Spruce Up Your Front Porch: Get Back to School Ready
Get your front porch back-to-school picture-ready with some of Carmen’s favorite container combos for August and early fall! From coleus to coneflowers, see them here before they launch on Instagram stories!
Back to school season is the perfect time to spruce up your front porch containers with colorful plantings that will last you into the fall. Here are 10 “recipes” for flora-and-fauna favorites that will have your pots sitting oh-so-pretty!
Classic August Window Box
This traditional grouping of greenery, like autumn fern and creeping Jenny, mixed with pink-tinged red strap lead caladiums is a sophisticated combo perfect for this month!
Early Autumn Tones
We’re not quite there weather-wise, but a modern planter filled with jewel-tone reds courtesy of plants like autumn sedum and red heuchera will put you in a fall mood fast!
Fresh Fall Container
These pretty colors are guaranteed to take you through August and into autumn with breezy fountain grass and lots of muted color from coleus, white catharanthus, purple star calibrachoa, and sweet potato vine.
Warm August Window Container
If earth tones are your thing, a symmetrical planting of twist sedge, peachy keen verbena, sweet Caroline sweet potato vine, and chartreuse coleus cannot be beat!
Fresh August Container
The deep color in this verdant pot recalls the tropics and is perfect for the last days of summer! Get the look with fountain grass, debonair chrysanthemum, red salvia, eyeball plant, Purple Heart, and plectranthus.
Classic Autumn Combination
Autumn, August—this pot works for both! A range of royal hues from purple torenia, Persian shield, and more yields a colorful container fit for your castle.
Colorful Fall Combination
You can’t go wrong with deep reds and green. Here, copper carex and peach toned heuchera anchor the seasonal color.
Vibrant Autumn Combination
Petite plantings of virigina sweetspire, ‘Berry Smoothie’ coralbells, royal heritage strain hellebore, ‘Jade Princess’ millet, and ‘Orchid Frost’ deadnettle are a perfectly symmetrical sphere of seasonal color.
Classic August Container
Nothing says late summer like fountain grass, and these pretty yellow rudebekia surrounded by Sedona sunset coleus and purple sweet potato vine are the perfect complements to each other.
Warm Autumn Window Combination
This pretty fleur de lis-like planter includes late-summery pops of color from lavender ivy geranium and ‘Orchid Frost’ deadnettle. Blueberry, chocolate white snakeroot, and heuchera add depth and dimension.