What I do is really easy. Last summer I just went to True Value and bought some hanging pots. They are white plastic with rope attached in 3 places around the edge, and I hang them from some decorative hangers that I attached to the doorway. Warning: there is a black plug in the bottom of the pots when you get them from the store, that has to be removed or the plants will drown. Then I choose some annuals that look pretty and will look nice in a hanging basket; anything that is sort of droopy by nature will look really nice. Some flowers I've been happy with have been petunias, lobelia, alyssum, and impatients, just to name a few. I use one six-pack of annuals for each hanging basket. That way they are nice and close together and will grow thick and beautiful. I could probably get away with using even more than a six-pack in each. Plant them in any potting soil, I just use the cheap stuff from True Value. Hang them up if the weather is nice, and give them a really good watering... that's the secret to growing annuals, I've discovered. "Soak the s&8t out of them!" as my boss would say when I was working landscaping. If the baskets are exposed to a decent amount of sun, they should probably be watered every single day because annuals don't like to have their soil dry out. After a week or two you can use some kind of fertilizer in the basket to give the plants a little nourishment, or you could water them with water from cooking vegetables, or from a fish tank or something like that. I hope this didn't go into obnoxious detail. I love love LOVE growing pots and baskets of annuals during the summer so I appreciate being able to babble about it, too!