Festive first impressions count, so why not upgrade your winter porch planters this season with these smart, frost-hardy ideas. With temperatures plummeting and snow in the air, potted plants often won’t thrive, so it makes sense to swap them for a vibrant array of cut foliage, berry laden branches, seedheads and seedpods.
There’s plenty of creative scope with a colorful and tactile feast of natural materials to choose from. Evergreen shrubs and trees offer textured branches including fragrant pine, fir, spruce, icy toned eucalyptus and juniper while show stopping stems come in numerous striking shades from frosty white birch to vivid cornus in chartreuse, deep red and scarlet. Add in plenty of sculptural seed pods, pine cones and glossy fruit for a stylish flourish and you can create a welcoming stoop that’s the envy of the neighbourhood.
