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Color-filled flower pots {Sprucing up the Outdoors for Spring series}

April 11, 2012

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Today we continue with our “Sprucing up the outdoors for Spring” series.

We talked last week about planting flowers and beautifying your flower beds.  But I also love to have flowers in pots too!  Ok, I pretty much just like flowers anywhere – indoors, outdoors, in pots…

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And I like colorful or color-filled flower pots!  If you don’t have existing pots filled with dirt and are starting from scratch you will need to fill your pots with potting soil.  I had help filling a new pot. Smile

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Even little girls love playing in the dirt. 

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And we had plenty of supervision Smile

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Then you need flowers.  Once again these are the packs you can get for $1.25-1.87 at Wal-mart, Lowes, or Home Depot.  Home Depot even had a sale on them last week for $0.87/6-pack -  too bad I had just bought mine 2 days before Sad smile.

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Then get to planting. 

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And when you are done, don’t forget to water!

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…and clean the dirt off your hands.

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And you have some pretty pots for your front porch!  I would show you them in place but I am planning a big reveal after a few more projects so you will have to wait to see them on my front  porch 🙂

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I did my back deck pots on another day and didn’t have any cute helpers.  By the way I got all of the brown and red pots on 90% clearance at Dollar General at the end of summer one year.  Paid $1-2 for each one.  So look for after-season clearance and stock up for next year. 

These pots had been on the deck all winter so they needed some cleaning out.

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Here they are all cleaned out and the soil turned over.

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And here are my flowers.  I love to use a variety of flowers and some green plants too. Look for 2-3 different type flowers and at least 1 type of green plant. Each pack has six plants in it so if you get four packs of flowers (less than $7 total) you can fill three pots with two of each type of flower which will fill in and grow bigger to fill your pot nicely.

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I divided up all my flowers and just laid them on each pot so I could see if I had enough and was liking the selections.

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Then one by one, I planted all the flowers in each pot.  And watered when done of course!

I love all the colors!  I have a lot of red accents on my deck so I wanted red flowers but loved the pop of yellow and the green/white plants too.  The variegated grass gives them some nice height.  I bought two grass plants last year and they lasted all winter!  So I added two more this year to two more of my larger pots.

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Here you can see all the flowers – red pansies, yellow marigolds, white vinca, variagated white/green plants, and I think the red was a type of dianthuses?   All of these flowers do well in part-full sun which I needed.

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Sneak peek of my little white pot on our coffee table Smile  We built a new deck last year and I have never shared pictures here so look for a big before/after reveal post later in this series.

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Hope that gives you some ideas for planting flowers in pots.  Don’t just stick to one color – vary your colors!  And don’t think you have to buy $10 plants for each pot – buy the cheap packs and bunch them together.

I will be sure to share pictures in a few weeks or later in the summer when these pots have filled out to show you how nice they will look.  (That is, if I can remember to keep them well-watered!)

Have you been planting any flowers yet?  In the ground or in pots?  What is your favorite annual flower to display?

{cj}

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  1. Molly Swaffer says

    April 11, 2012 at 3:16 PM

    You amaze me! They are beautiful and I love how you got the sweet girls helping you! Looking forward to seeing you Friday!

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    • Christina says

      April 15, 2012 at 11:49 PM

      thanks! they loved helping me plant flowers! 🙂 they have to check on them and help water them when they come over each time 😉

      Reply
  2. Terri Betz says

    April 11, 2012 at 7:15 PM

    So lovely! I love your projects! I get to go to the local Farmers Market this Saturday! We don’t get to spend much, but I bet I can get some flowers! Thanks!

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    • Christina says

      April 15, 2012 at 11:49 PM

      yay! you don’t have to spend much to spruce up a little! hope you found some good finds!

      Reply
  3. Rondell says

    April 11, 2012 at 8:42 PM

    I like purple pansies, I always put them in my window boxes! Love your lovely pots and your helpers!

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    • Christina says

      April 15, 2012 at 11:48 PM

      aww – I love my helpers too. 😉 I am hoping my pink pansies do well this year. Sometimes they end up looking wirey looking.

      Reply
  4. john vigliotti says

    July 28, 2017 at 6:40 PM

    Great ideas. My project now(July 28 2017) is to fill 5 large flower pots in zone 7 at my boat club. The board wants inexpensive flowers that last till end of September 2017. Pase help with colorful ideas. Thank You

    Reply

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