Beyond Potting Benefits: Make a Bold Statement with Garden Pots and Urns

Decorating your outdoor area can be really easy, especially if you’re doing it with plants in garden planters. There is an endless number of plants with which you could decorate your garden. From big ones, like trees or bushes, to small ones that can add some life and colour, there is an array of planters that can help you grow anything.

Planting in Pots and Urns

When it comes to outdoor planters, often bigger is better, because wider or taller containers offer more space for soil, which will enable your plants to grow and stay healthy for a longer time. This doesn’t mean that smaller containers have no place in your garden. On the contrary, they can add in a lot of diversity, colours and beauty.

Annual plants are a great way to add vibrant colours to your outdoor space and to create a big effect. You could mix and match colours to find what goes best with your house or your outdoor furniture. Packing a few planters with different plants and stacking them together could create a beautiful focal point on the side of your garden, patio, or in your front yard.

Another way to decorate your outdoor area with pots and urns is to choose plants that are easy to care for. Your best bet is opting for plants that don’t require too much maintenance. Succulents, for instance, are always a great idea. Apart from being beautiful and versatile, they don’t easily get disease or pests, and they don’t require too much water. You could plant them in smaller planters, or you could group different types in bigger urns.

Styling with Pots and Urns

Outdoor planter are one of the most useful garden items both for decorating and for planting. In fact, you could make your entire outdoor space more stylish, by using only garden pots and urns that you love. They come in different sizes, shapes, designs, and colours and you can display them in endless different ways to beautify your yard.

Bringing Green

If your outdoor area doesn’t have a lot of greenery, garden pots and urns can give you the opportunity to bring some nature to your patio or terrasse and create a small garden. Choose planters according to the size of your outside space. If you have a small patio, for instance, you could go with one oversized urn and create a green focal point with it, or you could go for a group of smaller pots or urns. Alternatively, you could make different patterns with more planters, in the corners, or to the side, or whatever feels nice to you. Use your imagination, and create a small paradise outside of your doorstep.

Designs and Set-Ups

 Plant pots and urns are very useful, and they can display plants in beautiful ways. But they can offer a lot more as well. They come in so many different types, designs, shapes, materials etc., which means it’s easy to find some that could serve as decorations on their own. One adorable way to decorate your garden is to get a unique and nice-looking urn. There are many gorgeous contemporary-looking, old-fashioned, simple, geometrical planters that can serve as a focal point on their own.

An effective way to display garden planters is to group them. This will make an eye-catching effect. You could group a set of pots if you like things that match; create a set yourself using more of the same containers or similar garden pots and urns, group one uniquely designed urn with smaller different height planters. Play with different sizes, shapes, heights or designs.

Distraction or Attraction

Plants are breathtaking, and along with beautiful pots and urns, they can be very eye-catching. This means that they give you a great opportunity to distract the attention away from something you don’t want to be seen in your outdoor area or to attract it towards something you want to be noticed or seen.

If you have a tool shed in your garden, for instance, you could place colourful plants in urns or pots around it to add colour. This way you will adorn the exterior of the shed, making it more interesting and allowing it to blend in nicely with the rest of your garden. You could place a nice big urn or a group of planters strategically, in a way that will grab the attention of visitors, emphasizing, accenting or marking a nice part of your patio. This could help you accent a nice piece of furniture, a piece of art, a part of your garden you love, etc.

Accenting and Marking

Garden planters could serve as a focal point. If you have different areas assigned for different uses in your outdoor space, such as a sitting area, an outdoor bar, an outdoor spa ­­­­– you could use planters to mark them. Alternatively, you could use planters to create or mark a pathway, or to adorn stairs in your yard.

If you are using pots and urns, you should take advantage of the plants’ colours and create a colour theme. This could also be used to accent an item, an area, a colour, and it could add some extra harmony and balance. However, try to stick to colours that will complement your patio, your outdoor furniture and decorations, the look of your house, or create a contrast with flowers in vibrant colours.