Mid-Summer Front Door Basket

In late June I "summerfied" the old bucket on the farmtable in the Garden Room with a wild "just picked" humongous bouquet. In mid-summer I like to have a crazy mix of sunflowers, hydrangeas, and geraniums that look like they just came in from the backyard. I shared the "Summer" ice cream bucket last week, so this week I gathered up some of the same faux flower mix and filled a gray wash wicker basket for the front door.

(on the farmtable in the Garden Room)

Before I actually hang up the door basket I like to take a pic so I can gauge what amount of fluffing and rearranging that I need to do. Do the colors and variety look balanced? is it top heavy or lopsided or straggly? It's easier to fix before you get it up than after.

This is a different basket than the one I've been using. It's a little wider at the bottom than the other basket, and slightly different in shape. I think it may have a little more room and "heft". Plus, the other basket arrangement had a very used bird nest in it, and the basket needed a big cleaning.

I love the bigger black and white check ribbon for summer.

It looks fun and goes with the red/white/yellow/black colors of the flowers.

AND it works with the front door color.

When we first moved in the front door was a more orange-y/melon color that was just too "in your face" bright. I loved the idea of a bittersweet color that was a little deeper and more subdued. This is "Spicy Hue" from Sherwin Williams. I had second thoughts about the color when it came time to decorate the porch for Christmas, but I know this year what will match a little better and still be Christmasy.

The impatiens in the vintage concrete urns have filled out 

and the fern is much fuller than when I first put them out on Memorial Day weekend. 

I've had to battle the squirrels about digging in the pots,

They are very naughty, but cute.

If you look closely you can see that at first try I didn't have a ribbon on the basket.

It looked a little plain to me so I grabbed the heavy burlap ribbon and I think it worked.

Remember what I said about checking out the basket before it's hung up?

I should listen to myself more often. 

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