Planters, window boxes, and hanging baskets provide splashes of color on patios, around pools, or scattered throughout your landscape. No garden is complete without them! They’re ideal if you have poor soil or when you need to protect plants from hungry garden visitors such as rabbits and deer. Strategically-placed planters also can screen a view or provide a sense of delineation for different outdoor rooms. As the summer wanes and annuals begin to fade, it’s also easy to remove spent plants from containers to tuck in a few seasonal favorites such as chrysanthemums or ornamental kale.
But there are a few tricks to designing containers so they’re lavish and eye-catching. Sparse is never a good look, so place plants fairly close together. You also must remember that containers tend to dry out more quickly than landscape beds, so you’ll need to check them frequently in hot weather. Pots made from materials that are porous, such as terra cotta, also dry out more quickly because moisture evaporates more rapidly than from non-porous materials such as metal. Here’s how to create extraordinary planters by following these simple design tips:
Follow the spiller, thriller, filler design concept.
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