'Sprucing' up a Planter

Although our Christmas decorating was completed on December 1st, I did not do the concrete planter that sits on our driveway. I usually put boughs in it in an attempt to make it look seasonal, but I hadn't because I couldn't bring myself to first dispose of the summer remnant annuals since the Superbells are still blooming! Today was a gorgeous sunny, warm day and so I reasoned that it was the perfect time to spruce up everything. That's when I decided there was no reason not to leave the annuals in place to blossom among the wintery collection. I snipped some of our spruce and magnolia branches, picked up some whispy twigs that had fallen from the birch and snagged a couple of stems from the crab tree. 

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The silvery blue spruce adds such a festive look, but it needed some contrast so I added in some magnolia. I love the way that some of the those leaves are displaying their fuzzy brown side. The mix of that color and texture goes well with the waxy green front side of the others. 

It needed some height, so I lightly spray painted the birch twigs silver and also poked in some stems from the crab tree as I thought a few pops of red were needed.

My favorite part is seeing the purple and white Superbells poking through! 

It was a perfect day to "spruce" up the planter!