Design Principle – Add Shape and Form to Your Container

Just like any other design, you start with an idea and then with a plan. Your garden containers and planters are no different. It is very important to give your arrangement a shape using your favorite plants. To add form, you can use a wire frame, lovely piece of ornamental trellis or just branches. Whether your garden planters are in a formal or informal setting, think about what style you want to create. Do you have a favorite planting arrangement?

Another Inside Garden Pot Idea

The state of the guest room becomes important at this time of the year. You want to make it special, cozy and fresh smelling for those important people. A great idea is to plant a small pot or container with rosemary. If you are too late in the season to find a fresh plant, just use rosemary boughs to create a small evergreen shape. This adds not only color but fragrance as well to the room.

Christmas for the Birds

Smear peanut butter on all sides of seasonal wooden ornaments that you can purchase in craft or novelty stores. I pick mine up at craft sales during the year. Press dried bird seed, cranberries and nuts into the peanut butter and hang. The birds love it and you have an original feeder.

Finishing Touch for Your Garden Urns

This is a great way to enhance your garden urns this season with those materials found in your garden.  Fill your modern garden urn with soil or sand. Place a piece of chicken wire over the earth/sand.  Now you can begin. Start at the outer edges with your greens alternating around the urn with the different varieties.  Fill to overflowing. Then you can add those other items, dogwood, sumac, hydrangeas and berries.  As you know, I usually find some colored oranments and lace them in groups of three right into the arrangement.  Looks fantastic!

Principles of Design – Pots and Urns

How to add that sense of abundance to your garden containers! Fill your garden pots until full to overflowing with flowers and greenery. The same holds true if you are decorating your modern garden urns for the festive season with dried branches and berries from the garden. If you have the room, arrange clusters of garden planters to give a very generous look to your decor.

Window Box Display – What to Include

If you don’t have a lot of time to decorate your home for the festive season, how about creating a garden window box display. Just take your outdoor planter, and fill with boughs of every kind of greenery that you can find, from cedar, eucalyptus and pine branches. Now you have a varied green background, you are ready to add bright red berries, pine cones and even curly willow to add height. I think that colored bows and dollar store ornaments make it even more attractive. Let me know what you have done with your garden decor for the Season

Festive Look Using Garden Urns

You can add white lights to greenery in your garden containers to create a very festive decoration for the holidays. Your garden planter urn can be left as is, raised on a pedestal or placed on a table to create a very dramatic focal point for your room during the holidays. It is especially welcoming in the entrance/hallway - the first thing your guests see on their way into your home.