What potted plants do you have on your doorstep/porch area?

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I love plants in containers around the porch but have no luck keeping the plants looking fresh, had geraniums last year and they basically took care of themselves and in fact I still have a few starting to flower again but anything else I had didn't last long!
Anything that lasts with little maintenance is my idea of plant heaven!
Looking to nab some of your ideas for porch area ☺️

I have one pot either side of my door. No idea what the plants are...they look sort of tropical. Green spiked fan shaped leaves. They've been very happy there for the last two years or so. They get full shade all morning and sun all afternoon. Or rain all of the rain!

Trachycapus Fortune what they're called. Mine are only little.

I usually have seasonal bedding plants. At the moment I have primulas, they’ve been in a good six weeks and have kept flowering. I do take the dead heads off regularly. Over the winter I had a hellebore but it didn’t seems to flower for very long. You could always do some bulbs in containers and rotate them.

Window boxes have primulas, pansies and mini tulips. Pots have mini roses, big roses and one has a hydrangea. Other pots have tulips, daffs and alliums.
I love pots, I cycle them around, according to season.
Pots are not low maintenance, it's a fake environment, so you need to feed, water and change according to the season.

I cycle mine round, I have two large pots of each:
Spring - tulip bulbs
Early Summer - Bush roses
Late summer / autumn - dahlias
Winter - Heather, variegated ivy, cyclamen and dwarf conifer
Then you've always got something that looks really good right by the front door.

I have a horse chestnut in a pot, believe it or not, and it is doing really well. About two feet high, and the leaves are much smaller than you'd expect. There's also a conifer-type thing that is now looking a bit straggly so I might have to move that into the ground.

One year I grew tomatoes in pots, but they didn't work all that well as I kept forgetting to water them often enough.

I have two big square stone pots either side of the bay window. Ivy trailing for colour all year round and then hydrangea as well throughout summer and autumn.

I’ve got a whisky half barrel which has a big bay bush surrounded by lavender and fuschias. Colourful, perfumed and practical!

Like you I have geraniums (Roxanne). I also have Erigeron (also known as fleabane- a daisy like plant). Flowers for ages, perennial, doesn’t need much attention. Lots of people comment on it. Also convolvulus Mauritanicus (blue flower, not invasive like other convolvulus, trails over the side of pots, short lived perennial). Last year I had tomatoes too as I ran out of space elsewhere!

Lots of daffodils at the moment!

Salix flamingo trees in pots either side of the porch. Really easy to look after. Then in the space around their trunks I've planted lithodora diffusa.

I have other pots scattered around the top of the drive which have been full of crocuses and irises, tulips and alliums now appearing. Will then plant dahlias in those when the spring flowers finish.

Great ideas of what to get thanks everyone!
@Jeffjefftyjeff I'm going to look for a Erigeron this week if it needs little attention and looks good that's right up my street!