Ideas for a Flagpole Garden

Birth Announcement

• Hang a pink flag birth announcement for a baby girl with the date and birth weight printed right on it. Create a rock garden around your flagpole by clearing a circular area. Plant creeping phlox, an evergreen ground cover with dense, lowing growing leaves and purple, pink and white small flowers. Place small, irregularly shaped rocks around the flagpole garden. Edge the circular flagpole garden with sparkling white gravel.

Spring

• Herald the first days of spring with a white flag with an iris on it flying from your flagpole. Plant white and purple irises and fill the circle around the flagpole with bright, white gravel creating a colorful flagpole garden that is spotted from far away. The gravel keeps weeds to a minimum while allowing the irises to grow. Irises are perennial plants, so they don't need replacement every year.

College Acceptance

• Congratulate your college-bound son by hoisting the crest of his chosen college and a "Congratulations" banner. If you cannot find the college's crest flag, fly a college t-shirt with large print from your son's new college at the top of the flagpole. Plant flowers that are as close to the college's colors as possible. Wind plastic streamers around the flagpole in colors to match.

Halloween

• Place a Jolly Roger flag at the top of your flagpole for Halloween. Drape and glue cottony cobwebs that float from the flagpole. Stuff some old clothes with hay, draw faces and eyepatches on pumpkins to place atop the stuffed clothes to create pirates. Arrange these "pirates" so that they are sprawling at the flagpole base. Add a chest or box painted black to resemble a treasure chest and fill it with fake coins or candy.