Some pot plants to brighten up our front drive?

[BabyLlamaZen]

I would love some help with ideas for pot plants and hanging baskets to brighten up the front of my house. It's not the prettiest at current (brown pebbledash) but we will paint it white at some point.

What baskets would look good, be reasonably easy to care for and last, considering we are going into autumn?

I'm just about to plants some pots out the front of our house with violas and winter pansies which are supposed to flower throughout the winter. I'm going to put some spring bulbs (daffodils, tulips and grape hyacinth) in them too so they'll hopefully come though once the flowers have finished. That's the plan anyway!

Cyclamen are also pretty for this time of year.

Winter pansies! We have some lovely ones self seeded from last year's baskets which were glorious and voluminous all winter right through to May, we had to take them down as the summer baskets were overflowing

I shall be buying some violas soon, I plant them every autumn and they do so well through the winter, such cheery little flowers! I have 6 or 7 decorative pots, but I plant in bowls which fit inside these pots, which makes it much easier to change the display each season.

Thank you so much.

I'm pretty new to gardening!

Do you really just plant the bulbs underneath? I absolutely love tulips!

Apparently so! I’ve not done it before but I know it can be done.

Love the idea of something to look forward to in the spring