a few planters for annuals and I use a professional weed cloth.  

NO towels hanging off anything. and a floral low profile plant on table.I had great planters outside by door.I kept tags on the towels and all accessories that I bought and took them back after photo's were done.The plants also.. 

Prioritize and narrow-cast on experimenting with the BRRRR method, buy-hold, single family, multi-unit and eventually some commerical properties (to assist new church storefront start-ups, a personal passion of mine as a church planter).  

If the tree is in a garden, you could leave it a foot high and put a planter on it. 

Then plant a couple of bushes and use 1 large planter with a bush in it. 

The front porch wall sconces were too round, the boarder for the flower planter should be made of the original brick from the home and not stone, and the list goes on.

The planter outside required both of us for 4+ hours, walls needed scrubbing, oven and behind oven needed serious cleaning, bathrooms needed scrubbing, etc. we chose to do a most of the cleanup ourselves and I want to be reasonable.

@Rudy Planter  I will send you a few contacts to help get you started!

I once, actually I still do, had a cat that liked to use the large planter in my foyer.  

Narrow walkway in the middle leading to the front door, grass to the right, and a large patch of bald space to the left where grass don't grow under the tree.Now my motivation is to improve the curb appeal, of course, but I also wanted to experiment with using river rocks to connect and border landscape components.I wanted to hilight the walkway on both sides, I want to solve the ugly patch of dead space under the tree, and I wanted some structured planter areas, and somehow tie in the two palms to the right side of the house.Here is a sketch of the plan.I will create a set of wood borders (inside and outside borders) around the tree to the left.