is on a shady porch with automatic/drip irrigation, so it takes very little/no effort on my part.

[steph196]

We have a large pot filled with succulents. 

[cece]

We have large pots that we fill with wandering Jews. They don't flower, but are pretty easy to take care of and look really nice.

[aspentosh]

We do, but I have to plant new stuff each year.

The saying is you want "thriller, spiller and filler". So something that shoots up (ex: ferns) spiller (ex: a vine or flower that grows over the edge and spills down) and filler (ex: begonia).

[thebreakfastclub]

I get something that comes in a plastic hanging basket from Lowe's or Home Depot. Then I cut the basket open and pot the plants. I think I paid $8 each for plants last year, and they bloomed through fall.

[auntie]

Lowe's has "pot filler" mixes this time of year. They're pretty inexpensive and you just drop them in the pots or else I support the local scouts who sell plants to raise money for their Eagle projects.

I usually do some sort of colorful annuals (geraniums, sweetpotato vine, petunias, etc) once the threat of frost is past, then I switch it out for mums in the fall. Some years I do a decorative cabbage/kale and petunias thing for the winter. Petunias are a cool weather plant and will go dormant in the heat; they'll perk up in the fall but are pretty hideous over the summer.

[bunch]

Lol, yes, I have one. It's filled with outdoor kid toys. To be fair, that is why I bought it.

[sunshine608]

Confession- I still have the little Christmas trees out there. You can barely see the lights and frm the street the look like mini trees because of my porch.

In the Fall I put mums out. I'm at a lost for what to do for Spring and Summer.

[ssmjlm]

I have 2 small pots at the end of our front steps, but I only put them out in spring/summer and just do annuals. I did dahlias this year.

You have nice landscaping up to your house, so I'm not sure you need more with the pots if you don't want to maintain. You could do something else.

[glitzy07]

I saw something on Pinterest yesterday where they put hostas (different colors/types) in the pots, because they always grow back every year. I don't know how you feel about those plants, but that's an easy, cheap option!

[glitzy07]

Also, you're never invited over to my house if that's what yours looks like. Ha.

[nachos]

I usually buy a couple of mixed hanging planters from the local greenhouse and transfer them into the pots by the door. I like how the trailing flowers overflow, and I don't have to coordinate the arrangements.

I'd love to do mums in the fall, but we often don't get more than a week where they wouldn't die.

[spk926]

Apr 28, 2015 7:23:25 GMT -5 ssmjlm said:

You have nice landscaping up to your house, so I'm not sure you need more with the pots if you don't want to maintain. You could do something else.

The old owners had large pots there that stained the concrete. So now I think it looks bad. You can kind of see it in this picture. I feel like I need to put pots there to at least cover the stains and also some more color will look nice.

[karinothing]

I just have impatients now since it is mostly shade. Not sure they will make it in this must shade though. I do want to do the more layered look sometime (spike, bloom, and vine), but i need to get more of a feel for what works with the light we get

[Marmee]

Yes, I have dead mums from last Fall...lol. I will replant with something.

[jenn248]

I do (although I need to replace it with a nicer pot). I don't do anything fancy - I have petunias or vinca in the summer, and pansies in the fall/spring (they're in there all winter, too, they just don't look terribly nice...).

[loreleigilmore]

we do lavender and petunias. It's pretty. Lavender goes in the middle since it grows high.

[cobber06]

We put large pots out in the spring/summer. We typically plant wave petunias because they are relatively inexpensive and hardy.