Celebrate fall and the brilliant fall foliage by decorating your home's front entrance with a DIY fall outdoor arrangement to flank either side of your front porch. 

What You Will Need:

• Outdoor urn or large pot
• Planting soil
• Gardening shears
• 1 tall and narrow plant or 4 to 5 decorative branches such as willow or pussy willow
• Several small plants such a leafy kale, fall flowering plants like mums, short clusters of dried berry branches, small pumpkins, or colorful gourds 

• Several feet of orange, red or brown decorative ribbon (optional)

How To Make An Outdoor Fall Urn For Your Front Porch:

Height: Start by filling up the pedestal, urn or large pot with soil and sticking tall and narrow plants or decorative branches, such as curly willow branches or soft pussy willow in the middle of pot to give height. An easy way to get branches for your arrangement is to save clipped branches when pruning your garden in the fall. For extra color, consider spray painting the branches in fall colors, such as gold, red or orange for a more vibrant arrangement.

Texture and Color: Next fill around the top of the pot and the branches using decorative plants to hide the dirt. If you would prefer a natural arrangement use fall hardy plants such as flowering mums,cut short dried branches with berries or small pumpkins or gourds for color. You can just as easily use fake clusters of fall leaves and grasses which are available at craft stores and will last until you tradition into a winter outdoor arrangement.

When cutting branches or plant matter to go in your fall arrangement position the branch to the exact height and angle you wish it at and cut a few inches below where the branch touches the pot to give you enough additional plant matter to stick into the pot.

For a more visually appealing result use varying heights so that some a close to the pot or even cascading down, while others are raised up to half way up the branches. Additionally you can vary the plant matter used, but stick to a limited number of plants to no more than five, or you can create interest by using several colors of the same plant, such as leaves in red, yellow and green.

Decorative Embellishment: To complete the look consider adding a decorative ribbon in fall colors around the base of the urn and tying a large bow, or adding a small decorative fall themed welcome sign to stick into the pot. Depending on your choice of sign, or ribbon you can quickly customize the look of the urn to be themed specifically for certain holidays such as Halloween or Thanksgiving.

Tip For Winter:

• To easily transition your arrangement for the winter replace the decorative plants with cut short branches of ever green or holly branches and use pine cones as accents. For the upright branches paint them silver or white, or replace them with red dogwood or birch branches.

This lovely fall outdoor arrangement was made by Thea from Time With Thea.