Using Planters or Containers For Home and Garden Decor

For those of us who love gardens and gardening, the use of planters, or containers as we tend to call them in the UK, can add another dimension to our garden designs. The varying shapes, heights, and colors of the planters themselves, coupled with the multitude of plants that you can put in them, give you a great deal of versatility. When I still lived in England, container gardening was a pleasurable pastime of mine, along with the ordinary gardening that went on at ground level.

Planters can be simple flower pots of a small size, right up to giant urns with classic designs. Each type, shape and size can have their own niche in any type of garden. I find the use of planters to be especially useful on patios and terraces, but with careful planning and garden design, you can create little nooks and crannies in the garden where a container, with well chosen plants, shrubs or flowers, may bring a pleasant surprise to somebody just wandering around the garden.

Using planters has some benefits that do not come with ordinary gardening. Being able to move planters around easily means that you can rearrange flower displays without having to do any replanting. That also brings other advantages, as you can move a planting that is not doing well to a different position in the garden where you hope it may do better, for example moving from shade to semi-shade or full sun.

There is another advantage of container gardening that will be appreciated by those with any physical restriction in bending to the ground for long periods. My peak use of containers was in my mid and late twenties, when I had been suffering from back and hip problems and then recovering from surgery. I appreciated the use of tall planters more than ever during that time.

Decorative planters are also very useful in the home, not just in the garden, and very beautiful they may look too. Indoors, you may be able to use materials that do not keep well outside; ceramic indoor planters and marble plant stands are just two examples.

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