Do you love plants? Well you can show your love by giving your garden a designer feel. Keeping pots and plants only on the ground is passe, try some shelves and hooks to jazz up your garden. Whether they are flowers, herbs or even some vegetables, keeping plants at eye level will immediately catch everyone’s attention.
They will help you space out your plants so that they get adequate sunlight to grow and flourish and if placed strategically can also help you hide the ugly corners and the utility boxes that you can’t do without but which make any space look cramped.
Plant shelves take the attention away from the utility boxes and make the space livelier and greener. Here are some DIY ways to create outdoor shelves to keep the attention away from those big, bad and ugly utility boxes.
Bottle Hangers
Why throw away your glass bottles when you can put them to good use? You can use them as pots for your little plants, especially the creepers that can create an aesthetic look. You can hang your favourite flower, plants or wildflowers. Wrap a twine or string around the bottle and hang it from a tree or hook. You can also hang them from the ceiling.
Use Tiles To Make A Shelf
If you are in the mood for some really out-of-the-box art, then utilise tiles to make a planter. Orientbell Tiles’s vast range of mosaic tiles are a great choice for the same. Since they are smaller in size, when combined together, they make for a beautiful and colourful planter. To begin with, start with a sombre colour of blue and off white. Orientbell Tiles’ BDM EC Mosaic Blue is perfect for this experiment. If you like the effect, you could graduate to mixing mosaic tiles of different colours.
Similarly, you can also make a shelf with tiles. Again, mosaic tiles are a great option for this. Combine them with other highlighter tiles and make a unique-looking shelf. Easy to clean, this tile is resistant to scratches and stains. It doesn’t easily react to any kind of chemical or acid spillage, they are perfect for gardens.
Hanging Basket Plant Stand
Hanging baskets and plants are such space savers! Hanging basket plant stands are a great way to hang a small plant at your home’s entryway. They can also be used indoors.
Wall Plants
Put your outdoor plants to good use. Try attaching small pots to a fence or prop up a pallet against the side of your house to plant flowers or herbs. Just make sure the space gets plenty of sunshine. You can even cut open plastic bottles to use them as planters and hang them on your walls.
Turn Shoe Stand Into Plant Shelves
Who knew you can utilise your shoe stands as plant shelves? A wooden shoe stands to be specific. Take out your old shoe stand, dismantle the doors and keep them open. Place your plants inside it but ensure they face natural sunlight.
Incremental Storage Plant Unit
If you are making an incremental storage stand for your house, you can also make one for your outdoor area. Incremental storage units have a broad base which tapers to the top. This way, you can fit in many plants and still make it look artsy. Plus, due to its tapering pattern, the unit will not be crowded and allow the plants to grow.
Make Another Shelf Over The Seating Bench
If you have a seating area in your garden, add a shelf on top. Make a shelf equivalent to the seating area right on top. However, ensure it’s sturdy enough to not cave down from the planters’ weight. Again, do not cram up the space with too many pots as that might disbalance the shelf.
Keep In Mind
The biggest factor to remember while building DIY plant shelves or racks or holders is to understand the space to plants ratio. You cannot place umpteen plants together in a space that can only accommodate a few of them.
Shelves are huge space savers. If you don’t have space on the ground, you can utilise the walls or the overhanging space over the seating areas in the porch by making a shelf. There are numerous ways you can make use of the outdoor space to divert the attention from the big and boxy utility containers. Plus, if you put hanging pots, then space is no issue at all!
