Fill your home with vertical planters: find out how to decorate the balcony, patio or garden!
Any outdoor space that surrounds a home is never quite complete until there are plants in it. Sometimes there is no way to place a bunch of pots on the balcony, nor any way to create large flower beds in the garden, but there is always the possibility of exploiting - or creating - vertical space to decorate with plants. And sometimes these green walls and vertical planters are so attractive that they make a nice addition even to a garden which is already full of other specimens.
You can use various materials, including recycled ones, to create the supports on which to place the plants: from pallets to bricks, to DIY projects specifically undertaken to create truly enchanting spaces. Take a look at the ideas shown below to get some inspiration for your vertical garden:
Where a wall is also needed, or just to create a green, lively and new partition, you could use concrete breeze blocks (or similar type bricks), arranged so that you can plant vegetation suitable for the habitat in which you live.
To decorate a wall with greenery, you could also use a wrought iron support - a material that is always very elegant.
There can be many items that can be made with pallets, which maybe you could paint in colors that stand out from the wall where you will hang them.
Here is a wall planter that uses all the parts of a pallet: each space of the front of the pallet can accommodate jars, while the others will be placed on the blocks separating the flat, side boards.
A pallet wall that incorporates boxes to be used as planters is also perfect as a dividing element on a balcony, terrace or garden.
Columns of wooden boxes (made from pallet wood) are also very beautiful, all of the same shape and size, but each with different plants inside.
A wooden, slatted bedframe can be converted into a wall support for hanging pots, and if it is placed in a protected place and well treated with waterproofing coatings, it can also be used outdoors.
If, on the other hand, you can recycle some old windows, or even just some old window frames, placing the plants on them - like on a windowsill - you will create a striking garden feature.
How about recycling a lot of plastic bottles in a creative way to make a very original vertical planter?
Planters like these, with a modern shape, will be able to transform any fence or wall in a truly fantastic way.
And what about the idea of building a wooden wall so that it has irregularly shaped niches cut into it from which plants can grow out of?
And if you really want to literally have green walls - real, vertical gardens full of plants - then you could create magical corners that are truly out of this world.
Which idea do you like best?
