Get a little creative over the weekend for your indoor floral display. Here are the Best DIY Pots For African Violets that you can try making!
African violets sure make for beautiful displays by themselves. Among so many different varieties, differing in sizes, flower colors, and even flower shapes, you can literally have a standalone collection of African violets in flower pots and it would look gorgeous.
However, you can take the beauty up a notch with some great DIY pots for African violets, which are listed below!
Best DIY Pots For African Violets
When making DIY pots, you need to be especially careful when picking materials that allow proper air circulation and drainage. Here are lovely choices that would suit all requirements.
1. Keep them in Cute Ceramic Bowls
The image of your African violets in a cute little ceramic bowl can be pretty tempting. You can use any container to do this; just use it as a cache pot—keep an African violet planter inside it.
2. Self-Watering African Violet Pot DIY
Self-watering plant pots are really popular and are perfect if you tend to forget to water your African violets, and also, we should not forget the fact that it prefers bottom watering. This DIY will help you make one.
3. DIY Tea Pot for African Violet
No, you cannot ditch your Saturday night plans to have a tea party with your plant. But you can definitely plant it in a vintage teapot like this one.
4. DIY Terrarium Idea
Glass terrariums might seem intimidating, but that’s only because you may have never made one! All you need is an old glass jar and African violet varieties.
5. Repurposed Tin Can DIY
Don’t throw away those old tin cans from your garage yet! Repurpose them into adorable pots for your African violets.
7. Terracotta Pot and Saucers for African Violets
You can never go wrong with the classics and terra cotta pots and saucers. You can also recycle and flair up terracotta pots in various ways with paint, stickers, or markers.
8. DIY Wooden Crate Pot Idea
This is one of the most stylish ways to house your African violets, and all you have to do is find an unused and old wooden crate or tray.
9. DIY Centerpiece with African Violet Pot
If you don’t want to do much work and want a lovely tabletop centerpiece, get a vintage planter like this turtle for your African violets.
10. Mini African Violet Pot DIY
A desk full of such tiny glasses filled with mini African violets would look stunning. It’s an easy DIY–just take a few glasses, add a bit of potting mix, and get planting.
11. DIY Vintage Pot
Grab a terracotta pot, give it a single coat of paint with a damaged brush (for the withering brushstrokes), and add a label using a jute string. Simple, right?
12. Mini Tray of African Violet Pots
How do you adorn a coffee table with African violet in small flower pots? You take a tray, fill it with gravel, and display a few terracotta pots on it.
13. Make Your Own Clay Pot
Book yourself a potter workshop over the weekend. After you make for yourself a beautiful clay pot, plant your African violet in it. It’s the perfect DIY with the how-to shared here!
14. Twist on the Self-watering Pot
If you are not too keen on the usual glass self-watering pot, choose a bigger, decorative planter to put onto a small glass water reservoir. Thus, you will have the loveliest self-watering pot for your African violets; this is how it was done here!
