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Pineapple a Symbol of "Welcome"

Landscaping for entries depends on where you live. This house has ample room and takes advantage, welcoming guests with grandeur and with pineapple decor, in the form of a finial....
Pineapple decor is popular in landscaping for entryways.

Pineapple decor is popular in landscaping for entryways, since pineapples are symbols of welcome.

David Beaulieu

In the prior landscaping picture, brick columns adorned with pineapple decor rested at the foot of a flight of landscaping stairs. Here, we are back to level ground. The brick columns, which are larger on this property, are part of a wall. Indeed, the brick columns must be larger here, to hold their own with the impressive array of perennials planted all around them!

Pineapple decor has been used as a symbol of "welcome" since colonial America.

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