Don’t miss these 19 blazing tree stump planter ideas. A rigid, dead tree stump can become one of the assets of your garden, a striking focal point that can impress your guests.
Often the 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.
In such a case, landscapers offer a variety of solutions. But you can solve it on your own by turning a stump into a tree stump planter.
Also Read: How to Make a Tree Stump Planter
Here in this post, you’ll find 19 blazing tree stump planter ideas that’ll entice you to have one in your garden
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.
Ferns, a variety of wildflowers, cornflower, marigolds, phlox, there are so many options. You can grow other plants around it. This tree stump planter will not go unnoticed and become one of the most beautiful focal points of your garden.
Whatever plant you choose to grow in your tree stump planter but remember, shallow root plants are most successful in it.
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