Planter Insights
Discover expert tips, industry trends, and inspiring ideas for creating stunning commercial outdoor spaces with custom planters. Whether you're a landscape contractor, architect, or designer, you’ll find insights that will help you make informed decisions and elevate your projects.
Design Stunning Landscapes With Extra-Large Planters
When designers and landscape architects need stunning, upscale planter solutions, extra-large planters deliver on aesthetics and function. Extra-large planters provide ample space for trees and other plants to flourish, and they can become an unexpected focal point that stops people in their tracks.
Planters Used as Barriers or Bollards
Property owners want to protect their infrastructure and the people who use the space. Whether it’s local traffic or a distracted driver that you’re concerned about, barriers or bollards can help. But when you install barriers or bollards, they should not get in the way of the aesthetics of people using the space.
Weathering Steel Planters
When a landscape project calls for the modern industrial look of COR-TEN Weathering Steel Planter boxes, it’s important to achieve the right aesthetic and find a product that will be durable and functional. And it’s equally important to find a reliable planter product manufacturer.
Xeriscaping with Planters
Around the globe, water resources continue to dwindle. That’s why so many residential and commercial property owners are landscaping with water-conscious solutions like xeriscaping.
LITE Gauge Aluminum Planters: Lightweight Planters, Yet Durable
Landscape designers know selecting the right planter is important to the overall aesthetic and functionality of a project’s outcome. While color and design are big choices, the planter material you choose can influence the outcome of a project’s success.
What Are the Best Ways to Anchor Planters?
Setting aside time to plan the location of a planter will help determine if the planter will need more than just soil and plants. Strategically locating and even anchoring planters can protect them for years to come. Another important consideration is the contents of the planter.
The Value Engineering Guide - What Is It & How Does It Work?
You’ve worked with your client to draw up their dream landscape design project. But then you request bids for various pieces of the project. You’re excited to turn this gorgeous design into a reality.
Sidewalk Planters
Commercial properties that include unfinished but usable outdoor spaces can pose a unique design challenge for landscape architects.
4 Ways Campus Landscape Design Benefits Student Life
University finance teams tend to overlook campus landscape design when considering how colleges and universities generate revenue. But the look, feel, and functionality of your campus can have a make-or-break impact on whether students choose to attend. And that choice has a significant impact on revenue generation.
Why Is Soil Important to Plants?
In addition to serving as an anchor for a plant’s root system, soil holds nutrients and water that support life in any plant. And that’s just scratching the surface of the many essential functions soil provides for plants.
How to Use Planters for Biofiltration
Biofiltration is a natural process that reduces volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the air. Plants break down contaminants as they purify the air we breathe and the water we drink.
Retaining Edging: The Importance of Walls in Your Garden
Solutions like retaining walls must be carefully engineered to withstand the significant load that soil places on a wall and can be 20+ feet high. But for less soil, a shorter version of a retaining wall — called retaining edging — can be used.
Why Add Plants? Part 3: Social Benefits of Plants
Plants are so powerful that they can impact the quality of our lives and our social experience. By removing air pollution, reducing stress, encouraging physical activity, and promoting social ties and community, plants and trees promote health and overall social well-being.
Why Add Plants? Part 4: Why This Report Is So Important to the Green Industry
When consumers really understand the well-being benefits associated with people-plant interactions, they begin to realize plants are a necessity — rather than a luxury or a decorative afterthought.
Why Add Plants? Part 2: Physiological Benefits of Plants
Plants are so powerful that they can impact the quality of our lives. The physiological benefits of plants can elevate our cognitive well-being, improve sleep and immunity, and even reduce mortality rates.
Why add Plants? Part 1:Emotional and Mental Health Benefits of Plants
Plants are powerful. They elevate our spirits, act as a salve for mental and emotional deficits, boost productivity and self-esteem, and much more.
Custom Metal Planters: The Best Option for Your Plants
Have you ever imagined the perfect metal planter for a design project — one that would unify the entire look and feel of the space — only to realize it’s nowhere to be found?
How to Set Color and Style Tones with Trough Planters
When your project calls for planters that are durable enough to handle big bushes and plants, trough planters are an ideal option.
Privacy with Planters
Design projects — whether indoors or outdoors — often have the ultimate goal of creating a peaceful respite for your client. However, achieving this goal can be difficult when the footprint of the space is tight.
6 Configurations of Large Planters in Stunning Landscape Design
Inspiration comes in many forms. Images in books or magazines, a peek in a beautifully designed yard, or simply an idea someone mentions — really anything can plant the seed of a new idea.