Right now, everything I see, looks like a potential DIY planter!
Planters and flower pots can add so much beauty and flair to a garden. The good news is, we don’t have to spends $500 on a few outdoor planters. Let’s look at:
How to create great looking and durable DIY planters from simple materials and upcycled objects.
A variety of DIY planter ideas from pallet planters to plastic DIY flower pots!
Let’s start with some designer looking DIY planters you can make for less than $10!
Group 1: Easy and beautiful wood DIY planters .
Generic plastic flower pots are durable and cheap, wood planters are beautiful and expensive. Here is how to have the best of both: beautiful and easy DIY large wood planter box for $10 and simple wood planters to cover old plastic pots!
Another designer looking wood DIY planter: a living wall pallet planter!
Group 2: How to make outdoor DIY planters from recycled tires.
There are many ways to use rubber tires to make large planters for outdoors. You can stack them up, hang them in a tree, or cut them into flower shape as a lotus planter.
Just a little fearless imagination, we have these giant parrots made from tires!
Group 3: Make creative DIY flower pots from re-purposed objects.
Can you believe these DIY flowers pots are all made from things in our closet!
Gardeners always have plenty of used hats, colorful rain boots, shoe organizers, and cute happy purses. Just remember to line the hats and purses with plastic, and add drain holes to all these planters.
Group 4: DIY planter ideas from our kitchens.
Our kitchens have a lot of planters in disguise!
Vintage tea tins, colorful colander, misc cookware, and even coconut shells can all become planters!
Group 5: Up-cycle glass or plastic bottles into DIY planter pots.
Love cats or not, this soda bottle planter is just darling!
Many ways to make hanging planters from plastic bottles! ( Bitrebels | Hello Natural | SCJohnson )
A wine bottle makes the perfect self watering planter and plastic bottles can work too!
Make an epic planter out of lots of glass bottles.
Group 6: Transform damaged furniture into DIY planter pots
When a cute piece of furniture breaks, it may still have another life: turn them into DIY planters and plant stands!
Such a wonderland where flowers grow out of chairs, dressers, and drawers.
Now I am really stepping into a fairy tale: a book planter, and a typewriter planter.
Group 7: Old garden tools and objects into DIY outdoor planters .
Make a strawberry tower from plastic nursery pots!
A wheel barrel with drain holes drilled through makes a rustic charming large planter for outdoors!
Planters can be made from rain gutters either hung with cables, or painted and attached to fence, or a painted drain pipe.
Group 8: Wood and pallet planters .
Pallet planters can be made in an instant here with weed barrier fabric to help hold the soil.
If you are lucky enough to have tree stumps or logs, definitely check these DIY planter ideas out!
Last but not least, concrete is a great material to make DIY planters of all shapes and sizes, for indoors and outdoors, like these geometric ones.
I hope these ideas will inspire you to create some beautiful and bountiful container gardens this year! See you next week!
Cynthia
Great post. I love the hats and the boots. Spring is here and it is gardening time. 🙂
candy
Love these ideas. I have several tires laying around
Deynece
OMG This is so awesome!! I have to say I think the boots are my favorite!! Such a cute idea!!! I am definitely going to have to try!! thanks for sharing!
Emma
These are all stunning and make me wish I had a garden. I love it so much!
chloe | boxwood avenue
Oh I love all of these! It’s making me want to DIY my own version!
Heather @ Simply Save
Oh wow, these are so creative! I love the idea of repurposing items!
Chel
So many awesome ideas and I love that most of the stuff is recycled. Personally loving the concrete planters and the use of the old soda bottles!
Anita
The type writer plant!?!! I LOVE them. I’m a news reporter so it’s right up my alley.
Tessa
I would like to know what kind of paint to use on tires.
ananda
paints for exterior fences, or exterior spray paints!
melody pittman
Such clever ideas! We use those parrot things in Panama, too. I love the colorful tires. 😉
Mimi Rose
These are awesome and so creative!! I especially love the tire swing and rain boot planters, so adorable. 🙂
Candace
I love these ideas. I pinned the parrot. I would love to have that hanging in my garden.
Donna
This is my first visit to your site and you’ve totally inspired me! I realize I’ve been overthinking an upcycle project I’ve wanted to undertake.I’ll send you a pic when I’m done, but (hint) it has to do with empty 20lb plastic jugs of kitty litter. So thank you!
Dana
I love the rain boot planters!! I never really realized that you could technically turn anything into a planter. I’m going to start looking at my household items in a different light now!
Celeste
Wow these are so great! My daughters are DYING to plant flowers, but our garden space is teeny tiny for our townhome, so this post is coming at a great time! Loved the concrete module one 🙂
Angie @ My So-Called Chaos
Oh my goodness, I love this! I’ve been super obsessed with planters lately. I need to do more planting.
Aida@TheCraftingFoodie
These are such great ideas! My favorite ones are the soda bottles recycled – especially the ones painted like cats. So adorable!
Jess | Make and Do Crew
I love those concrete modular planters! They look so geometric and hip. Can it be summer, like, right now?!
Jennifer
I love the concept of upcycling in this post! So smart!
Cora Walker
Lovely and quite useful ideas! I’m still planning my flower garden now and here are few planters that will look great at my place. I’ll definitely recommend your post to my sister. She’ll be glad to add some new planters in her garden too. Thank you for sharing!
lauren
Love these ideas. I have several tires laying around
lenny face
So many awesome ideas and I love that most of the stuff is recycled. Personally loving the concrete planters and the use of the old soda bottles!
Karen Jones
Just been on Pinterest after a while and saw this! Straw hats are perfect for me as I have a few old ones lying around and am just in the middle of doing up our courtyard garden in a woodland and vintage theme! Was thinking of ideas to do up an old shed so going to use hats?
lenny
So many awesome ideas and I love that most of the stuff is recycled.
Emily
I love those concrete modular planters!
val
These are such great ideas! My favorite ones are the soda bottles recycled – especially the ones painted like cats. So adorable!
Susan Ping
I love tire planters! Just make sure not to eat what you plant in them. The chemicals in the tires will toxify edibles. Stick to ornamentals and its all good and beautiful.
ananda
thank you Susan for sharing the helpful tip ! 🙂
Yana Jonson
Hello Ananda,
Your designs are very nice and eye-catching. I will try Diy planters from recycled tries for my house decoration.
I have some old tires in my home and I will use them.
Thanks for such a nice idea-sharing.
Martin theobald
Nice idea. your designs are creative. Diy flower pots from re-purposed objects is very special for me.
Thank you very much, Ananda.