How to Design Holiday Porch Pots

This year, don’t settle for store-bought planters—make your own instead!

 

Are you looking to create your own holiday porch pots this year, but don’t know where to start? We’ve got you covered. Discover everything you need to know about creating Rachel Ray-worthy fresh greenery porch pots for the holidays. This is officially a must on your November and December gardening to-do lists!  

 

Step 1: The Pot

Selecting the right planter for your holiday theme is the first step in creating stellar-looking arrangements. Once you’ve chosen a pot, fill it with garden soil or sand. Pro tip: Water the soil in your pot thoroughly once everything is placed for your design; this will cause the soil to freeze and anchor in all your elements within.

 

Step 2: Building Your Branch Base 

Building the base begins with choosing foliage branches for your holiday planters. If you can, try to cut greenery from a few different trees in your backyard that offer a nice mix of texture and color. Use these varieties to create an eye-catching look: 

 

Trees to Use as Upright Branches: White Pine, Noble Fir, Red Cedar

These Trees are Great for Short Filler Pieces: Juniper, Winterberry Holly, Red twig Dogwood, and Incense Cedar. 

 

Step 3: Natural Accents 

Like any great porch planter, your holiday containers need natural accents too. Walk around your backyard and search for some organic materials like pinecones, ornamental grass seedheads, ilex berries, and more to fill up your holiday pots. The goal is to make your natural accents contrast with your base greenery.

 

Step 4: Accessories

Add in additional decorative items like big Christmas bulbs and ornaments, LED lights, jingle bells, tinsel garland, stars, snowflakes, and more! Your front porch planters can be as minimal or extra as you want them to be, but no holiday planter is truly ever complete without a little bit of greenery and sparkle! 

 

Extra Decorating Tips

• Choose a color scheme. Your planters will tie together a lot stronger when you plan them out accordingly with a color scheme in mind. Opt for traditional Christmas tones of green and red, or go bold with sparkle and glimmer with a gold and white theme.
  
• Keep your greenery in water until you’re ready to decorate. Keep your fresh-cut evergreen branches in a bucket of water until they’re ready to be potted up! This, along with an anti-desiccant spray, will help keep them fresh for weeks of front porch beauty.

 

• Add coordinating front lawn holiday decor. By adding some LED lights to other trees and shrubs on your front lawn to complement your front porch planters, you take your decor game from 0 to 100 real quick! This can be easily achieved by creating your own live wreath or swag out of some leftover greenery to hang on the front door. Or, by adding some artificial presents beside your planters to make them look like little Christmas trees!

 

Are you looking for additional inspiration for your holiday porch planters? Visit us at Primex Garden Center in Glenside for all your Christmas decor and evergreen needs.