Plant These Bright Ideas

Southern Living

Learn how to dress your home with the prettiest colors of the season

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Create Your Own Custom Garden

Southern Living has done the work for you. We’ve selected plants that grow well together and show off nonstop blooms all summer long. Add instant style to your front door, deck, or patio. Garden expert Carmen Johnston shows you how to get ready for entertaining with the Southern Living Color Collection found only at The Home Depot.

 

Step-by-Step Video: Stack Pots for Impact

 

Find the Plants from the Southern Living Color Collection at Southernlivingplants.com/colorcollection

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Create Your Own Custom Garden

Think Big: Complement the scale of your home with the right size pots. Bonus: Larger containers mean you’ll water less. 

Add paint: Customize your look by painting the pots to match the trim on your home. Apply two coats, and let dry completely prior to planting. 

Stack ’em up: Position the larger pot first, fill with potting soil, and then top with the smaller pot, placing it toward the back.

Plant Smart: Place tall in the back, texture in the middle, and trailing toward the front. The Southern Living Color Collection plant tags make no-fail combos easy.

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Idea #1: Welcome with Color

Plant a flat-sided basket with your faves and hang on the door.

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Idea #2: Pretty Up a Powder Room

Fill bud vases with blooms snipped from your containers.

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Idea #3: Decorate Your Table

Create a party centerpiece and then re-plant outside later.

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Idea #4: Get Glowing Reviews

Fill a glass bowl with a floating candle and cut blooms.

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