Spilled Flower Pots: Easy DIY for Your Garden

Spilled flower pots – why didn’t we think of this sooner? What a great canvas a green lawn makes for this striking design idea. And it’s a clever idea for broken flower pots, too. An easy, easy DIY. Pansies, petunias and impatience seem to be popular choices but any ground cover will work just fine. Even succulents and ferns, as you’ll see below. We’ve spilled 26 secret examples to get you inspired.

This spilled flower pot is a half wine-barrel, but does the same trick. The colors are a great mix. Source

Spilled Marigolds in Gold

Isn’t this a creative idea? They’ve squeezed a tube gold paint and marigolds came out. Source

This flower spill will fill in and become a sea of gold. Source

Spilled Reds

Red is a great color for the flowers in your spilled flower garden. Source

A ceramic rabbit looks over the spilled flower pot. Source

With red spilled flowers, the more the better.

This spilled flower display is from the Dubai Miracle Garden – the largest flower garden in the world. Source

Purple Spills

Petunias in deep purple contrast the lime green in this flower spill. Source

Impatience spills from a large flower pot. Source

A tumble of tiny purple flowers spills from this tipped flower pot. Source

A haze of purple flowers, dried, livens up the autumnal landscape.

A simple spilled pot – the only thing in the garden. How easy is this DIY? Source

The Blues

This half barrel spills a path of pansies. Source

Flower spills can be integrated with the natural surroundings to look even more casual and haphazard. Source

This gorgeous spill, coming out of a full size tipped barrel, looks like a river. Source

Spilled Milk?

No use crying over spilled milk, err, spilled flowers. Note the milk can – cute. Source

White Combos

Any broken flower pot you’ve got will work for a spill, as long as you have at least half of it intact. Source

Pink and white impatience will fill this whole yard. Source

Spilled Succulents & Creeping Jenny

From the Succulent Cafe, Oceanside (CA). Source

This spilled flower pot has Creeping Jenny and solar lights. Source

Succulents make a fantastic choice for a flower spill, although technically, it’s a cacti spill. Still, you can use anything that works. Source

Creeping Jenny is always a good choice for a spill. Source

Spilled Flower Pots: Show Pieces

This wheelbarrow flower spill has lots and lots of color. Source

On US Route 11 into downtown Stauton, VA. Source

Dubai Miracle Gardens water faucet flowere spill. Source

What a creative idea on the spilled flower pots theme. When these bedding plants grow in, this is going to look terrific, isn’t it?

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