Spring Containers for the Garden

Hello and welcome to Farmhouse Friday, when I team up with a group of fabulous bloggers who share a love of farmhouse style. Today, we are talking about garden planters for flowers. This time of year, I love adding a few containers to add color to our early spring landscape.  Here in NJ, we are finally enjoying a taste of spring warmth.

Last weekend was just glorious with temperatures around 70. Just perfect! Much to my kids' dismay, we declared Saturday morning our annual mulch day. The day when we drive to Home Depot a couple of times and fill up our SUV with bags of mulch. And then come home to spread it all. They did a great job and while they did all the work, I supervised while relaxing with a cup of coffee. Just kidding, I got to work on planting a few containers for spring.

I like to use a variety of planters for my container gardens. I picked up the white wooden planter at Home Depot while we were getting the mulch. For the price of just under $10, it was worth it not to DIY it. Sometimes I just take the easier route! I added the word "bloom" with chalk and it was ready to go.

Whenever I am planting containers, I like to start by giving it some height. For this container, I used daffodils to achieve that.  I then added some pansies. In our zone, the pansies will last longer than the daffodils.  Once the daffodils die, I will pull them out and by then the pansies should be filling the whole container. The pansies will last until the warmest summer temperatures arrive.

For the taller black container, I used a metal weathervane from Target to add some height. Then I added the tulips, hyacinths and more pansies. I also enjoy using some unexpected containers in my garden. This year, I added an old galvanized funnel to a hook in between 2 Adirondack chairs.

I added some pansies and it will fit in even more in the next couple of weeks.

The little seating area makes up for our lack of a big farmhouse front porch. Oh, how I dream of having a porch again! Unfortunately, that's not part of our plan for this house so this will need to suffice for now.

Over by our front door, I added some more spring flowers. This time, I used some flowering branches from Trader Joe's for height. I just stuck them into the dirt and added the other flowers around them.

A new door mat from Lowes, a diy geranium wreath and a welcome sign all come together to create an inviting entry for our guests. Red geraniums are my favorite summer flower but I need to wait a couple of more weeks before planting them here. I added one red Ranunculus plant to pick up on the red from the wreath.

I have come to be a huge fan of flowers in containers and I use them all over instead of planting flowers in the ground. I find them much easier to take care of and a bit more resistant to the critters that like to eat the flowers. I am looking forward to adding many more flowers to our backyard and pool area in the next few weeks. Do you like to plant containers too? What are some of your favorite container flowers?

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