Front door pots

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What are good plants or flowers to put in pots outside my front door? I'd like something evergreen or that flowers now for a while yet. Any ideas? Thank you

It's quite difficult imv to find nice plants that look good all year.

Pansies are popular late summer and over winter but I find the heads hang and they look quite miserable in winter.
What I do is have plants in pots elsewhere then plant them in the tubs come the summer. For the winter I have a mahonia waiting to go in. These grow tall but can go in the tub for a year or two.

I have a huge hosta in one tub, a couple of shrubs, duetzia and physocarpus in another (taken from cuttings of others in my garden). Third tub has violas, (from the garden), japanese anenome (from the garden centre and california poppies (from seed).
None of these are show stoppers but it is fun to grow your own rather than just pick everything up from the garden centre.

What about having a very wide pot, and having an evergreen centrepiece like a box tree in it. And then you can have different plants around it depending on the season and what you like e.g. Bulbs in spring; an inner circle of dianthus or geraniums and an outer circle of bacopa, petunias, lobelia or lavender or whatever you like in summer; maybe cyclamen or heucheras in autumn and what about something like variegated ivy in winter?

I suggested begonias (the ones with the jagged leaves) on another thread running at the moment.

I have some cordylines in the centre of several pots plus some variegated ivy trailing down the front. As WellTidy suggests I simply pop a couple of annuals (pansies, cyclamen in autumn/spring; petunias, impatiens, lobelia etc in late spring/ summer) in the gaps. They're easy to replace when they've finished flowering. The cordyline and ivy stay put

If you have room for a big pot how about a pieris. I have had mine in a pot for 35 + years now I just keep it pruned down, and have to replenish the compost occasionally - It has interest all year round

Love my pieris! Lots of interest as the seasons pass

I have Cordyline, Hebe, Pieris and Rhodedendrum in pots (albeit the rhody is in its first year in the pot) Margeurite too but that will die back I think

I have got some lovely twisted willow things outside my front door, planted with bulbs and/or seasonal plants.

Other pots include things like dwarf clematis and an obelisk type thing with alpines and/or bulbs during the seasons.

Plaited, not twisted willow I suppose - found a photo. I will vary what goes in the pot with it. Fairly new to me but they are growing well and I really like them.

That's lovely Barchester

They look much better now they are established Chis.

I left my huuuuuge pots at a house we moved from last year and hadn't done much here because we had planned to be away all of the summer holidays. Have had to cancel most because I am having surgery so my pots have all been reborn!

I have got ornamental grasses with perennials/clematis in some which could fit the OP's needs, a low grass at one end and the clematis/obelisk at the other for height with seasonal plants.

place marking

I had a lovely (boring/traditional?) bay tree which completely died a couple of months ago, dragged it away from house and stuck it around a corner while looking for something to replace it with and it came back beautiful and bushy and green all the old leaves dropped off.
Stupidly I didn't realise it wasn't getting water as it was shielded by being close to the building and it was being forgotten when watering back garden as it was the only thing out the front. So no ideas but just to say keep an eye on fluids!!!

Thanks everyone, yes 2 bay trees sound up my street