Planter in a bed on a Pedestal
A tip to spice up your plant beds
If you have a wide plant bed and it needs a focal point - try placing a pedestal or rock as a base and pace a planter on it. Here I did it with a classical pot and pedestal but you can be quite arty if you choose. Easy Peasy.
This planter was in part shade so I used a hybrid begonia, diamond frost euphorbia, pink callibrachoa and vinca vine. The grasses are Japanese Forest grass.
I so agree -- I love the juxtaposition of the work by the human hand and the natural when you put an urn in a bed. I discovered this by accident a few years ago when we parked a client's urn and pedestal in a bed to get them out of harm's way during work -- and then loved the look! I recently convinced a client with a modest front stoop and two mismatched planters -- an urn and a box -- to select matched planters and then move the urn into the back shade garden! With white dipladenia and some trailing Lysimachia nummularia (and a little golden oregano), it's a bright light there but there's room for other color to be used in the bed. If a pair of urns or pots is no longer a pair due to damage or breaking, it's worth trying the one that's left in a garden vignette.
I so agree -- I love the juxtaposition of the work by the human hand and the natural when you put an urn in a bed. I discovered this by accident a few years ago when we parked a client's urn and pedestal in a bed to get them out of harm's way during work -- and then loved the look! I recently convinced a client with a modest front stoop and two mismatched planters -- an urn and a box -- to select matched planters and then move the urn into the back shade garden! With white dipladenia and some trailing Lysimachia nummularia (and a little golden oregano), it's a bright light there but there's room for other color to be used in the bed. If a pair of urns or pots is no longer a pair due to damage or breaking, it's worth trying the one that's left in a garden vignette.