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How To Used Potted Plants Around Your Door

Step 3: Topiary and Succulent

Step 3: Topiary and Succulent

It's not a Jane Austen book they’re the Mutt and Jeff of porch plants-- their contrasting looks go nicely together. Topiaries are any number of bushes that are trained to form a geometric shape while succulents are plants that retain water giving them a swollen fleshy look sometimes referred to as succulence. Together they make some simple clean lines.

Step 1: Beef Up That CurbsideStep 2: Porch Meet YardStep 3: Topiary and SucculentStep 4: This Porch Smells GreatStep 5: Color Not Just Flowers

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