I was ever so tempted to get rid of this planter.  I’m glad I didn’t.  Although the plants in the pots overhead are not trailing as in their name “trailing verbena” and the potato vine hasn’t really trailed either - that’s some simple tweaking for next year.  Picture pots overflowing with trailing, flowering plants.  Not so bad huh?

What was once a really unattractive area of the yard is actually becoming attractive.   In a few years when the Annabelle Hydrangeas that I ordered from Michigan Bulb last year grow in the area will be filled with Hydrangeas.  The bigger Hydrangea plants that you can see - to each side of the planter were picked up from Home Depot for just $12.50 a few weeks ago.  They were on their last legs.  Looking at the pole of the planter the one on the left is doing really well, the one just to the right of the pole (hard to see as there is only one flower you can see in the photo) is not doing as well but I think it will make it.  Next year it should be pretty.  Fingers crossed.