Sixteen beautiful flower planter ideas for your sunniest areas that are simple, colorful, and use easy-to-find flowers – plus where to find more inspiration to create your own colorful planters.

Every year in early spring I find myself wandering up and down nursery or home store plant aisles looking for the best flowers for our containers. Maybe a little desperately, since I long for the colorful beauty of flowers at that time of the year. Can you relate?

Many times I just start throwing things in my cart based on the tag description, since the flower starts aren’t usually blooming yet. The problem with this is twofold:

• I often don’t buy enough OR buy too much for the planters I have.
• The colors may not work well together – the pictures on the little tags are not very reliable for color.



What we need are some tried-and-true flower container ideas that can be used reliably with the typical flowers found at nurseries and home stores. These basic combinations can serve as a backbone for our container gardens, leaving us free to add new or unusual varieties within the basic scheme.



Sounds good, right? I think so! With this in mind, I’ve collected sixteen flower planter ideas, most which use the “thriller, filler, spiller” technique (a center tall plant, some bushy medium plants, and the trailing plants), plus Pinterest boards you can follow to provide you with ongoing ideas.