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Get Into Gardening Mode With Spring Planters

Posted: 04/ 3/2012 9:12 am
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With spring officially here, thoughts of sprucing up our outdoor spaces is coming to mind. This weekend, I popped into our local hardware store and was pleasantly surprised to see their garden shop open. We've had a late spring here on the West Coast, and with the weather all over the place, it seems across the country it's been hard to get into gardening mode. But now I am and have been hunting online for some new planter ideas.

We have three areas I'd like to tackle: the front door (which really has no sun), the backyard patio where I'd like to do some planter vegetables, and a balcony off our upper floor. With all of that outside space in mind, it can add up fast. So I've been collecting ideas; some to buy and some to DIY that I thought I'd share here.

Jan is the co-founder of Poppytalk, a Canadian design blog featuring the beautiful, the decayed and the handmade and Poppytalk Handmade, an online curated marketplace. Follow her on Twitter and Facebook.

 

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With spring officially here, thoughts of sprucing up our outdoor spaces is coming to mind. This weekend, I popped into our local hardware store and was pleasantly surprised to see their garden shop o...
With spring officially here, thoughts of sprucing up our outdoor spaces is coming to mind. This weekend, I popped into our local hardware store and was pleasantly surprised to see their garden shop o...
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06:31 PM on 04/11/2012
I love the spring. I have a lot of flowers blooming and it looks so nice. There are pansies from last year . The rose bushes are starting to show leaves and there are other bulbs popping up . But then again so are the weeds. I want to have different flowers in my planters this year.
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