While DH was tearing apart the dining room (see my "dining room progress" thread), I was out planting flowers/plants in pots
Take a look at the results:
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This large urn sits on the landing of my front stairs.
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These are my two lovely window boxes... DH hasn't attached them to the window yet (but he held it up for me so everyone could see how terrific they're going to look) - this is the dining room window and we're waiting until the new window is installed before we hang the baskets.
Finally... take a look at the pots we've put at the foot of each of the posts to our front deck:
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I've got a lot of weeding to do still... but I can't wait until everything flowers (the plant in the pot above is a climbing rose and it already has buds)!!!
But wait... did anyone notice?!
I've started painting the house!!!!
There's still much to do, but I just didn't want to grow climbing plants on the deck posts when I plan on painting... here's what the deck posts looked like a week ago:
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On the deck... I still have to paint the railing... I've started with the spindles in a BM Butter Cream (it's hard to see, but maybe you can see the different spindle colour in the window box pic above)... the railing itself will be black. The windows will be white and the exterior walls will be Hampshire Gray. I think it's going to look great!
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It looks very nice
GREAT JOB
Thanks NS :)
I've only just started with the painting... I'm really looking forward to painting the walls Hampshire Grey. It's going to look fantastic, I just know it!
The ivy plant was one I purchased last year. Somehow it survived the winter (it stayed out on the deck) and even grew!! I split it in two and placed the two on either side of the tall grass. It really filled things out and made the planter look like it's been there for ever :D
Thanks for everyone's positive remarks!
Hi Tangatori, I love the colour you chose for the exterior; your planters look wonderful!! How many ivy's did you plant in the pot on the deck?? They look so full & long!
You have been busy. I really like the new paint and the plants are going to really stand out now against it. Those planters will look so cute on your windows. Really nice.
I have to get out and weed too. It seems like everything from grass to weeds grew 6" overnight so time to finally fire up the mower and get out the weed tool.
Vickie ....You are one busy lady...everything looks great. The weather has not been great here ...holding off the planting til it warms up. :)