Decorating Your Porch with Deck Rail Planters
You absolutely adore your garden and are thrilled with the
brilliant colors and designs that stare back at you when you admire the
yard from your post on the porch. Everything out there,
including the lawn and garden décor trinkets outdoor furniture, and dog houses are perfect,
and you get a great deal of satisfaction from that
realization. However, you are unhappy with the way it all
ends abruptly at the foot of your porch. While you may have
decorated the porch with some nice cedar outdoor furniture,
it’s lacking color and natural beauty. Maybe you
could extend the beauty of your garden up onto the porch with deck rail
planters, creating a means for continuing the colorful theme all the
way to your door.
Depending on how much color you want to bring to your porch, you can
choose to have just one or two deck rail planters, or you can line your
entire rail with them. You can choose to plant flowers in the
boxes, or you can stick with greenery and leafy plants. If
you want to get creative, there are even a number of small vegetables
that will grow rather well in deck rail planters, including cherry or
plum tomatoes and small peppers.
In choosing the rail planters you intend to use, you have an endless
number of styles and sizes, bearing in mind that you will only have so
much space on your deck rail. However, in terms of materials
from which to choose, your best option is wood, specifically
cedar. A cedar rail planter will last longer than almost any
other material because cedar is durable and weather resistant due to
its natural properties. Wood Planters never need to be treated but can
be stained to the shade of your choice or painted to match other garden
décor or cedar patio furniture if you so desire.
Deck rail planters are easy to use and planted the same as any other
pot you’ll use, lining the bottom with small rocks, adding
soil, and then either seeds or bulbs or your plants, then topping off
with potting soil and making sure any roots are completely
covered. You should follow instructions per seed or plant for
distance to maintain between two units to assure that they have enough
growing and breathing space. Just be sure the planter is
balanced well when placing it on the railing.
If you love what you see when you look at the garden from your porch
but feel it’s too far out of reach, add some deck rail
planters to your design, and bring the garden closer to you. Just be sure to have a bird feeder
around in your garden, since you now have a beautiful set of flowers
growing in your planters, you don't want any birds landing in them and
tearing them up.