On Sunday evening we got home from evening church, put the kids to bed and settled down to watch a little television while we folded laundry (okay … so Pam folded laundry). Anyway, while we were watching Desperate Housewives a rain storm with very strong winds rolled in. It was kind of freaky, especially since the plot of the TV show was a tornado hitting Wisteria Lane. The next morning we discovered that the Christmas trees that flank our front door had blown over (between the plastic pots and fake tree limbs they are fairly light). Today I picked up a bag of decorative landscaping stones at Lowe’s and got the kids to help me fill both urns. I think it enhances the look (click image to enlarge) and will hopefully will keep the trees anchored the next time the winds pick up.
For a different and more natural look you could stop short of filling up the urns and then layer moss (real or fake) over top of the rocks. This would enable you to save some money by purchasing cheaper drainage rocks (or collect your own), rather than paying for the more expensive decorative stones.
Now all I need to do is find that bag of tent stakes so we can secure the deer that also blew over. The poor buck is still laying there like he has been shot!
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Okay, so this worked sometimes, but there were a few big storms that came through and still knocked them over, probably because the rocks were too heavy for the urns…which, btw already had a small amount of concrete in the bottoms. Next year I’ll just have to get new pots, since one of them cracked (plastic) after it fell over.