Spring Porch Refresh~How to use Antiques as Planters~Decorate with Me

[Music] hi everyone so glad you're joining me here today as you can see I'm out here on my front porch and I've been to the Garden Center I've bought some geraniums and some Ferns and all that good stuff and I'm ready to start planting it's it's already that time of year again and I'm so excited cuz this is probably my favorite time of year so I'm ready to get planting um got me some dirt had to go get some pot and soil so I could freshen up the dirt in my pots and I got a a just a a few little ideas I I wanted to do something a little bit different out here this year of course I want to do something different every year but you kind of sometimes you run out of ideas but I do have one good idea I think in my mind so we'll see how that plays out um I may have to have the help of Greg to make me make that idea work but we'll see how that works out um anyway guys I hope that you all just stick around with me while I get working on this porch and we'll see what the end result is okay y'all I'm over here in Greg's garage and Greg has so graciously said he would help me build something bless his heart I know he gets so tired of fooling with me but anyway what I I have I had this big trencher bowl and I've had it forever my husband brought it home to me one day he found it somewhere and I've had it on top of a big cabinet it's so big it's hard to find somewhere to put it in the house so I took it to the basement it's been down in the basement for a few minutes I mean for a few months so I decided I was going to try to just make a planner out of it so what what our idea is we're going to take I got my idea from ma a bench that Mama had out on her front porch I'm going to put ends on it the bowl is going to set on these things here these pieces of wood and then I'm going to cut a like a kind of a triangle like the old kind of pieces of furniture had on the ends so I'll have an end on inside it's it's too heavy for me to pick it up and show you but anyway you guys get the gist of it so I'll just kind of show you what we're planning on doing all right Greg you ready as ready as you're going to be [Music] [Music] okay here it is perfectly imper it perfectly imperfect project it looks good so y'all what I'm going to do is plant my geraniums in here and maybe some of my my go-tos my asparagus spern and bopa that's where you draw the line at planning you don't do the planning with me do no only the building I don't I don't decorate and I don't decide on Landscaping I I work on the Landscaping but I don't do it well Greg it looks good let's turn around and show them the ends how we did these ends or how you did the ends this little idea right here the Little Triangle up there came off of an old bench that Mama had on her front porch cuz we were trying to think how can we put legs on this thing and and every every bench has been made since the 1700s I had one of those yeah that's how they made them yeah so now I'm torn I don't know what I want to do I don't know if I want to put this on my deck or my front porch wherever you put it I need to send you home with one of my trash bags for my oh yeah cuz I am going to line it I'm going to put me a plastic bag in here to line it because I don't want to ruin it and I know if I keep watering flowers it'll ruin it but I love it Greg you did good you always do good I have so many things at my house that Greg has made it's unreal Mama too it's unreal they didn't they didn't see and you didn't borrow them with the hour and a half of trying to figure out how to do it no that's true we just kind of yeah we sat there for a little while thinking about it and Greg was we do all these projects with scrap Lumber yeah and then you've got to go through whatever scraps I have to find out how we're going to build it oh yeah so we were we were digging in Mama's little building for table legs whatever we could find and then then mama had this idea to come up with those kind of ends like that so mommy you did good all right Greg thank you for making it I love it you're more than welcome so here it is it's all finished I've got it setting on my front porch and now what I want to do is before I put dirt in it I'm going to line it with I'm going to line it with some plastic it's some thick plastic that Greg gave me because I don't want to just put just bare dirt in there I want to at least try to give it some lining and then I'm going to put some rocks in the bottom of it for drainage because I don't want to drill holes in the bottom of this so I'm going to try to try to staple this lining around the edge it's kind of hard in this wind today and I hope I've got enough dirt I went and bought a a two cubic foot pot and soil the other day and I bet I'm going to have to go back and get another one probably not going to be enough all right I think that's getting it now let's see how far my dirt goes but first I've got to get me some rocks I need to put a few bigger rocks in here so that I get some drainage okay I'm back and I ended up finding had a few rocks but I also had some broken Clay Pot pieces some pots that bloat over during the winter and just some broken pieces all right I think that'll work now let me get my dirt okay now what to plan in here let's see CU when I came up with this idea I had already bought all my flowers and I had already decided what I was going to do with everything and now I've thrown a kink in my plan so let me look and see what I got let's see could put this in them these uranium and maybe a white on each end that might look pretty okay this would probably be pretty trailing down the front my sweet potato vine and maybe put another one I bought these let's see about a week ago this past Monday so they've been sitting on my front porch I've been keeping them watered but you can tell they're wanting to get out of these pots so it's starting to look a little limpy all right let's start with this big one in the center move all these [Music] [Music] so I ended up using three asparagus fern two sweet potato vines two white uranium small white geraniums and one large red uranium now let me clean up my mess and then I'm going to give it a good watering now I'm going to sweep this off where I made a big old mess okay got that planted got it watered now I'm still going to try to work on this side so what I think I'm going to put in this bucket here is a fern I did have a geranium in there it was just setting in there but I think I'm just going to set a fern in there since I've got the geraniums right here now let me see if I can get these wires off all right I think that looks pretty you can't go wrong with a fern that looks pretty scoot these chairs all over a little bit so whoever's sitting here won't be attacked by the fern I think I'm going to move down to the other end and plant two more geraniums in a planter I have on the other end all right now I'm going to plant two more of these big geraniums I have one on each side of this planter get a hole in here and I have to tell y'all what happened this morning I came out here this morning to check on my flowers to make sure they weren't all dried out because we've had a lot of wind the last several days and we have this little Robin that has laid uh she had four eggs four little blue eggs and she was in a wreath I had here on my front porch and she built one of the big Nest it has the mud and stuff in it at the top of my wreath so I haven't been able to move that wreath I can't touch that wreath do anything with it but bless your heart this morning I came out and the little babies hat the little eggs hatched so there are four little baby birds and when I open the front door there was a pile of Just Fur and Feathers laying on my rug at my front door oh my goodness I hit the panic button I thought sure I thought oh no that's that little mama and something has killed her and left her on the porch so I hit the panic button and then I I looked and I was like no their their little chest are going I could see them breathing I said that's not the mama that's the little babies they just look like a big pile of Fur and Feathers so ran downstairs and got my husband got Ricky and so we we put some little clear gloves on and we picked them up and hung the wreath back up on the porch with the nest up at the top and laid them all back in the little nest and I want you to know I was hiding behind in the house looking out the window to see if she would come back cuz I'd always heard if you touch them they won't come back so that's why we wore gloves but anyway so we got all the birds back in goodness I look out the window and another one has come out again and so this happened twice two of them got out twice so now they're all in there right now I'm looking at them and I'll give you guys a I'll show you guys they're all asleep bless their little hearts they're sleeping so good so I guess birds are so active in the morning and that mama bird and I guess it must have been the daddy bird they were having a fit this morning when we were out here trying to get those babies back in that Nest I mean hollering and and running around in the front of the porch it was so pitiful because she probably thought what are you doing to my babies and I was just trying to save them but anyway they're happy now they're in their little Nest so I'm not going to mess with that wreath while I'm decorating I'm just going to leave it there until they fly away but anyway a sweet little ending to what make me made me hit the panic button that morning I said Ricky we've got a 911 bird emergency okay I think I'm going to get my wire cutters and cut these wires off this will be a lot quicker than trying to undo that wire out of that hole but I did see the mama bird I watched forever and she she wouldn't come back up here I guess she was all freaked out cuz I'd been up here messing with her babies but she did a little bit later I looked out there and she had a worm in her mouth sitting on the porch so I know that she's back in there feeding them thank goodness okay [Music] [Music] think I need to work on this table and plant something to go up here but I'm going to move this and do it while I'm sitting down over here on the porch step I hear you chirping up there are you chirping y'all it must be time for them to come out of their nest and y'all bear with me our neighbor next door is mowing so I hope y'all can hear me in this planter I'm going to plant a reged uranium a bopa plant and a sweet potato vine those are kind of my go-tos you know how you try different things and you think oh I'm going to be different this year I'm going to try something else and when I do I always regret it so I just stick to what I know will work and what stays pretty all summer I bet that little mama hears that baby bird chirping and she that Mama is probably so mad at me wishing I would go back in the house I bet she hears you baby and I've got these ferns you see behind me and I think what I'm going to do with those is set one on each side of the door I've got a couple of like uh galvanized sap buckets and I think I'm just G to kind of set them down in there one on each side of the door all right now let's put this sweet potato Bine right here cuz that looks so pretty last year hanging off of cuz it was setting up high on that table and it looks really pretty hanging off the edge just trailing down in front of that table yeah take it over there and see what it looks like on that table oh that's heavy okay now I think that looks pretty that white bopa will Trail down through here and so will the sweet potato vine and that red uranium will fill out so I think that'll be really pretty there all right I'm G to try to put this little baby bird in for the last time if he gets out again it just means it's time for him to fly away come here baby come here come here I know I'm not going to hurt you [Music] get in there get in there it's okay it's okay I'm not going to hurt you you're okay stay down in there I know mama bird I hear you you're mad at me again I think you're just ready to come out you're fixing to come out again in y'all see him right up there at the top zoom in he's just sitting up there at the top of his nest okay don't like too much more being done well I just made a mess right off the get-go it's warming up it's gotten up to I think the upper 80s today I bet my face is red all right again we're going with red geraniums bopa and sweet potato vine y'all knew that I didn't even have to tell you [Music] okay we got one more of these big uranium to plant and I'm going put it in this planter here and I bet by now I probably got dirt all over my face and all over my clothes these things need water bad all righty all right I think I'm going to use this rug it's got a little bit of red in it a little bit of Navy kind of a dark red so want to try that it's one that I had already in the house that I really wasn't using now now I'm going to move these ferns I'm us using these two sap buckets I had and I never repot these ferns they live just fine all year long until winter in these green pots they came in want to do something different on this wall but I can't till these little baby birds fly away hi babies y'all listening to me talk so anyway I'm just going to deal with it and then [Music] this is the same cushion the cushion that I made last year and I think it's okay it'll I didn't use it the whole winter so it'll last another season now it just seems like I need something right here I had a little chair down here at the end which I think I'm going to slide this back down I think that's going to look better and then maybe we'll just set this chair right here yeah I think this looks better with this table slid down but there's too big of a gap in between this bench and this table so and what I may do is plant something else to set in this chair I've got an a bucket that I usually plant stuff in it's already got the drainage holes in it but it don't have anything in it right now so I'll probably just get some more dirt plant something else in here and that'll be pretty sitting on that chair kind of fill up that corn corner now I'm going to take this stuff out this shelf and kind of sweep out the green pollen and maybe put a little something different on here clean this off a little bit now what to put up here I've got lots of baskets if my baskets will fit in these sh oh yeah that one goes okay that little basket's about had it and and let's see got to put my little bird nest back out here these are my little bird nests that me and Cooper and Bonnie have collected so I've got to keep them out here okay now these are just my old garden tools I've actually been using today maybe we'll just put these Crocs back on the bottom and I'll try to go in there and see if I can find I think I need three across the bottom here instead of these two those can find one more all right just going to rob this one out of the house now see what that looks like or maybe found a couple more pots that we'll just plant something in cuz it looked like I had too much Brown up there with all those just baskets and I think we'll just leave this empty up here little more sweeping it seems I make a mess every time I do anything and I hung my flag back I usually take it down in the winter and I hung it up the other day with that little uh the little wire ties that slide through a flag pole hanger where that way you don't have to drill holes in your post I think I showed that to y'all last year wish the wire ties were white but they you don't really notice it got these two little holes right here and you just slide the wire ties through there and strap it around your post because our posts aren't wood they're um vinyl post so you don't want I didn't want to drill any holes in them and let's see I guess the last thing I did was I added this little be scap to this table with this little wooden carrier now and then I added the little baskets I moved I put them over here on this table and now all I need to do is get something to plant in here just need to get something to plant in those three pots and I'll be finished as soon as these little birds fly away I'll probably change what I have on this wall but we'll see kind of like the flag what are y'all doing up there y'all still waiting on Mama still waiting on Mama to come back now I guess the only thing I need to do is get everything water good the only thing I watered was the planner that I made that Greg and I made yesterday so I guess I'll get everything watered and then I'll just do a short little quick little thing showing you everything planned it and what it looks like finished [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Published: Fri Apr 19 2024