Simple terracotta or clay garden pots are traditionally seen only as planters but you can do so much more than that! We’ve gathered the coolest ideas to use your old pots to transform your garden and make it adorable. Let’s take a look at the coolest ones!
Garden Bed Wreaths
Want a creative wreath? Make one of clay pots! Compose a wreath of them using a wreath form, some moss and plant flowers, greenery or succulents, real or faux ones, the latter ones being more comfortable as you won’t need any soil. Such a wreath will do for decorating a rustic, boho or cottage space, it will bring a natural touch.
A terracotta pot wreath with fern is a unique solution and a cool way to add a woodland feel to the space.
A jaw-dropping pot wreath with greenery is a cool idea for a rustic or woodland space, you can make one yourself.
A terracotta pot wreath with colorful succulents is a creative and bold decoration for accenting any door.
A clay pot wreath with greenery and moss is a unique way to style your front door or your garden shed, for example.
A unique wreath with moss and purple pansies is a cool decoration for a rustic outdoor space.
A whitewashed clay pot wreath with fake succulents and moss is a cool decoration for rustic and shabby chic spaces.
Decor Along The Fence
A plain and simple fence or wall can be made bolder with a row of terracotta planters with blooms or greenery. It’s an alternative to a usual flower bed and These pots can be moved and changed, for example, if it’s too cold, you can bring them inside.
Accent your fence with bright pansies in terracotta pots, a blank fence will look bolder and cooler.
A concrete fence lined up with potted plants and with clay pots on the wall will make your backayrd cooler and fresher.
A garden bed along the fence, with rocks, clay pots with succulents, mushrooms and some planters on the wall.
Mini Gardens
Create a mini garden using terracotta pots and planting anything you like there: succulents, flowers, greenery and herbs or veggies, great for a small kitchen garden. You can just put your planters somewhere, create a tiered stand with stumps, put them on stands and cover with rocks. Depending on your design, add details around the garden.
A small pot garden with succulents, greenery and cacti placed on the rocks is a mobile alternative to a usual rock garden.
A lush mini garden with terracotta pots with greenery, herbs and bright purple blooms will add interest to your outdoor space.
This Mediterranean garden is done with large clay pots on metal legs and greenery will instantly add a nonchalant touch to the space.
A mini garden arranged on stumps and tree slices, with planters and succulents of various kinds.
Arrange your mini garden of terracotta pots with purple hydrangeas, liriope, greenery and succulents, it won't require much space and will look wow.
Style your entrance with clay pots with blooms instead of garden beds, you can arrange and rearrange them as much as you want.
Accent your staircase with herbs and greenery in terracotta pots and make it cooler and catchier.
An arrangement of vintage pots with bright tulips is a beautiful and elegant solution for any garden.
A vintage metal table with clay pots and bright blooms is a small garden idea that you can realize quickly yourself.
A beautiful garden with greenery, blooms and a gravel path plus a terracotta pot arrangement that makes the landscape more interesting.
A mini garden of terracotta pots with bright blooms and greenery is a gorgeous idea for an outdoor space, even if you have a small nook.
A clay pot arrangement with greenery and liriope plus a tree won't take much space but will have a big impact on the garden.
Large and beautiful planters with purple blooms and a tree is a bold and elegant color touch to the space.
Accent your garden steps with terracotta pots and bright blooms, you can move them anywhere you want and anytime.
Such a small yet elegant arrangement of terracotta pots with greenery and herbs will make your outdoor space more beautiful.
Stairs accented with terracotta pots, with greenery and bright blooms, are amazing to style your staircase.
Vertical Gardens
No floor space? Get a vertical garden with terracotta pots! Lean a ladder to the wall and place your planters, suspend the pots to the wall or to the roof over the porch. Mesh framed screens and metal holders with terracotta planters will become one more idea of designing a vertical garden. Such an idea will give your space a fresh touch without spending ground space and to enliven any blank wall.
A mini hanging garden of clay pots with greenery and bold blooms is a lovely solution if you don't want to waste floor space.
A vertical garden of stained wood and terracotta pots with herbs and greenery is a cool solution if you don't have floor space.
A vertical garden with a green house frame, with potted bright pansies is a cool solution for styling an outdoor space.
A unique vertical garden with a frame, chicken wire and terracotta pots with greenery can double as a space divider.
Accent your fence with a vertical garden with terracotta pots, get some fresh herbs every time you need and enjoy your outdoor space.
A ladder with potted bright blooms is a simple and lovely vertical garden that you can make fast.
A round vertical garden with clay pots with greenery and white blooms is a catchy way to style your plain fence.
Garden Bed Pots
Style your garden bed with pots instead of going traditional. Why? Because it’s changeable: it’s like a ledge gallery wall – you can change it anytime and swap the planters or the plants, and that makes it more versatile.
A garden bed done with planters, with greenery and blooms is a cool solution if you aren't sure about what and where to plant or if you wanna change something.
A space around the tree styled with various terracotta pots, with succulents is a stylish and cool way to accent this space.
Garden Waterfalls
Make a fab waterfall using an old clay pot! Create a pond or a river bed, cover it with rocks and pebbles, add a planter that will be your waterfall vessel, and then get more greenery and blooms around. A planter will be a unique addition to a natural-looking pond. A modern fountain of a couple of large pots is also a cool idea, and it’s a DIY project you can make.
Turn a duo of planters into a modern fountain for your garden, such a piece is totally DIYable and you can find a tutorial to make it.
A beautiful natural pond accented with large rocks and greenery, a pot with a waterfall are amazing for outdoor decor.
A unique waterfall hidden in the fern, with a terracotta vase, bowls and pebbles plus blooms around is amazing.
A beautiful and natural pond with greenery and rocks plus a blue vase for a waterfall is amazing.
A vase waterfall with a pebble river bed, rocks, greenery and blooms for a peaceful and chic garden.
Garden Decor
Create a fantastic garden decoration using clay pots, a pot ball that can be partly planted or completely planted, this is a cool alternative to a usual garden. Make wind chimes of small clay pots and a frame – this is a cool and harmonizing decor piece. Style your steps with some planters with blooms, they can become your little garden on the stairs. Get more of the coolest solutions below!
A creative arrangement of terracotta pots with succulents is a fresh way to style a mini garden outdoors.
A succulent garden with groundcovers and pebbles and large clay pots used for decorating and adding interest to the landscape.
Steps with potted greenery and blooms look nice and lovely and they can be moved to any place when you want.
A large clay pot with handles as a centerpiece surrounded with liriope and some liriope and greenery planted is a cool decoration.
This unique pot ball with some succulents and branches is a unique alternative to a usual succulent garden, you can make one yourself.
A row of terracotta pots with boxwood topiaries can line up a path, a porch or an entrance, and you can also place some on the steps for more elegance.
A staircase accented with terracotta pots with yellow and purple pansies looks nice, cool and bold.
Steps with clay planters, with astilbe, some blooms and veggies look very chic and harvest-like.
Tall whitewashed vases with ferns will make your garden more special and beautiful.
A garden wind chime made of small and colorful clay pots is an easy DIY project to realize in no time.