Planters and Planter Boxes

Custom Wood Planters and Planter Boxes

Made-to-order planters for porches, patios, balconies, entryways, and storefronts throughout the Houston area. Sizes are built to your space rather than to a shelf standard.

Planter Types

Porch Planters

Compact planters sized for a front porch or entry, where the planter is part of the first impression of the house.

Tall Planters

Vertical planters for framing doorways, softening hard corners, and adding height without taking much floor space.

Rectangular Planter Boxes

The workhorse shape. Good for herbs, small shrubs, and long runs along a wall, deck edge, or walkway.

Window Boxes

Sized to your window opening and built with drainage in mind.

Trellis Planters

A planter with an integrated trellis for climbing plants, vines, and vertical growing.

Privacy Planters

Taller planter-and-screen combinations used to break sightlines on patios, balconies, and shared property lines.

Commercial Planters

Multi-unit orders with consistent sizing for restaurants, apartment communities, offices, and retail. See the Commercial Planters page.

Sizing a Planter to the Space

Most planters are bought for a spot that already exists: the width of a porch step, the run of a balcony rail, the gap between a door and a window. Building to order means the planter is made to that measurement rather than to the nearest standard size, and that is usually the difference between a planter that looks placed and one that looks bought.

Send the length, the depth and the height you have room for. If you are not sure about proportions or depth, include what you intend to use the planter for so the request can be reviewed in context.

Depth and What You Plan to Grow

Depth matters more than most people expect. A shallow planter dries out quickly through a Houston summer and limits what will survive in it. Herbs and annuals are content in a shallow box. Shrubs, small trees and perennials need real soil volume, and a planter that cannot hold it will fight you every August.

If a requested size raises a practical issue for the intended use, that can be discussed during quoting rather than after the planter is built.

Material and Finish

Cedar is the starting material, the same as it is for our raised garden beds. It is widely used for outdoor products and has the warm wood appearance most customers expect. The final lumber grade, board thickness and fastening method are still being documented while the first production models are built and evaluated.

Finish options are still being evaluated, and no finish is assumed unless your quote states it. If you already know you want the wood left to weather naturally, or that you want it finished, say so in the request so the quote reflects it.

Whichever way that goes, it is worth reading how to care for outdoor wood in the Houston climate before the planter arrives, because placement and drainage do more for the life of a planter than anything applied to the surface.

Drainage and Placement

Tell us what the planter will stand on. A planter sitting flat on a wooden deck holds water against the boards, and a planter sitting in a low spot in the yard sits in a puddle after every storm. Both are solved at the placement stage rather than after the fact, and both are easier to allow for if we know about them while the planter is being built.

Height and weight matter here too. A large planter full of wet soil is considerably heavier than the same planter empty. If it is going on a balcony, a raised deck or any other elevated surface, confirming that the surface is suitable for the finished weight is the customer’s responsibility, and it is worth doing before the order rather than after delivery.

Delivery and Access

Delivery is quoted with your order rather than charged at a flat rate. What moves the price is the distance from our shop, the size and weight of the product, the quantity, whether any assembly is involved, and how accessible the drop-off point is. The delivery format is confirmed in the quote, because it can depend on the size of the planter, transport limits and the access at the address.

The communities we deliver to routinely are listed on the delivery areas page. A city appearing there does not guarantee that every address or every order can be served, which is why it is quoted rather than published.

Send Enough Information for an Accurate Review

A planter is quoted from the space it is going into, so the request is where the useful detail belongs. None of it has to be exact at the first message.

Start from a planter format

If one of the planter formats currently shown above is close to what you need, name it in the request. Otherwise describe the space and the intended use and we will work from that.

Give the length, width and height

All three, because a planter is almost always bought for a space that already exists: the width of a porch step, the run of a rail, the gap between a door and a window. Approximate is fine at this stage.

If you are unsure about proportions or depth, include what you intend to use the planter for so the request can be reviewed in context.

Say what it will stand on

Say where the planter will sit, such as paving, soil, a porch or another outdoor surface, because placement affects access, drainage considerations and delivery. A photograph of the spot, with something ordinary in it for scale, tells us more than a description does.

Include the delivery ZIP code

The quote form asks for a delivery ZIP code, because delivery is quoted with the order rather than charged at a flat rate. Distance, dimensions, quantity, whether any assembly is involved and how accessible the drop-off point is all move it, and the delivery format is confirmed in the quote rather than assumed. See delivery areas.

Then review the written quote

Requests are stored, acknowledged and reviewed by a person. The quote sets out the product, the dimensions, the quantity, the delivery details, the price and the expected timeline, and every detail is confirmed with you before production starts. Start on the request a quote form, and see how it works for the full sequence.

Common Planter Questions

Do you build window boxes?

Yes. Window boxes are one of the planter types above, sized to your window opening and built with drainage in mind. Send the width of the opening and the depth of the sill you are working with.

Can you match a planter I already have?

Send photographs and the measurements of the one you have, and we will tell you honestly whether it is something we can build well. That is the same way we answer any custom project request.

Can a planter sit against a wall or a fence?

It can, and it is worth saying so in the request. A planter that will never be seen from behind can be built differently from one that is visible on all sides, and wood that can dry between rains lasts longer than wood pressed flat against a wall.

Do you have standard sizes and prices?

Not yet. Prices, standard dimensions and finish options are being finalized, so every planter is quote based for now. The quote is built around the dimensions and the details you give us.

How long will it take?

Lead time is confirmed with your quote rather than published in advance. It depends on the size of the planter, the quantity and the work already in the shop. We would rather give you a date we can hold than a number that sounds good.

Ordering More Than One

Multi-unit orders with consistent sizing, for restaurants, apartment communities, offices and retail, are handled on the commercial planters page. If you are a homeowner ordering two or three matching planters, that is an ordinary quote request: say how many and that they need to match, and they will be built and finished together.