Pots and planters are garden and landscaping necessities. They do not just hold plants. They can also be the focal points of your outdoor spaces. Fun, creative, and attractive planters will add character and dimension to your landscaping designs. Here are some fabulous garden planter ideas and designs that could inspire your next front yard makeover.

1.       Hobo Patterns

Chic, colourful, unique. You can DIY these modern garden planters too! You’ll need a quiet weekend and a few tubs of paint – white and several of your favourite colours. Paint your current planters with white and get creative with colours and shapes.

2.       Concrete Heads

Stunning and impressive! These works of art will give your garden a touch of whimsy, fun, and quirkiness. Choose the right plants that will give a playful effect as it appears to be the hair of the figurine planter.

3.       Steel Boxes

These sleek modern planters will complement modern gardens and landscape designs. The tall black steel frames will add dimension and shape to the lush greenery, while its minimalist construction highlights the beautiful and individual plant shapes and patterns.

4.       Moving Planter

This innovative planter design is functional and creative. Made of recycled wood pallets, the slim and tall planter also features wheels, making it easier to move around. Its shape saves space and can easily turn the planter into a hedge, a divider, or a screen.

5.       Charming Crates

Don’t just throw away those wood crates lying around your backyard. Get creative and turn them into this charming flower box instead. Just clean the crates, leaving its marks and markings, giving your garden a rustic, chic, and captivating air.

6.       Vertical Garden

No room for a garden? No problem! This vertical garden construction gives you enough space for a dozen or so plants. Set against a wall, it includes box planters at the bottom, smaller boxes in varying heights, shelves for pots and bars for hanging. This is also a clever idea for small patios and apartment balconies.

7.       Modern Metallic

Metallic pots are the latest trend in garden and landscaping. The huge sleek pots come in silver, bronze, gold, and iron tones. Its shiny undertones provide the outdoor design a stunning and luxurious element. A great way to boost your kerb appeal.

8.       Whimsical Bicycle

Bicycles are hip, fun, and youthful. Used as a décor, it gives the space a whimsical and quirky look. This bicycle is painted baby blue and serves as base for several planters. Imaginative, unique, and eye-catching,

9.       White Geometrics

The interesting and unique shape of this modern planters foils the simplicity of white. Sleek and ultramodern, these planters will look stunning in a sea of green! The magnificent pots are perfect as verandah décor, pathway accent, or as the garden highlight.

10.   Tile Mosaic

Colourful as it is sleek, modern as it is classic. This tile mosaic planter idea is a perfect DIY project to jazz up the modern planters. You can find beautiful and colourful mosaic tiles in your local hardware store – bathroom tiles, ceramic pool tiles, glass, porcelain, mirror tiles, and a lot more!

11.   Grey Spheres

These stunning spheres are modern and perfect for the minimalist landscaping design. The grey concrete planters are cool, functional, and elegant. A spectacular addition to highlight a corner, the centre, or any section of the outdoors.

12.   Tiered Flower Baskets

Whimsical and pretty, this tiered flower baskets will bring nostalgia and charms to your garden. The intricate wrought iron frame gives an elegant and vintage appeal, while the basket planters provide pastoral charms to the design.

13.   Stencilled Concrete

Add colours to your garden by stencilling the planters! Get creative and give your garden a colourful and personal touch. This is best on DIY concrete planters, modern plain boxes, and even repurposed cinder blocks.

14.   Terracotta Pots

Terracotta planters and planters are garden mainstays. The classic and timeless element to gardening is common to most gardens around the world and is here to stay! Give your garden the warmth of terracotta with a twist, in the form of a unique and interesting shape.

15.   Repurposed Wheelbarrow

Instead of throwing away defective and unused garden implements, find a way to repurpose them. Charming and eye-catching, this wheelbarrow planter gives the garden a touch of fun and distinctiveness. A unique and deserving focal point to any garden.

16.   Planter Bench

Box planters are great additions to landscaping designs. They add depth and provide distinctions to the space. This box planter edges the patio separating it from the rest of the yard. Incorporating a seat is a smart and creative idea!

17.   Illuminated Planters

Illuminated planters are taking the landscaping design by storm. Bright and glowing pots are stunning and functional as they serve as the garden’s night lighting. These planters are painted with glow-in-the-dark add-ons like strontium aluminate or zinc sulphide.

18.   Upcycled Pallets

Colourful, perky, and delightful. These garden planters will bring in colour and charm to your outdoor space. The blue shades provide cool and snazzy beach vibes, while its pallet construction is charming and easy-going.

19.   Cinder Blocks

Want some modern concrete pots but don’t have the time to make them or the budget to buy them? These cinder block garden gives sleek modern look and posh air without costing you much. Paint the blocks in your preferred colour and pile them up as needed for your garden.

20.   Turquoise Ombre

Huge modern planters come in plain and neutral colours. Jazz up your planters with a bit of colour! This ombre turquoise planter is a stunner as it is unique and colourful. Pick your colour and have fun playing with shades this weekend.

21.   Chic Baskets

Understated chic and authentic charms. The chic basket planters will bring casual cool and classy looks to your garden, patio, or verandah. The neutral tones of wicker or bamboo blend in perfectly with the greens of the surroundings.

22.   Modern Bowls

Sleek and modern, these huge black bowls are the newest sensation in landscaping and gardening. They come in varying depths and widths and are also available in different colours and make. But the garden bowls are common in giving your outdoor spaces a stunning and polished look.

23.   Tipsy Tub Garden

Get creative and have fun constructing your own tipsy tub garden. You will need a few galvanised iron tubs and/or pails, a steadying rod or bar, and tools to bore holes on the iron. Stack up the tubs using the bar staked to the base. Fill the tubs with soil and proceed to planting your favourite flowering shrubs or herbs.

24.   Planter Fence

A planter and a fence in one. This perimeter fencing effectively separates your property from your neighbours’. Build it taller, add a latticed screen, or plant tall shrubs and you get a natural and beautiful privacy screen too.

25.   The Birdbath

Classy and timeless, elegant and beautiful. Converting birdbaths into succulent gardens will provide your garden or front yard a stunning highlight. This carved marble birdbath is marvellously elegant and will grace your garden for years.

26.   Farmhouse X-Planter

Rural charms and simplicity combined with practical functionality and constancy. The farmhouse X planter template has been with gardeners and landscapers for a very long time. Its charms and rustic elegant looks still serve today as it did a hundred years ago.

27.   Modern Shapes and Hues

Today’s modern planters come in basic shapes, clean lines, and neutral colours. Squares, rounds, trapezoids, rectangles, and geometrics. For the tones, natural elements are in – concrete greys, metallics, and earthy hues.

28.   Recycled Barrel

Add a touch of whimsy and a ton of charms to your garden with this recycled barrel planter. This could highlight your garden, accentuate your front yard or verandah, or be the garden itself! This barrel garden comes with a lighting fixture and a mix of wonderful flowering shrubberies.

29.   Modern Wall Pockets

Dress up a vacant fence wall with a vertical garden. Adding concrete wall pockets helps retain the sleek and modern finish of the wall and complements the minimalist landscaping while providing it with texture and colour.

30.   Planter Screen

Need a privacy screen and planters? This amazing and functional outdoor screen features several planters and boxes for your miniature garden. Adding plants and orchids upgrades your screen into a beautiful and colourful outdoor accent.

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