Beautification

Henry and I tried a local garden shop this morning and were unimpressed. We made only one purchase (see Henry's head in photos 2, 4 and 5).
So we decided to try Gigantic Chain Home Improvement Store instead. We found a wider selection of fairly priced plants and spent too much money.
Here are the planters that came with the house:
Notice their ugly plastic-ness.
And here is a cute little boy in a new frog visor preparing our new planters from the local hardware store:
Notice the little brick pagodas I built to raise them up a bit. I wasn't quite sure that they were big enough, or tall enough or something. I bought some plant stands, which turned out to be too wimpy. Fortunately, our house came with lots of random bricks placed around the driveway and the backyard. This is the second useful purpose I have found for them in two days, the first being to expand the vegetable garden-to-be.
And here is the planter all filled with the new plants:
Notice the tallness I added with the spikey plant. Henry did most of the choosing of the flowers. He couldn't seem to decide upon color, so we just bought a bunch. Snapdragons towards the back, pansies and then violas at the front.
Here is Henry showing off the newly beautified entrance. He wanted me to take several shots like this.
And here is the planting Henry did in the old planters: