I will have to just be as up front as possible….I am a serious garden and flower freak. I am one of those people that do everything I can to have the most impressive backyard I can. I mean it! I want people to visit and think they are at a botanical garden. I have pretty much maxed out the garden, pots, fence areas, and around my house with flowers. So I found myself going stir crazy because I had no way of adding more. Then it hit me, flowers on my deck!
I mean I sit here and all I see is all that space on my deck rails that need flower pots! The best part about it is they won’t take up any of the living and entertainment space on the deck. So, I’ll just break it down step by step on how I did it for those of you who are like me and want to flower your deck:
All of us want a beautiful deck, and one easy way to enhance a deck is to add flowers. By using a specific group of flowers, and limited supplies; you can easily transform your deck into a flower garden. By day, it will display one type of flowers, yet by night it will show a completely different type of flower.
This is my first time writing instructions, please be easy on the remarks.
Step 1: What you need
The amount of supplies you need depends on your preference. The plan is to plant Morning Glories and Moon Flowers in alternating pots across the rail of a deck. Depending on the size of your deck and how dense you want the flowers to be, the amount of supplies will change. My deck is about 25 feet across and I placed the pots about 3-4 feet across. Based on my deck you will need, morning glory seeds, moon flower seeds, 8-6 inch pots, and potting soil.
Step 2: Add soil to the pots
The easiest and most obvious step, adding soil to the pots. Simply fill the pots about 3/4 full with soil and shake the pots to level the dirt.
Step 3: Planting the seeds
Now it’s time to plant the seeds. Using your finger, poke 3 holes in the soil about 1/2 inch deep. Drop 1-3 seeds in each hole and cover them. You need to put Morning Glories in half of the pots, and Moon Flowers in the other half. It is easiest to separate the pots into rows to do this.
Step 4: Arrange your plants upon the rail.
Take your pots and place them on the rail in an alternating pattern. Starting at one end of the rail, if you put a Moon flower first, then put a Morning Glory next. Keep doing this all the way down the rail. Put the pots about 3-4 feet apart. If you want the flowers to be closer together, move them closer.
Well, that’s how I did mine….hope you enjoy doing yours. Later