DIY
Patriotic Summer Entryway

Summer is full of entertaining and fun. Why not dress up your front porch with a show stopping red, white and blue theme? It's easy to plant all your heat loving flowers in colorful containers that really make a statement. Set up your display by mid-May and you can enjoy it all season long - for Memorial Day, Independence Day and even Labor Day in September!

Use varying sizes of pots to create interest and height. For our tallest container, we used a staked mandevilla with lovely trumpet-shaped white blooms for our "thriller." Annual salvia in a rich red acts as the filler while white and blue lobelia fill and spill.

• Tall glazed pot, 20-24"
• 1 - Mandevilla, white (on a stake)
• 3 - Salvia, red
• 3 - Lobelia, blue
• 3 - Lobelia, white

For the smaller pots, you don't need to get all 3 colors of blooms in each pot. You can choose a blue pot and fill it with red & white flowers or a white pot with red and blue flowers to achieve the same patriotic color scheme. These each have only 2 plants; petunias can do double duty as fillers and spillers.

White Container

• Glazed pot, 12"
• Salvia, blue
• Petunias, red

Blue Container

• Glazed pot, 12"
• Petunias, white
• Salvia, red

After your containers are filled with red, white and blue flowers, add some other decorative touches like patriotic garden flags, colorful solar stakes, or whatever star-spangled decorations you have on hand.