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Outdoor pot HELP needed - can't pick design

last year

I need help picking the shape and style for a replacement concrete pot for the front of our house. It will be where the canna lillies are in this picture (in current pot). Three options I found are the screenshots after. I don't know why I'm having such an issue visualizing this. Please help!

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Jilly
last year
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My favorites for your lovely home are #1, #4, and #5.
RNmomof2 zone 5
last year
I feel that you need some heft for the front of your house. Your house has a lot of presence from the street and needs something weighty to go with the scale. I like the shape of the last two. How do they compare to the others? The first ones are pretty narrow.

What do you not like about the current pot that you are changing it? IS it sitting on a hard surface or in the landscaping? It's difficult to tell. Also what will you be planting in it and does it need to balance out the left side?

Pretty house and landscaping!
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allison g
Original Author
last year
Thank you both! I loved #1 in person, but I don't think it matches for some reason. Perhaps too delicate, so that heft comment makes sense. The old was on landscaping. The old owners took it. I'm in IL, so concrete would be great round. I plan on doing cannas when I can, mums in fall
ratherbeatthebeach
last year
#4 or #5
allison g
Original Author
last year
Everyone seems to like the boxier ones. Thoughts on this then? Adding to mix...
Jilly
last year
I like it!
RNmomof2 zone 5
last year
I like it too, do you buy any chance know the height? Since it's going under the address placard compare the height plus future plants to make sure it all fits and balances the other side. It's nice that it has a wide at the top to give you plenty of room for plants.

I'm more than a little jealous you have somewhere that has that many options.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
last year
I use much bigger pots for my cannas and IMO a large metal pot in the same color as the front door woudl be my choice
decoenthusiaste
last year
This one or the one you just posted; they both seem to mimic the large returns on the gables.
TBL from CT
last year
Traditional concrete will crack if left out in freezing winters. The porous material will remain wet and when it freezes, you're done - maybe not right away, but it will happen over time. The chunkier ones seem to be more in scale for your purpose. I do like Patricia's idea of considering a dark planter to echo the door color.

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