Instead
of shopping for new clay or plastic planters for your flowers or
greenery, go to yard sales, and buy rustic wood trunks for your garden.
These rustic trunks will add interest to your garden. A container that is different from the norm will not only enable your
plants to grow but will also be a focal area in your yard and garden.
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| Grow petunia in a rustic trunk planter |
Here
is a digital design that I created to show one of the clients how she
could utilize one of her vintage trunks. In her case, the trunk would
be set up on a sunny porch that had rain protection.
Before
planting in a wooden trunk I would recommend that you apply
a
water seal to protect the wood. Also, you would not fill the trunk
with soil but you would drop in a plastic shelf about 10 inches into
the trunk. Then on top, you would add your self-watering planters for
your flowers, herbs, or sweet potato vines.
This
open trunk planter is unique and adds tremendous interest to your
garden.
