Add A Punch of Color to Your Front Stoop Or Garden

Spring is such a fun season for so many reasons.  The weather is gorgeous, the landscape awakens, and it's a perfect time for planting everything from trees to vegetables.  It's also a great time to add some punches of color to your front stoop or garden.  Here are three planters I've recently planted and enjoy looking at every day. 

This first one is one of a pair that I have flanking my front stoop.  I adore daffodils and don't often see them in Texas.

This second planter is also one of a pair.  I planted these outside of the front doors of my sons' school.

This last one is probably my favorite, mainly because of the brilliant blue of the planter, but also because of the explosion of complimentary colors.  It sits on the deck of my backyard.

Try your hand at it - just stop by your local Lowes or Home Depot, buy a big planter, choose blooming plants that look nice together and are appropriate for the amount of sun they'll get, fill the planter with garden soil (drench it with water before adding the plants), arrange the plants, fill in between them with more soil, then give the whole thing another good soak with the garden hose.  Voila!  Instant beauty in the garden or on your front stoop.