Spring Project

Now that we are in our new house for the first Spring, I have been dying to plant stuff. I wanted to wait and see what came up this Spring and I have been thinking for months and months on what I am going to plant around the pool area. I like easy, I like tropical, and I love pretty. So, for the last few nights I have been working very hard to get all my planters looking good and figuring out what to plant.

I had tons of pots from the old house. They were mismatch and did not look very good. The first step I decided to take was to paint all the planters the same color. At first, I thought of doing a red or teal blue, but then decided I would match my newly painted patio furniture.

Before

After

Once they were painted, I wanted to try and figure out the plants that could go into them. I do NOT have a green thumb. So I used Pinterest and Google. The one plant I knew I wanted was some cannas. I love them and they are tropical. Other than that I had no clue. I really don’t know how this is all going to look once everything starts really growing but here goes.

This one has creeping jenny, begonias and the cannas will hopefully appear in the middle of the container. These have coleus in them. I have four of these smaller containers. I am hoping to keep them alive all summer, but that will require a little help from my husband on my first long work trip. He has a tendency to forget to water my plants. Thinking positively for this summer that since they are by the pool he wouldn’t forget.