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Your Front Porch Sizzles On The 4Th Of July
Apple pie, the 4th of July, fireworks in the sky, and porches all go together! What better way to celebrate than decorating and entertaining on your porch during this festive day! With a little planning you can have the best porch in the neighborhood. Here are a few things you can do to make it "explode" like fireworks.
- Start with Old Glory. Just make sure she doesn't touch the ground or shrubs and that she is illuminated from dusk to dawn. Don't have a flag holder? You can hang our flag vertically from your porch (make sure the stars are to the viewer's left). Have a screened porch, 3-season, or four season porch? Hang the flag on a wall to create just the right look for this special day.
- Attach patriotic bunting to your porch's hand rail. Let the kids help blow up and hang red, white, and blue balloons!
- Plant red, white, and blue flowering plants in front of your porch. You can even arrange them in the shape and colors of the flag! Or, use the same color plantings in hanging baskets. For red flowers try zinnias, petunias, salvias, begonias and geraniums. For white flowers, we suggest white petunias, white vinca or white impatiens. For blue flowers, purplish-blue petunias, blue lobelias, blue salvias and bluebells will do.
- Have plants in pots on your porch or steps? Why not paint the pots in patriotic colors as well. You can purchase paint made for plastic at your local building or hardware store. It makes a great kid's project too!
- Don't forget the lights! Decorate your porch with patriotic light sets. You can hang them around the top of your porch or across the balusters. You can even hang a decorative "flag light" on your porch as well.
- Make a patriotic door wreath. It can be very simple. Use a grape vine wreath and hot glue patriotic stars, flags, buttons, and ribbons on it. Don't forget the porch chair cushions. You can make covers in red, white, and blue. Make an overlapping opening in the back so the pillow covers will slip off easily and save them for the next patriotic holiday.
- For porch table decorations paint small to medium sized baskets and use them to store cups, napkins, and silverware. Hot glue patriotic trinkets on the sides and they also make great house-warming gifts!
- What's the 4th without a party? Have the kids fill red, white, and blue balloons with water. Either plan a water balloon battle or use them to play a yard game. Place buckets some distance apart, divide into teams, and see who can get the most balloons in the buckets. Use a point system to keep score (red-1, blue-2, and white-3).
- Gotta have food! Have your guests bring food by color. For red foods, have some bring cherry tomatoes, strawberries, raspberries, radishes, bing cherries, apple slices, red pepper strips, and red grapes. Those bringing white foods might be tempted with macadamia nuts, white cannellini beans, white bread cubes, Swiss cheese, popcorn and white chocolate. For blue food providers try blueberries, blue plums and blue corn chips. You get the idea!
Memories are made on your front porch. This 4th of July, let your porch sizzle with fun!
About the Author
To learn much more about decorating your front porch for the 4th of July, visit http://www.front-porch-ideas-and-more.com/4th-of-july-decorations.html.
Mary L. Morris is a co-creator and co-founder of http://www.front-porch-ideas-and-more.com, your portal for front porch ideas and designs. Mary is a Grandma to 7 little sweeties.
What is your favorite plant? Why?
I love gardening which is why I asked this question. Personally I like zinnias because they are so bright and cherry looking.
Bladderworts. They are a kind of carnivorous plant, it is the only plant to have been documented to eat a mammal
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Finding The Best Wedding Flowers For Your Big Day
When planning your wedding flowers you must consider them to be the bride's arrangements, reflecting the spirit of her life's happiest day. From bouquets to decorations and wedding reception flowers, many brides are clueless about which one of them to select.
Flowers should be chosen according to the bride and groom preferences, color of the bride and bridesmaids' dresses, church and reception places, and sticking to the decoration theme, if any.
Another point to consider is the season because most floral varieties are easily found year-round, but seasonal flowers are cheaper and easier to find. Fresh flowers are the most viable option when it comes to planning the wedding day, but a few brides prefer dried flowers or artificial ones made of silk.
Having an overall perspective of the flowers available throughout the different seasons of the year may help to save money on flowers and yet allow you to select the most appropriate flowers for the big day. Wedding Flowers can be classified into Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Anytime categories.
Spring Wedding Flowers to choose from are tulips, violets, greenery, fern, pansies, peonies, ivy, daffodils, lilacs, lilies and lily of the valley, dogwoods, irises, forsythia branches, hyacinth, larkspur, sweet peas, apple or cherry blossoms.
For summer, the seasonal Wedding Flowers are daisies, roses, dahlias, zinnias, asters, iris, larkspur, Shasta, stock, calla lilies, delphinium, geraniums, hydrangeas, sunflower, sweet William, greenery, beech leaves, ferns, meadowsweet, stock, goldenrod, Jacobs ladder and Queen Anne's Lace.
During the fall, most wedding arrangements include both flowers and foliage but not necessary. The mix of these elements is always a decision of the bride who can choose from a single flower theme to combined floral arrangements with or without specific foliage any time of the year.
In Autumn, Wedding flowers include asters, dried hydrangeas, roses, zinnias, statice, marigolds, chrysanthemums and gerbera daisies while the most commonly used foliage are autumn leaves, yarrow, rosemary and rosehip.
Wedding Flowers for winter include the classic poinsettias, as well as orchids, amaryllis, camellias, jasmine and forget-me-nots in addition to accents of pine, ivy, fem, spruce and rhododendron leaves, so there is no need for dried or artificial flowers as many brides still believe.
Apart from the flowers already mentioned, there are some others available anytime when brides seek fresh flowers, including a variety of carnations and roses, besides of gardenias, baby's breath, snapdragons, stephanotis and ivy mainly used in wedding bouquets.
Wedding flowers are part of your special day, but can take a large portion of the wedding budget if not planned in advance. However, their importance should not be underestimated because they are symbol of joyful celebration, prosperity and fertility contributing to the atmosphere of love joining the bride and groom's lives together.
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