Plants!

I've been hoping to get some color out on our deck for quite sometime now and today Justin and I finally had the chance to buy a couple things for our planters. There is a cute urban garden center just up Clark St. called Gethsemane. It was a quite a popular place this weekend but fun to browse around their gardens of shrubs, flowering trees, annuals and perennials.

Since our deck is mostly shade we decided on these white begonias with purple coleus. I'm interested to see how they handle the true lack of sun. We'll see!

Deck Ideas

Here's a photo of our deck. We would love to brighten it up with a colorful table and chairs, galvanized containers and hanging plants. Here are a couple of our ideas. Fermob has some great bistro furniture that comes in a variety of colors. CB2 and Pottery Barn both have some of the galvanized planters we like... Then, we'll finish it off with a ton of shade plants.