The Pretty Ones

We started to make plans. With our 7 barrels we only had 3 downspouts that were not collecting water. Two were oddly placed by the previous owner on the sides of the front porch. The gutters were only 3 feet long, but still, it was water we were missing out on. Also, we had constantly hit a wall when trying to decorate the front of the house, and I had started seeing decorative barrels that looked like terracotta pots....
So the search started ;) We finally settled on two the color of terracotta that had planting space in the top and ordered them from Amazon.

We installed one on each side of the porch (Sept 2011) and set up a soaker hose from one to provide constant water to the flowers around our sidewalk. The flowers now bloom for much more of the season, and are beginning to spread out! We're hoping they grow together and fill the space in :)