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Winchester Wooden Garden Planter (Pine)
The Winchester is just the right size and shape for specimen trees (e.g. Clipped Box, Bay, Privet, Olive - balls, spirals or pyramids). A classic shape with Farrow and Ball paint finish.
Made from Scandinavian Red Pine, the corner posts are 75mm x 75mm with 50mm x 50mm cross pieces, jointed into the corner posts. The sides are infilled with 20 mm planks while the bases have 20mm thick slats for drainage. The internal walls of these planters are now painted with a waterproof paint sealant.
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Planter Dimensions: 55x55x65(h)cm
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Planters, perfect for a year round welcome.
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Foliage and flowers soften the hard textures of masonry and paving, and show a welcoming face to you and your visitors. Planted planters are the perfect solution for a year round welcome.
It is all too easy to devote your energies to the back garden and ignore the front of the house, hurrying past to get indoors. But, whether your ideal is roses round the door or a more formal effect it is good to give your front door a welcoming look. Here, planters come into their own, providing a flexible garden that you can change and keep fresh with the seasons.
Your choice of planters and plants will be determined, in part, by the architecture of your home and the style of the front door - although, if you live by a busy road, you may be wise to consider pollution-tolerant
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Plants for your Planters
| To help you select the best plants for your planters. Here is a list of two hundred plants, with pictures, for planters listed by colour & season.
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Planters, perfect for a year round welcome.
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species such as cranesbills, geum and Veronica. The formal doorways of many town houses call for a symmetrical design, and a pair of plants in matching planters is often the best option here. Choose conifers or lollipop bays for all-year effect,
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Planters, perfect for a year round welcome.
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fuchsias or standard marguerites for a light summer touch.
Square oak planters or Versailles planters work particularly well.
Alternatively you might be guided by, colour, choosing a scheme that tones with the door itself, opting for all white, or using foliage with different textures, shapes and hues. If you have no porch, you can crate pillars of flowers instead. Place planters filled with summer bedding on either side of the door and suspend hanging baskets above them. Then train annual climbers such as canary creeper to grow up strips of trellis fixed to the to the walls behind the planters.
Planters are vulnerable to theft, so you may wish secure your planters with chains and rings set into the wall, or deter thieves with a -stake driven through the base of your planter.
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