Dressing Up A Garden Gate For Spring

It's been beautiful here in Tillsonburg for the last couple of weeks causing spring to arrive in a hurry. But the weather forecast calls for rain and colder temperatures for the next couple of days. In an effort to keep spring going, I added some colour to the grapevine wreath I made a month or so ago.

This is the gate to our back yard from the south side of the house. It leads to the door that we use the most so I like to make it a focal point. (Those apartments at the back really look a lot closer in the picture than they actually are.) Anyways, I wanted to create something that would last throughout the spring months and didn't want to spend a lot of money.

The wreath I made from clippings in the garden, the tulips were a bunch I bought 5 or 6 years ago and have been used many times so didn't feel too bad about cutting it up, the pussy willows are leftovers from my spring mantel and the little nest was on a spray I bought today at the Dollarama (man, I love that place). Total cost: $6 for everything spent over 5 years. And the neat thing is that because most of it is just hot glued in or just stuck into the wreath, when I'm sick of it I can easily change it up to a more summery look.

As you come around from the front of the house, there is a little wrought iron planter. So I planted it up with some pansies just because I was sick of looking at the dead winter greens. As spring progresses, I add some forced tulips and maybe some ranunculas for colour as I've done in previous years.

More pansies at the base of this weeping pussy willow at the front door in the concrete urn. Again, I'll add to it as the weather improves.

And because I had some leftover, I quickly potted up some more pansies in this cute herb pot and sat it beneath the weeping Japanese maple in the back garden. Just because. I do things like that.

I'm joining theses parties: