Garden Planters

        The Bladon is a tall tulip shaped wooden garden planter that would look elegant either side of a door or gate with  a specimen Bay or Box tree. The Bladon is constructed from Scandinavian red pine.  It features 75mm square corner posts and is in-filled with 25mm thick tongue and groove planking with screwed and plugged detailing. This detailing is the difference between our Bladon and Woodstock Planters.The internal walls of these planters are now painted with a waterproof  paint sealant.

        Tall or deep  planters provide colour  and  shape  at a good height above  the ground. A tall planter, offers the ideal fall for trailing foliage  plants such as periwinkles, particularly Vinca  minor 'Variegata' and 'Gertrude  Jekyll',  which has double white flowers.  Other pretty foliage trailers include the softly  textured lime-green  leaves of Helichrysum petiolare 'Limelight', the grey-green form of Helichrysum petiolare  or Plectranthus verticillatus.Trailing flowers such as lobelia, geraniums,  Cascade  and Surfinia  petunias  and creeping

Jenny also look great  flowing down tall planters.

                And nasturtiums, particularly  Tropaeolum  majus 'Alaska' with its creamy variegated foliage  and orange-yellow  flowers, tumble beautifully  over the sides of our Bladon planters. Large plants,  such as conifers.  some ferns,  and cacti  with

  deep taprootswill thrive in deep planters.  Lilies also need a deep  run for their massed fibrous roots. A deep planter is is also the best for for a formally shaped tree such as a standard bay or spiral box. Deep planters are also ideal  for growing fruit trees.  Apples, cherries, figs, peaches  and large fruit shrubs such as blueberries and gooseberries will all thrive  for many years in deep planters. Although growing any tree in a  planter will have a dwarfing effect,  in the case of apples. cherries and pears  it is also important to check

that the cultivar is on a dwarf rooting stock to start with.