Sixteen beautiful flower planter ideas for your sunniest areas that are simple, colorful, and use easy-to-find flowers – plus where to find more inspiration to create your own colorful planters.
Every year in early spring I find myself wandering up and down nursery or home store plant aisles looking for the best flowers for our containers. Maybe a little desperately, since I long for the colorful beauty of flowers at that time of the year. Can you relate?
Many times I just start throwing things in my cart based on the tag description, since the flower starts aren’t usually blooming yet. The problem with this is twofold:
What we need are some tried-and-true flower container ideas that can be used reliably with the typical flowers found at nurseries and home stores. These basic combinations can serve as a backbone for our container gardens, leaving us free to add new or unusual varieties within the basic scheme.
