| front porch is your initial chance to welcome guests | | | | your springtime porch. |
| and there is no greater way to offer a lively welcome | | | | - Use an old antique chair to hold baskets of flowing |
| than with springtime porch accents. Following a | | | | spring blooms and vines, producing a special plant |
| long-lasting dreary wintertime, bestow a little color to | | | | stand. |
| your porch and supply a warm welcome to everyone | | | | - Pick Out sophisticated greens like cut boxwood |
| who comes to your door. | | | | topiary or fill them full of colorful blooming plants for |
| Springtime Wreath Choices | | | | footed urns exhibited in pairs. Or use a lightly |
| Dress up your front door with a cheerful springtime | | | | distressed fleur-de-lis planter to bestow a bit of Old |
| wreath. Craft stores and home good stores are | | | | World class. |
| overflowing with wreaths in springtime motifs, from | | | | - Ceramic, metallic and concrete ornamental statues |
| bunny rabbits to bright colored eggs to floral | | | | and figurines are waiting for a home on your front |
| ornamentations of every kind. | | | | porch. You'll discover a grand selection of frogs, |
| Or create a wreath that's uniquely "you" by creating | | | | rabbits, bunnies, birds, cats, dogs, and more ready to |
| one yourself. Begin with a grapevine wreath, floral | | | | call your porch home. The number goes on forever. |
| picks, vines and flowers that say spring, and your | | | | - Impart a decorative flag to your porch that |
| choice of accessories and a bow. | | | | welcomes spring with robins and tulips or chicks and |
| Welcoming Antiquated Touches | | | | Easter eggs. A quick online search will expose a great |
| You can make things like antiquated ash bins, water | | | | number of retail merchants merchandising flags for all |
| cans, and old pails or other metallic containers into | | | | seasons. |
| one-of-a-kind spring planters. Give galvanized buckets | | | | - A tricycle or bicycle planter makes old-fashioned |
| a little color by painting the outside in cheerful hues of | | | | panache new once more with baskets that will hold |
| yellow. Any container that will be loaded with live plants | | | | pots of fresh flowers. Mini garden carts are another |
| must have drainage holes, so begin by drilling drain | | | | captivating choice. |
| holes in the bottom of your metal container of choice, | | | | - Bring rural charm that can change with the seasons |
| and then add potting soil and granular fertilizer | | | | by setting up flower boxes beneath your windows or |
| corresponding to package directions. A terrific option | | | | upon a porch railing. |
| for a spring container is the cold-hardy pansy with their | | | | - Ladders and plant stands let you exhibit pots of |
| bright little "faces" that appear to lend sunniness to | | | | flowers in bloom, smaller statues or a collection of |
| even the grimmest wet day. When the weather starts | | | | watering cans. |
| to heat up for summertime and the pansies begin to | | | | - Welcome friends and guests to stay awhile with a |
| fade, substitute them with summertime blooming | | | | couple of timeless rocking chairs, a conventional |
| annuals like geraniums, impatiens, petunias or lobelia. | | | | workbench, or a classic porch swing. |
| Statuary and Ornamental Garden Items | | | | - Set out a new welcome mat abloom with the |
| There truly is no end to the selections available in | | | | shades of springtime. |
| ornamental touches for the porch. From the home | | | | - Hang wind chimes from above to produce a festive |
| improvement store and garden center to a throng of | | | | noise that carries on warm spring breezes. |
| online retail stores, there are truckloads of decorative | | | | - Adorn the walls of your porch with a whimsical sun |
| accents and wall decor art that may find aplace on | | | | wall art that welcomes the hot days ahead. |