Hi GPODers!
Today is the day many children (and adults) wait all year for. The costumes and ready, the candy has been acquired, and hopefully the pumpkins on your front porch are still looking as fresh and festive as when you first set them out. While some are happy with a pumpkin or two, or have the tradition of carving creative designs every year, but others like to take their displays to the next level. This is where Siri Freeman and Andrea Albright come in. This mother and daughter create amazing front porch arrangements as an extension of the services offered by Freeman Lawn in Oxford, Mississippi. Despite the heat that still lingers in the south during autumn, this duo is able to transform any entryway into a fabulous fall scene.
We’re Siri and Andrea, a mother/daughter duo who love to sprinkle pumpkin love around the city of Oxford, MS. Since we live in the south our advice to people who decorate with pumpkins is to individually clean each pumpkin with a bleach bath (1 tbsp per gallon of water)—this preserves the pumpkins in the heat. What garden doesn’t look better with pumpkins?
While orange is obviously the most prominent color for pumpkins, the popularity of white and green pumpkins have exploded in recent years. This added diversity in readily available squash and gourds allow for way more options when creating a festive color palette. Even while mixing many different varieties here, Siri and Andrea created a cohesive orange, white, and green theme.
The wider view reveals the full picture: a walkway dressed up with fall flavor. The addition of dried cornstalks add a bit more autumnal color to help balance the bright greenery that is still going strong in the garden.
In this entry, yellow and beige varieties add a bit more color to the display and get supported by pots bursting with mums in a matching assortment of yellow and orange.
A very creamy, neutral front porch gets a complimentary palette of more subdued colors that add plenty of interest while remaining complimentary to the existing aesthetic.
Lastly, the dark brick on the front of this house let Siri and Andrea amp up the boldness of this display. Subtle and subdued would get lost against all of that gorgeous brick, so bright yellow, deep green and very warm oranges all come together for a vibrant display that pops against the background.
Thank you so much for sharing your incredible creations with us Siri and Andrea! I absolutely agree that every fall garden is only enhanced by a plethora of colorful pumpkins and gourds, and you’ve given us endless inspiration for next year’s designs.
Do you create incredible fall displays in your garden? Whether it’s container arrangements, towers of pumpkins, or a cluster of happy jack-o-lanterns that you carve with your family, we would love to see how you celebrate the season in your landscape! Follow the directions below to submit photos via email, or send me a DM on Instagram: @agirlherdogandtheroad.
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