DIY Tiered Flower Planter
This easy DIY tiered planter is a great showpiece for your front door bursting with flowers all season long.
Yield: 1
Cost: $10-$15
Equipment
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Materials
- Base flower pot
- Dollar store 10-inch hanging basket
- Styrofoam cone
- Dowel rod
- Black spray paint
- Sphagnum moss
- Potting soil
- Flowers
Instructions
- Fill your base planter with soil.
- Insert a styrofoam cone into the bottom of a dollar store hanging basket.
- Spray paint the dowel rod black.
- Push the dowel rod up through the styrofoam cone securing it with a little hot glue.
- Then push the other end into the soil, leaving 10 or so inches between the bottom of the basket and the top of the soil in the base pot.
- Line the basket with sphagnum moss that you have soaked with water.
- Add soil to the basket.
- Plant flowers in the basket and all around the dowel in the base planter.
Notes
Choose flowers that will grow well in the area you plan to set the planter whether a porch or patio. If you have a sunny location you might want to plant herbs or strawberries.
Trailing flowers work best in the bottom base pot while upright look good in the top basket.
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