The Plentiful Porch started because a porch full of real pumpkins is the fastest way I know to make your house feel like fall.

By day I’ve spent the better part of twenty years in finance and accounting - spreadsheets, month-end close, making sure every number ties out. On weekends you’ll find me in the garden, where most of my focus has always been, or hauling more pumpkins home than one porch could reasonably hold. (I’m just starting my journey with power tools, so the small projects are getting braver every season.) The Plentiful Porch is what happens when those two sides of me finally meet: a seasonal decorating service run with a planner’s precision and a gardener’s heart.

Here’s the idea. Fall in North Texas is short, and most of us want the porch to look like the season without spending a Saturday at the pumpkin patch, another one arranging, and a cold weekend in December dragging it all to the curb. So I do the whole thing for you. You pick a package and the week that works; I design a display for your specific porch, source real pumpkins and gourds in the varieties and colors that photograph beautifully, deliver and install everything myself, and then, when the season is over, I come back and haul it all away. Every pumpkin goes to a local farm to feed the animals.

What you can expect from me: real pumpkins only, never foam or plastic. Displays that are full and layered, not three pumpkins and a bow. Honest communication - you’ll always know which week I’m coming, and I’ll confirm the exact day and window before I show up. And a porch that makes your neighbors slow down. I’m a one-woman operation, so when you email support@theplentifulporch.com, it’s me who writes back.

This fall I’m serving the DFW area, with a limited number of install weeks between late September and Thanksgiving. If you’d like your porch on the list, pick your package and your week, and I’ll take it from there. Thank you for letting me be part of your season.

’Til the pumpkins arrive, Traci