Winter Planters – Super Easy & Beautiful!

My mom and I put together our winter planters a few weeks ago and they are so easy to do! They look so pretty & festive (especially when there’s some snow) and they last the entire winter.

My parents live in the country and they have lots of evergreen & cedar trees on their property. My mom offered to cut some branches for us and bring them over along with some branches of red dogwood that grow across the road from them so that we could make our own planters. I love making things myself so of course I love the idea of doing your own planters too!

If you have access to evergreen or cedar trees, you can cut your own branches or if you have a store/nursery/greenhouse nearby that sells this type of greenery, you should be able to purchase branches from them. The birch branches were also from a tree that my parents cut down a few years ago but a lot of stores sell those as well.

Here is a list of the items that we used:

• Birch branches – 4 of them (2 of each planter)
• Evergreen branches – 6 of them (3 for each planter)
• Cedar branches – 4 of them (2 for each planter)
• Red dogwood branches – 6 of them (3 for each planter)
• Red bows – 2 of them (1 for each planter)

I already had the planters filled with soil (I keep them filled all the time) so we didn’t have to fill them at all.

Step 1 – We put in the 2 birch branches. One in the middle of the planter and one in front of that but closer to the inside corner (so they are staggered).

Step 2 – We added in the 3 evergreen branches. One in the middle at the back, one on the left side closer to the front and one along the right side in the middle.

Step 3 – We added in the 3 red dogwood branches. One in the back corner on each side and one in the middle at the front.

Step 4 – We added in the 2 cedar branches. Both at the front to fill it in and make it look fuller.

Step 5 – Add the bow! We tied it around one of the cedar branches.

Recommendation: have different lengths of branches. The branches are all varying heights so it adds some more interest and depth to the arrangement but generally I would use 1 long branch, 1 medium branch and 1 shorter branch for each of the evergreen & red dogwood. We used cedar branches that were basically the same lengths.

So simple and easy to do – and these winter planters looks so pretty for months!