Container gardening has given a new meaning to the entire concept of gardening. It’s the perfect solution to manage your landscaping needs. Garden pots and planters offer an enormous amount of visual interest in both residential and business spaces. Landscape design ideas are usually hard to come by when you do container gardening.
For Monty Don of the BBC television series Gardeners’ World:
Anything that can be grown in soil can be raised in a container, and as long as it has some drainage and is wider at the top than at the bottom, any vessel that will hold compost and take regular watering can be pressed into service.
Gardening in containers is a convenient way to add splashes of color and natural beauty to your environment. To get you started, here are popular landscape design ideas just for you!
Tip #1 Fill Empty Spaces with Planters
In public buildings, there are often small areas that constantly fill up with trash, even though a trash receptacle is steps away. Why is this so? Because these areas don’t have any purpose. These little spaces are everywhere.
However, designing these spaces with gardening containers tells the public that the space is valuable and contributes to the building’s friendly demeanor.
Whether it’s in a small reception area, or a hospital waiting room, a simple and tidy plant grouping welcomes the visitor and fills the space with a sunny disposition. With a landscape architect’s sensitive eye for detail, a variety of design concepts with planting pots can be implemented.
Hedvig Murray, UK permaculture designer and educator, shares that a great way to fill empty spaces is to map it out first.
Take photos at different times of day to discover how the sun varies across your space. Observing and interacting and can lead to a great outcome.
It would even be a nice surprise to find plants in a public rest room. It might help to alleviate the smell of disinfectant or possibly diminish the overbearing aroma of an air freshener.
Tip #2 Use Planters for the Modern Office
Many companies have chosen to take on a near futuristic look in their office décor. Pots and planters need to be able to fit right in. When using planters to create the modern office, these characteristics should help you choose for that environment.
Geometric Shapes
This rule goes for exterior planters as well as indoor planters. Choosing planters that have unique but simple shapes rooted in geometry can help to advance the image of the modern office.
The idea is to convey a focused, streamlined, and sleek look. By getting a little creative, you can create an interesting and unique design through shape alone. Matt Biggs of Gardeners World UK says “To look right, a pot should be about 1/3 of the height of the tallest plants.”
Colour Scheme
Most offices have some sort of colour scheme throughout. Usually, it’s mainly white or black with splashes of vibrant colour. It’s up to you whether you want the planter to blend in with the colour scheme, accent it, or make it pop out.
When utilising planters as the bright colour, keep the shape very simple and geometric, without any frills, and keep the plants inside of them plain. Ferns are a good option for bright coloured planters.
Material and Texture
The material of the planter depends entirely upon the office environment to which it belongs. Keep the material either natural in tone, metallic, or sleek.
Many modern offices have wood as a decorative accent. Being able to use those natural properties to the overall design, is a great way to ensure that the planters fit their environment aesthetically.
The modern office is not built for overly embellished appearances, so keeping the material and texture sleek and simple is the best way to go.
When choosing your pot, as a rule it’s better to stick to just one or two different materials. Gardeners’ World UK recommends to take your cue from the style of the surrounding.
Red brick buildings are enhanced by terracotta containers, while a modern plot is the best backdrop for galvanised metal pots.
Tip #3 Arrange Potted Plants
Just because the potted plant is small does not mean that the pot itself can’t be artistic. The arrangement of these pots can be the main attraction. You just have to do the right style of arrangement to create the desired effect.
“An eclectic group of small containers to create a quirky, ever-changing corner. Repetition can be effective, and garden designers will often use three or more identical containers planted with the same plants for maximum impact,” according to Gardeners’ World.
Create and Demarcate Levels
Potted plants can add depth to any room or outdoor area if you create and demarcate levels. Use a few, small potted plants to line the porch railing, adorn the top of your refrigerator, or even use in the place of candles on a wall sconce.
It should not look as though a row of jars or pots were set up; instead, it should be artistic, preferably with plants that flow over the edge and almost hide most of the pot itself.
Utilise Old instruments
Many old instruments can be repurposed as planters. If you have an antique fiddle or an old trumpet, might as well put them to new use. It can add class and charm as well as a unique appearance to the room or outdoor area.
Hang the fiddle on the wall, fill the center, or hollow, part with soil, and insert a small potted plant, guiding the vines and leaves through the strings for artistic effect.
Make Them Your Centerpiece
Using potted plants as centerpieces is a great way to add some design and style to the outside or inside of a home.
The dining area should not be overly burdened with large pots and plants that take over the entire table. However, a few, small, well-appointed plants can provide an attractive location for visitors to sit, eat, and chat.
Courtney Olander, a professional Horticulturalist, adds “A pot can be used as a point of interest at the end of a path, at the center of a courtyard or to help spruce up a secret seating nook.”
Don’t Line them Up
When arranging with potted plants, one of the biggest mistakes people make is to line them all up. It’s a recipe for a cluttered appearance and a rather boring aesthetic. Instead, try clustering a few plants here and there in a triangular form.
You can place either two slightly taller ones at the back, or a small one in front, or vice versa. An arrangement that consists of various sizes of pots, types of plants, and location, in other words not in a straight line, will provide the best results.
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