I like my driveway as a space for the containers also because I think it adds aesthetically to our entrance. I’ve been in a 10 year phase of convincing my husband of the beauty of this. Long before me he had a wife and home in suburbia. She gardened by putting out multiple flats of seasonal annuals around their landscaper-prepared beds. He left suburbia for the country but maintained some of that mentality. He feels vegetable plants belong out back, unseen by guests. Heck, like all of you, I think, I want to show mine off. We’ve gone back and forth with this idea of landscaping and it’s been a challenge. He was unfamiliar with perenials, herbs for cooking, medicine and just fragrance. But I think finally he just went along this year as I put in the first dozen tomatoes and peppers along the driveway while he was at work one day. He could see how easily accessible it all was for me and kept any negative thoughts to himself as he’s known how I’ve struggled to try and garden out back.
I know it bothers him but I’m getting him used to my kind of gardening. He now likes my fresh herbs in salads and cooking and sees the value of growing our medicinal things. He just hasn’t yet seen the beauty of blooming squash mixed in a bed of pretties. LOL
Our gardens are mostly out back, but that’s because of the soil more than anything. The front yard kills almost everything we plant. I also get lazy and not keep the bucket’s area as neat as I like the front patio and driveway.
We currently have a big bed of Iris and Lilies lining one side of the driveway. Hubby put them there out of the back yard flower garden along the upper back patio. He then put blueberries in that space.
When we talked about it, I was OK with it. However, I think now that the blueberries would have looked nicer along the driveway than the flowers, which are tall and scraggly after they bloom.