Right now, everything I see, looks like a potential planter!
This is how contagious these creative and playful planter tutorials are, when the gardening bug meets the DIY bug in me.
Plant containers can add so much beauty and flair to a garden. The good news is, you do not have to go out and buy 50 planters. If you look around with an open mind, you will see endless possibilities to create unique planters from up-cycled and re-purposed objects and materials.
1,2,3. Recycled tires! You can stack them up, hang them in a tree, or cut them into flower shape as a lotus planter.
4 . Just a little fearless imagination, we have these giant parrots made from tires!
5,6,7,8. Things from our wardrobe!
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.
9, 10, 11, 12. Our kitchens have a lot of planters in disguise!
Vintage tea tins, colorful colander, misc cookware, and even coconut shells can all become planters!
13. Love cats or not, this soda bottle planter is just darling!
14, 15, 16. Many ways to make hanging planters from plastic bottles! ( Bitrebels | Hello Natural | SCJohnson )
17 . A wine bottle makes the perfect self watering planter and plastic bottles can work too!
18. Use this amazing Weldbond glue to make an epic planter out of lots of glass bottles.
19, 20, 21. Old furniture pieces as planters and plant stands.
Such a wonderland where flowers grow out of chairs, dressers, and drawers.
22, 23. Now I am really stepping into a fairy tale: a book planter, and a typewriter planter.
Next group: outdoor objects!
24 . A wheel barrel with drain holes drilled through makes a rustic charming planter!
25, 26, 27 . Planters can be made from rain gutters either hung with cables, or painted and attached to fence, or a painted drain pipe.
28 . Pallet planter with weed barrier fabric to help hold the soil.
29, 30. If you are lucky enough to have tree stumps or logs, definitely check these out!
31 . Concrete is a great material to make planters of all shapes and sizes, like these geometric ones.
32. Make a strawberry tower from plastic nursery pots!
I hope these ideas will inspire you to create some beautiful and bountiful container gardens this year! See you next week! xo
Great post. I love the hats and the boots. Spring is here and it is gardening time. 🙂
Love these ideas. I have several tires laying around
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!
These are all stunning and make me wish I had a garden. I love it so much!
Oh I love all of these! It’s making me want to DIY my own version!
Oh wow, these are so creative! I love the idea of repurposing items!
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!
The type writer plant!?!! I LOVE them. I’m a news reporter so it’s right up my alley.
I would like to know what kind of paint to use on tires.
paints for exterior fences, or exterior spray paints!
Such clever ideas! We use those parrot things in Panama, too. I love the colorful tires. 😉
These are awesome and so creative!! I especially love the tire swing and rain boot planters, so adorable. 🙂
I love these ideas. I pinned the parrot. I would love to have that hanging in my garden.
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!
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!
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 🙂
Oh my goodness, I love this! I’ve been super obsessed with planters lately. I need to do more planting.
These are such great ideas! My favorite ones are the soda bottles recycled – especially the ones painted like cats. So adorable!
I love those concrete modular planters! They look so geometric and hip. Can it be summer, like, right now?!
I love the concept of upcycling in this post! So smart!
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!
Love these ideas. I have several tires laying around
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!
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?
So many awesome ideas and I love that most of the stuff is recycled.
I love those concrete modular planters!
These are such great ideas! My favorite ones are the soda bottles recycled – especially the ones painted like cats. So adorable!