Fancy a great (and easy) garden DIY project? Pallet planter ideas are IT! Pallet furniture may be time consuming, but making a pallet planter is dead easy, and there are all sorts of configurations you can try. Paint your pallet planter or leave it natural; nestle plants on it or in the gaps; cut it up and reconfigure it or use it just as it was when it came off the skip you found it on... Explore a range of shapes, heights, and sizes below.
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1. Use pallet planters for displaying pot plants
Smaller-sized pallets will look great to accessorise a decking area. Paint yours to match the colour of your deck, or leave them natural to create a more rustic look. You can also mix and match pallet furniture with pallet planters for an all-wood outdoor area.
Find more decking ideas in our gallery.
2. Make your pallet planters portable
The rotten fencing was replaced with sleeker wooden panels with horizontal slats, painted white to reflect light around the garden. ‘I’ve also painted the pergola blue and some of the planters lilac to add more colour to the space,’ Maxine says. Fencing and pergola, Grange (opens in new tab). Furniture painted in Mendip Mist, fences in China Clay and planters in Winter Sky,
all Protek Wood Stain (opens in new tab). House painted in Spearmint masonry paint, Little Greene (opens in new tab)
Like rearranging your garden set-up? Make your pallet planters portable – all you need is some castor wheels (opens in new tab), which you can easily get from a hardware store. They work particularly well on tall planters, like the ones used in this garden.
3. Make a pallet plant stand
If you have lots of smaller pots already, a large pallet or two will make a perfect plant stand for them. Simply take the planks off on one side and either reinsert to make a shelf, or stack two on top of each other for a multi-tiered plant stand.
4. Use a pallet planter to start a kitchen garden
A pallet can make an excellent home for a kitchen or herb garden. You can fill the entire pallet with compost if you're growing just one type of herb or vegetable, or you can create a grid with a few extra planks if you want to separate the different plants. We love this one by @paletdecor (opens in new tab). Worth a follow, too, if you like pallets and upcycling.
Find out how to plan a kitchen garden in our guide.
5. Fill a pallet planter with succulents
Pallets make for wonderful succulent display – because you can use the gaps between the pallet planks as well as the top. Choose small-sized succulents to make sure they fit in the gaps. This one was captured by @thisdoesntsucculent (opens in new tab) and it's brill. Worth a follow if you're a succulent fan!
