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.

Commercial Parking Lot: 10 Transformational Landscaping Ideas

In this article, you’ll find ten practical ideas that will improve aesthetics, function, and safety for any commercial parking lot landscape plan. We’ve also included tips for avoiding common pitfalls and considerations when hiring a professional landscaper.

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7 Ways to Protect Your Top-Heavy Plants

When adding plants to your space, it’s important to make sure they’re stable. And since many plants are top-heavy in nature, here’s how you can easily stabilize top-heavy plants! Here’s something you’re probably not thinking about when designing your space: the risks and challenges posed by top-heavy plants.

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Modern Grow Lights: Best Light to Use for Indoor Plants

In this guide, you’ll learn all about the best light for indoor plants and how to pick the right ones for your needs. From the Kelvin scale to light types, specifications including lumens and watts, and best practices for using grow lights, we have you covered.

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Landscape Planter Manufacturer

There is a lot that goes into meeting your clients’ needs. You need to discuss their budget, know project deadlines, discourage or encourage modifications, and source plants and planters. With so much on your plate, you need a good landscape planter manufacturer, like PureModern, to help you decide which planter fits your clients’ parameters.

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Outdoor Restaurant Design: 6 Knock-Out Restaurant Patio Design Ideas

Patio season is here. And for restaurants, that means months full of outdoor brunches, casual business lunches, date-night dinners, and evening cocktails. Your patio is almost as important as your menu. After all, guests love visiting an incredible venue as much as they enjoy amazing food.

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Influential Designer: Louis Sullivan

Many people think the genesis of modern architecture was the Bauhaus, modernism, postmodernism, or—more recently—parametricism movements. However, modern architecture dates back to the late 1800s. And for all the credit that Gropius, Nakashima, and Lloyd Wright receive, they owe much to one man—Louis Henry Sullivan.

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How Do Self-Watering Pots & Planters Work?

Plants are an investment that, unfortunately, you can’t put into the corner like a comfy club chair. Plants need attention; your attention, otherwise you will be investing much more than anticipated. Each plant has its specific requirements for soil, nutrients, light exposure, and water.

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Your Guide to Picking the Perfect Hotel Planters

The entryway of a hotel is one of the first things that greets guests and sets the tone for their stay. And since you only get one chance at a first impression, the entrance is a perfect place to include commercial outdoor planters for hotels. With the right hotel planters, you can create a welcoming and visually-appealing environment that gets guests excited and gives them an idea of the type of experience they’ll have at your hotel.

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