Planters full of pansies: 14 great ideas for decorating your home with these beautiful flowers
In spring, pansies can easily be found for sale at nurseries and (some) supermarkets, and it is difficult not to buy these beautiful flowers. Small and very colorful, just one pansy plant is enough to evoke strong feelings of springtime joy at home. If we then consider how easy it is to cultivate them, how can you resist getting some? Check out below some great ideas for planters for pansies:
1. In strawberry pots
Are you familiar with the terracotta amphorae which, along their sides, have openings with small "pockets" where you can plant a plant (usually a succulent or strawberries)? Well, these amphorae are perfect for planting a cascade of pansies!
2. A terracotta tower
Two terracotta pots of different sizes will suffice, but it is even better if you use three or four pots of gradually diminishing size for this tower: the widest pot serves as the base and the smaller pots are stacked on top in a tower shape. Now, your pansies have DIY balconies to display themselves from!
3. On the windowsill
A planter as long as the windowsill, hanging on the outside of your home: in spring, you can fill this windowsill planter with pansies... Add other plant species (perhaps with cascading/drooping foliage) to enhance the overall look.
4. Flowerbed borders
With their wide range of colors, and the compact shape of the bushes they grow in, pansies are ideal for decorating flowerbed borders.
5. Hanging baskets
A large pansy "bush", full of flowers in attractive colors is all you need to fill a hanging basket which can become a beautiful focal point.
6. On the railings
An rectangular planter secured to the edge of a railing on the balcony or terrace (or flanking the paved area of the garden) is another ideal location for placing your colorful pansies.
7. In tea cups
How about putting one pansy plant in each tea cup, mug, bowl or other ceramic/porcelain container that you want to recycle? Just take care to provide proper drainage: when using containers that were not intended to become flower pots, you must always drill a few holes in the bottoms to let excess water drain off.
8. On fences
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Almost any flowerpot can be secured to a fence to hold your panises. Don't forget to water regularly and your boring, old fence will be transformed into a thing of beauty!
9. Biscuit tins
An old biscuit tin can become a planter with vintage charm. There is no wrong color combination when it comes to pansies, but you could choose ones that match the color of the tin!
10. In a toolbox
An old toolbox - made of heavy metal and perhaps even a little rusty - becomes something enchanting if you fill it with pansies.
11. At the entryway, with other plants
Pansies co-exist well with many otther flowers: at the beginning of spring they can happily live alongside hellebores, for example. Pansies also pair beautifully with muscari (aka grape hyacinth), but, to be honest, it's difficult to find seasonal plants that pansies don't get along well with!
12. A riot of yellow
Pairings between plants can also be made purely by color: check out how enchanting these shades of yellow are in all their various shapes and forms.
13. In old metal containers
Bowls, old buckets and other metal containers (especially galvanized containers) can also be used to create impressive planters for pansies.
14. ... in short, wherever you want!
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Fundamentally, there is almost no place indoors or outdoors where a pansy cannot bring its light-heartedness and color. Are you ready to fill your house with these decorative flowers?
