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recommended plants for porch?
I'm looking to get some nice plants for our porch to give it some life. I'd like a few plants, hopefully that are at least somewhat easy to care for (never done gardening before) and perhaps different seasons, so I don't have a bunch of brown pots in a few months.
Any suggestions or tips? 
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Re: recommended plants for porch?
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What climate do you live in?
Generally, I change throughout the seasons as follows using the same urns and pots:
- Early spring: pansies and *** willows as they can survive the frost
- June - September: potted annuals (as they will flower all summer long). I usually buy pre-arranged planted flowers that I can slip into my urn and pots. You will want to check your sun requirements. If you are shady then you will need to go with impatiens, begonias, or fushia. If sunny then you've got a lot of mixed options (I like wave petunias but geraniums are good for dry conditions)
- Fall: Fall mums
- Winter: Evergreens and red berries.
Good luck!
ETA: I love that it sensored *** willows! lol
MisN has great suggestions. I tend to do the same thing with my pots. Right now, the pots at my front door have tulips, pansies, and petunias in them. Once the foliage on the tulips dies back and the pansies give out in the summer heat, I'll plant geraniums and probably a nice ornamental grass that will work well in a container.
For my patio, I just bought two dwarf hydrangeas and will plant a trailing petunia with it.
With your porch facing north, very few of the plants listed above will do well
Google "full shade annuals" and do some reading. Impatiens, wax begonias, ferns, caladiums all come to mind.
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I have the same north facing porch issue. Right now I've got primrose and hostas doing quite well. I do drag the primrose into the sun for an hour or so here and there when I'm out in the morning a couple times a week but don't do anything else with them.