19 Gorgeous Potting Benches to Inspire Your Garden Plans
Planning to grow your own plants this year? Check out these ideas for creating a dedicated potting area
Amanda Pollard
12 April 2020
Senior Editor at Houzz UK and Ireland. Journalist and editor specialising in interiors and architecture.
Senior Editor at Houzz UK and Ireland. Journalist and editor specialising in interiors... More
If you’d like to grow plants from seeds and cuttings, a potting bench could be a useful addition to your garden. Need some inspiration? Take a look at these appealing garden corners and imagine yourself nurturing tiny seedlings into blooming plants for your outdoor space.
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Do you have a potting bench or a dedicated area for nurturing plants? Share your photos and let us know which of these is your favourite in the Comments.
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Cobbled this together during lockdown. More functional than for display.
My potting bench is an old kitchen bench that was left by the previous owners of the house when I bought it. Like the lady above practical rather than staged. I'm also just about to use bricks and the old shed door for shelving. However the ones featured are lovely and hopefully will inspire us to get "potting" at this time.
I think many of these are dreamy & like the ones more closed in because garden is all enclosed & makes a wind tunnel, has smashed/broken things not fixed down. The calming colours help too.