Question 1

What exactly is in a Pumpkin'd display?

Accepted Answer

Pumpkins. Only pumpkins, that is the whole idea. Everything we bring is real pumpkins, in four sizes, blending classic orange with heirloom varieties in cream, sage green, blush, tan and slate blue. We don't sell hay bales, cornstalks, wreaths or plastic props, and we won't pad a display with them: one beautiful thing, done properly, reads richer than a porch full of everything. If you already have mums out or lanterns by the door, we design around them. Plenty of our porches have both, and a display should suit the house it arrives at rather than fight it. Four sizes to choose from, from ten pumpkins up to thirty and beyond, each at one all-inclusive price.

Question 2

How long does an install take, and how do you decide the arrangement?

Accepted Answer

About an hour for a standard display, longer for the largest porches. We design on site to the porch itself: stair displays run a pumpkin per tread with a cluster at the landing, deep covered porches take layered runs along the rail, stoops get one dense, tall composition that reads from the street. Sizes step down from large anchors to smalls at the edges, and color is spread so no two like pumpkins sit together.

Question 3

When should I book, and when do you install?

Accepted Answer

We take bookings from late summer and install from 6 September to 23 October, which is a short season on purpose: every porch is finished well before Halloween, and a display that goes up on the last day still has the whole of the month it was bought for. You choose your week on the booking form and we confirm the day within it. The last week of September and the first of October go first, so booking early is the safe move.

Question 4

Is the design included, or is it extra?

Accepted Answer

Included, in every package price. The value breakdown on the displays page shows it as its own line so you can see what it is worth inside the number. In practice it means the display is composed rather than delivered: sizes stepped down your stairs, stacks built and balanced, color chosen against your trim and shingle, and the arrangement adjusted on site until it reads properly from the street. Nobody hands you a pile of pumpkins and drives away.

Question 5

How long will the display look good?

Accepted Answer

Uncarved, whole pumpkins on a porch in our fall climate typically hold four to eight weeks, longer for thick-skinned heirlooms and a bit less for anything in all-day direct sun. We place stems-on, unwashed-in-wax fruit and set pumpkins on their bases with airflow, which is most of the battle. Pumpkins are farm produce and they do weather, so we don't put a guarantee on any individual one. If something doesn't look right during the season, tell us and we'll come and take a look.

Three sizes, one set price each

Stoop There It Is

Porch Perfect

Squash and Awe

Gourd Almighty

Hand-picked, then arranged on site

Tell us about your porch

We hand-pick your pumpkins

We design it on your porch

We stay close by

Heirloom varieties, not a crate of orange

Manahawkin and the towns around it

Before you book

Notes from the season

Seven porch pumpkin arrangements that actually work

Making a pumpkin display last the whole season

A porch palette beyond orange

The season is shorter than you think