Creative Spring Garden Planters

Published: January 14, 2021

It might only be January but it is never too early to think spring and what you should do with your existing planters or maybe you are looking to add a new planter to an entryway or into your garden.

Liven Up your Entryway

Winter can be pretty drab between the holidays and the start of spring and there is no way better to lift your home out of the cold dark winter than adding some spring color in a beautiful wooden planter to your entryway. Not only do the flowers you plant bring beauty to your entryway but their containers are also a focal point. Using an elegant handcrafted wooden planter box can give your entryway that extra push you are looking for to break out of the winter blues and into spring colors.

Wooden planter boxes provide that unique look that you don't get from plastic and ceramic pots you can get from the big box stores. Unlike your run of the mill molded planters wooden planter boxes are unique and because of grain patterns in the wood and endless finishing possibilities you wooden planter can be unique to you and your tastes.

When looking for colorful options to fill your wooden planter look for flowers and foliage that does best in cooler temps and blooms early to mid spring to give you the best bang for your buck. There are several options to choose from here like pansies, creeping jenny, caladiums and impatiens to start. There are many more options to choose from making the possibilities endless and completely up to you, when choosing options for your planter, maybe choose a perennial as your centerpiece and build around it every season and year with new colorful annuals to provide a planter with continual blooms throughout the year.