How to Decorate Your Patio

The wide variety of patio designs available, allows us to extend our homes into outdoor areas. Patio designs range from those that simply enlarge the living area of the house with a simple concrete slab, tile, or stone veneer to patio designs that are established in the garden using real stone or brick.  When it comes to decorating your patio, you will need to consider the different patio designs before you start to think about the enhancements.

Some patio designs incorporate a pergola or arbor overhead, which you can use to hang biodegradable coco lined planters. Other patio designs incorporate walls that you can use to mount flower boxes. All patio designs create the opportunity to group basket stands, plant stands, and floor planters together and introduce container gardening. Patio designs that include container gardening are great for small spaces.

While all patio designs feature solid flooring of some kind, only some patio designs are really well suited to al fresco eating and entertaining. If these patio designs don’t have some sort of screening it is often a good idea to plant a hedge of some sort alongside it or place some type of flat or folding screen around the area to create an element of privacy in your patio designs. Another option for your patio design is to attach flower or plant containers to a privacy screen adding a flare of color and a bit of atmosphere.
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How to Decorate your Porch with Hanging Garden Baskets

Hanging garden baskets that have been imaginatively planted with a collection of flowers and trailing plants can have a magical effect on any porch. You can suspend hanging garden baskets on various

porch structures using hooks or brackets. Either way, hanging garden baskets will add color, pattern and possibly even a pleasant aroma to the area.

There are a variety of liners that you can use to create hanging garden baskets. Most liners used in hanging garden baskets are made of either biodegradable coco fiber or plastic.

The secret of success with hanging garden baskets, especially when you decorate a porch, is that they need to be properly planted. You will also need to be sure to maintain your hanging garden baskets to make sure that the plants get sufficient light and water. If using biodegradable coco liners in your hanging garden baskets, it is critical that you pay close attention to the moisture levels – hanging garden baskets especially.

If your hanging garden baskets are made of wire you will need a planter liner to prevent the soil from spilling out of your hanging garden baskets. However, hanging garden baskets lined with coco look particularly attractive. Whatever type of hanging garden baskets you are using, start with a good quality potting soil and plant them with well-established seedlings, or more mature plants.

Plants that do look particularly attractive in hanging garden baskets include impatiens, which thrives in the shade, petunias and lobelias, or plant deep green ferns and hardy geraniums.

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AvantGardenDecor  is your one-stop shop for innovative outdoor living décor, including fire pits, hanging baskets, plant stands, planters, garden trellises, obelisks, and flower boxes. Plus, we offer an interactive patio planner, expert tips, FAQs and an informative blog to help you with your decorating and entertaining needs. You can get more info here >

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 Just because you've only got houseplants doesn't mean you don't have the gardening spirit - I look upon myself as an indoor gardener.  ~Sara Moss-Wolfe

How to Decorate your Deck with Flower Boxes

Flower boxes and biodegradable coco planters offer a wonderful way to bring life and color onto a deck. They may be incorporated into the deck design very easily by hanging them over the railing. Alternatively flower boxes may be placed directly on the deck railing.  Another option is to use freestanding flower boxes, coco baskets and plant stands.

If you are building a new deck or having one built, carefully consider how you can incorporate flower boxes into the design of the deck.

If you are planning to have deck railing, think about adding flower boxes to hang over the deck railing. If the deck is situated at a lower level you may want to use flower box stands to hold the flower boxes so that the plants are in line with the deck level.


There are many different types and styles of flower boxes that you can buy such as those lined with biodegradable coco, or plastic inserts. Flower box holders are another option.

Once you have your flower boxes in place, all that’s left is to fill them with soil and plant the flower boxes with pretty annuals, flowering shrubs, or various herbs.
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I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself.  And I find sufficient purpose for my day.  ~Robert Brault