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When it comes to sprucing up your garden, using Tree Stump Planter Ideas can be a smart and creative idea. We’ve bought you simple yet impressive ways to turn tree stumps into eye-catching plant containers.
Why Tree Stump Planters?
Often, gardeners face a common problem — what to do with the saw-cut stumps of old or diseased trees. Uprooting them is a laborious task and also not cheap. But what if you could turn these into something useful? Something beautiful?
We know exactly what you should make. A tree trunk planter! You will save money; they’ll look great and natural, and they go well with the shades of any plant – so why not?
How to Make a Tree Stump Planter
Plants for a Tree Stump Planter
You can create a fabulous planter out of a tree stump. Plants you grow in it may not necessarily be flowering and colorful ones. It can be a climbing plant, creating a great frame around the stump or even moss; if it is in a shade, you can choose interesting foliage plants that thrive in less sunlight.
Pick plants that are suitable to the style of your garden. It can either be a few blooming or grassy species. Petunias, nasturtiums, pansies, or whatever you like.
Ferns, wildflowers, coneflowers, marigolds, phlox, there are so many options. You can grow other plants around it too. A tree stump planter will not go unnoticed and become one of the most beautiful focal points of your garden.
Tip: You can grow whatever plant you choose for your tree stump planter, but remember, shallow-root plants are most successful in it.
Tree Stump Planter Ideas
1. Tree Stump Planter with Violet Flowers
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2. Floral Planter from Tree Trunk
3. Purple Rock Cress on Tree Stump
4. Container Garden in Tree Stump
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7. Tulips on a Tree Trunk
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9. Pink and Red Flowers on a Stump
10. Fairy Home Garden from Tree Stump
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45 11. Tree Stump with Multiple Planters
12. Marigold Tree Stump Pot
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15. Low Height Tree Stump for Plants
16. Hollow Tree Trunk as Pot
17. Tree Stump with Stonecrop Flowers
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19. Red and Yellow Tulips
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Check the yellow tulips’ meaning in this post 20. Tree Stump Flower Idea with Petunias
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18 21. Pots on a Stump Idea
22. Tree Stump Succulent Planter
22. Tree Stump Succulent Planter
Wow those were some stunning examples.
Be aware that if the tree roots are still alive they’ll continue to sucking up the nutrients from the soil. Fine if you have a lawn around it but not if you’re growing plants and vegetables around it.
Great ideas
Just had a dead tree sawn down to ground level, so welcome your ideas. Thank you! Possibly the fern idea is good.
I have 100 poplar stumps around my (now) pasture and would like to drill a hole in each and plant a blue spruce in each to be harvested in a few years as Christmas trees. What are the odds for survival/growth
What’s #3? Would love to put something like that in our stump
Steve I’m guessing thrift / phlox
Not 100% but from the picture it looks like a creeping phlox.
what did they paint number18 with
I’m guessing it’s just a clear shellac or clear gloss enamel.I have a huge willow stump in my yard that I stained then clear coated.Its 4 ft in diameter I want a plant or several that will grow and creep down the sides,I left it 5 ft tall for that purpose.
Any recommendations on perennials that could be used in a stump planter? Love
Creeping coleus trails very nice, and I used a coir container that fit perfectly instead of planting inside the stump (optional)
I have a crumbling stump. The tree itself had a fungus and was cut down. We left the stump bc it was covered by a bush and tulips. I decided to pull the bush to add some plants for pollinators and saw the roots of the stump are crumbling away. It has giant mushrooms. Can I just stomp the crumbling remains and cover with more soil for my pollinator garden? It seems silly to dig out and throw away what the mushrooms broke down.
Love the brilliant ideas. Inspiration for my 2 big cedar stumps… Thank you!
Anyone know what flower is in #3? This is exactly what I want to do