Junk Garden Whiskey Barrel Planter Ideas
March 06, 2024
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Do you have any whiskey barrel planters? I currently have two round ones and one horizontal one.
Oak barrel planters weather into an awesome grey patina that is perfect for a junk garden. Over the years, I have filled my barrel planters with a variety of annuals.
I like to layer some plastic milk or water bottles on the bottom of barrels. This saves on the amount of potting soil needed to fill the containers. The barrels also have drainage holes. I always empty the soil into a wheelbarrow first if I move a barrel planter to another location. (But sometimes the barrel bottom has rotted out so the barrel stays put!)
Above, my horizontal planter is filled with impatiens, asparagus ferns and filler vines. Several years ago, I decorated the barrel front with an aluminum cover. It's nailed on.
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Here the horizontal barrel planter has been moved to the back yard and is planted with spreading petunias in purple and red. Three galvanized buckets planted with petunias add height to the rear of the barrel planter.
Pansies fill the barrel and buckets here. This is one of my favorite barrel planter ideas. Pansies are so cute.
Orange lantana, calibrachoa, and bidens fill the horizontal barrel on deck on this summer.
This horizontal barrel held my kitchen fairy garden! A crazy idea with herbs and succulents planted with kitchen junk.
Another kitchen fairy garden in the horizontal barrel.
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Just fuchsias in a round barrel this year, but they were a beautiful color.
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The barrels fit in well with a garden junk vignette.
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Another junk vignette with a round barrel planter, gas cans, funnels and fuchsias.
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A bucket of angel wing begonias. golden creeping Jenny, and impatiens fill the barrel in this vignette.
Here in the same north front corner of my house is another junky vignette with wax and angel wing begonias.
Fuchsias in the bucket and impatiens in the round barrel.
Pink impatiens surround a bucket of coleus in this barrel under the tree.
Just last year, I filled the bucket with a Kimberly fern with fuchsias around the barrel edge.
The ferns were not big when planted in May.
Also from last season, a Kimberly fern in a bucket, and angel wing begonias and golden creeping Jenny in the barrel.
On the sunny deck, lobelia, white alyssum and a Sun-Patiens.
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I think this was the first year that I planted buckets in a barrel. Annuals include lobelia, swan river daisy, petunia and bacopa plants.
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