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When it comes to elevating your gardening game and adding a touch of elegance to your outdoor space, tall planters stand tall as a versatile and eye-catching choice. However, before you go purchasing all the tall pots you can see, it's important to understand that these towering beauties require careful consideration and planning when it comes to filling them with the right combination of soil, plants, and techniques.
If you find yourself wondering how to fill a tall planter effectively to ensure optimal plant growth and visual impact, you've come to the right place. In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into the art of filling tall planters, providing you with expert tips, step-by-step instructions, and creative ideas to transform your planters into breathtaking focal points that will leave everyone green with envy.
To begin, we'll take a look at a few benefits of tall planters. After that, we'll focus on the steps you need to take to fill these planters before finally getting into some great ideas for using tall planters in container gardening.
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What Are The Benefits Of Tall Garden Planters?
While this article is focusing all on tall plant pots, you might be wondering what the benefits of these planters are in the first place. To give you an idea of some so you're better prepared when you decide to start using them yourself, here are a list of the benefits of tall planters.
Vertical Impact
Perhaps the most obvious benefit, the vertical impact that you get from a tall planter and tall plants make them worthy options for any kind of container gardening. The fact of the matter is, whether you have a small balcony or a sprawling garden, tall planters work virtually anywhere, instantly adding visual interest to any kind of indoor or outdoor setting.
On top of this, it's possible to have thin and tall planters (which we'll talk a little bit more about later on), so regardless of how much space you have, you'll still be able to introduce beautiful greenery to it!
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Space Optimization
Piggy backing off of what we just mentioned, tall planters offer an excellent solution for maximizing space utilization. By utilizing vertical space, you'll be able to grow a variety of plants without taking up excessive floor space. This is particularly beneficial for urban dwellers or those with limited gardening areas.
Privacy and Screening
Once you start using a tall planter, one of the more natural benefits that will come out of it will be the fact that you're able to introduce privacy and screening with the pot and plant. By strategically placing a planter in an area that lets in the outside gaze, or, by simply potting a plant that will act as a barrier, you're able to have stunning foliage that's also functional!
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Versatility
Tall planters offer incredible versatility when it comes to plant selection. From towering ornamental grasses and elegant bamboo to vibrant flowering vines and cascading ivy, these planters can accommodate a wide range of plant species, allowing you to unleash your creativity and experiment with various styles and aesthetics.
Accessibility
Though not often considered, the height of tall planters makes gardening more accessible for individuals with physical limitations or those who prefer to minimize bending and kneeling. With a tall planter, you can tend to your plants comfortably, reducing strain on your back and knees--say goodbye to annoying back pains!
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Root Health
Last on our list of tall planter benefits has to do with root health. Tall planters provide ample depth for plant roots to grow and thrive. This promotes healthier root systems, allowing plants to access necessary nutrients and water more efficiently. Improved root health often translates into stronger, more vibrant plants which makes landscaping that much more rewarding. Though it's recommended to use a large planter with large plants, it's difficult to know just how large the planter needs to be, and there could be negative consequences. For example, if you try to use a large tree in a smaller pot, you could essentially suffocate the roots.
Want to know the best planter sizes to choose for luscious healthy plants? Check out our guide to plant pot sizes for more
How Do You Fill A Tall Planter?
There are numerous ways to fill a tall planter, and if you're someone with zero experience, figuring it all out might seem trickier than it actually is. To help assuage any confusion, we'll outline the process for you below. However, before that, let's take a look at a few supplies you might need.
What Do You Need To Pot Plants In A Tall Planter?
- A plant pot
- Potting soil/garden soil
- Filler material (lightweight pot fillers or heavy pot fillers)
- Drainage holes (if your pot doesn't have any, you can either drill them in or use a cache pot instead!)
- A plant
Now you have a better idea of the supplies you might need, let's see what the actual steps are to getting your pot filled.
Check For Drainage Holes
First and foremost, you're going to want to check that the planter you're using has drainage holes. The reason for this is because the potting soil of plants need to allow for proper water runoff to ensure the soil doesn't remain too wet. Drainage holes take care of this problem.
While this entire collection of fiberglass planters allows you to choose whether you want drainage holes or not, if the pot you end up purchasing doesn't come with any, there are two solutions. First, you could drill a hole yourself. However, if you're not comfortable working with power tools, or you simply don't want to damage the planter you're using, another option is to use a cache pot.
A cache pot is a secondary pot that comes with a drainage hole. Essentially, you'll have the plant potted inside the cache pot and then slot that one inside the larger planter. This allows you to properly water the plant without running the risk of over watering.
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Prepare Filler Material
This next step is where container gardening with a tall planter can seem a bit more complicated. The fact is, you have several options when deciding how you want to go about filling a tall pot.
While you can just fill tall planters with potting soil or garden soil, soil is heavy and with a large planter, this will contribute to making the transport of said pot very difficult. On top of this, the cost of high quality potting soil from your local garden center can add up if you're using too much of it, so be wary of this.
As a way to solve this issue, many gardeners use filler material to fill the bottom space in a planter. Of these, there are two options.
Lightweight Fillers
- Styrofoam packing peanuts or styrofoam blocks are great. To keep them together, put packing peanuts in an empty potting soil bag.
- Using recycled materials is great as you're saving the environment while container gardening! How about recycled cardboard, plastic milk jugs, plastic bottles, plastic containers, aluminum cans...
- Wood chips, pine cones, leaves, and other natural materials also work great as lightweight pot fillers.
Heavy pot fillers
While it might seem counterintuitive to use heavy fillers, these are ideal when you need to hold down larger plants in lightweight planters, or for more permanent installations. Some options are:
- Broken pottery, broken ceramic, or other broken pieces of brick, rock, or wood.
- Sand
- Gravel
Fill The Bottom Of The Pot
Now you know what filler materials work, start filling the bottom half of your plant pots. Regardless of if you're using lightweight fillers or heavy pot fillers, you'll want to pack everything in tight and then use something like landscaping fabric to separate the potting soil from filler.
Fill The Top Of The Pot
Once you have the filler separated with landscaping fabric, go ahead and start filling the top half of the pot with potting soil. Anything from your local garden center is recommended, as it has proper nutrients to feed the plant's roots.
Read up on this guide of why fiberglass planters are so great.
Start Planting!
Now you can start planting and seeing the fruits of your labor. Larger plants work better than smaller plants with tall pots, but you can still get away with smaller sized greenery.
Ultimately, the most important thing is to understand your plant's individual care-taking requirements for the best results.
5 Ideas For Plants In Tall Planters
Tall Corner Planters Are Great Space Savers
Kicking off our list of tall planter ideas, how about making the most out of limited space with a tall pot in a corner?
This idea is great because it lets you bring life to corners, often considered one of the trickiest spots in a room to fill. To make the most out of this idea, all you really have to do is choose between a square, rectangular, or round planter like the Corry Cylinder Planter and voila, you've filled up a corner!
In terms of actual greenery, small trees would work, or, better yet, how about famously low maintenance plants like Snake Plants and Zz Plants? Despite their low maintenance, they're extremely stylish too!
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With A Bit Of Space, Place Tall Pots Anywhere
If you're lucky enough to be in a property with a bit of space, what you can do is place tall pots anywhere for a more grandiose display of greenery.
As seen in the image above, here we have a Valencia Tall Round Tapered Planter bringing a sense of relaxing green to a gym. Other locations this would work in would be places like a hotel, restaurant, resort, office space, or, if you're really lucky--home sweet home!
How about rectangle planters? Read up on these 6 Amazing Rectangle Planter Ideas
A Private Oasis On The Rooftop
Our third tall planter idea takes you a few levels up a hotel, restaurant, or house where you can start toying with planters on the rooftop. This is ideal for really introducing a sense grandeur to any property, as nothing really screams luxury than outdoor planters on a roof.
As pictured above, how about trying a Potsdam Rectangular Planter for this? Not only will you be able to keep outside eyes, outside, you'll also be able to plant all kinds of greenery--Whether that be bushier grass or tall, lovely palm trees!
Need tips for using a square pot? We've got you covered with this post on square planter ideas!
Frame Walkways With Planters
Last on our list of ideas with tall pots, how about framing walkways with planters? This idea really allows you to use space as efficiently and beautifully as possible, with the plant pot functioning as both a barrier and aesthetic decor!
In the above image, the planter used is a Tolga Rectangular Planter. A naturally sleek and stylish pot, you're able to frame a walkway effectively by placing a collection of these planters side by side, thereby giving people direction when they move around your property. The addition of red, leafy plants make this a match made in Heaven!
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Frame Doorways!
Once again taking a cue from the previous tip, how about framing with doorways as well? Similar to framing with walkways but relatively simpler, all you have to do with this is place two planters on either side of a door, pot a plant of your liking inside, and there you have it, a framed doorway!
This tip is great because it's so simple while the rewards are so great. Just imagine how much more of a welcome it is when a front entrance has greenery by it instead of being empty?
To try this out, how about using something like the Alicante Fluted Round Planter? While this comes in smaller sizes, by opting for the taller, larger option, you're really able to make a statement at your front door.
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