Buyers Guide To Wholesale Outdoor Planters

Buying wholesale planters can be a difficult process when there are so many shapes, sizes, and styles available. To help you make the right decision, we created this buyer's guide to wholesale outdoor planters. 

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Who Can Benefit From Fiberglass Outdoor Planters?

Fiberglass outdoor planters are used in a number of different industries from retail stores, to hospitality, and for residential applications in the form of decor and landscape design.

Using fiberglass outdoor planters for exterior landscaping has many benefits for both business owners and the general public. Here are 3 reasons why:

3 Benefits Behind Every Outdoor Planter Box

Outdoor plant pots can serve a variety of purposes, including simpler plant management, design framing, privacy, and so on, which is difficult to achieve with other natural landscaping elements.

1. Outdoor planters offer better functional organization

By using Jay Scotts outdoor planters, plants will not only have enough room to flourish, but large commercial outdoor plant pots also support more plants in a clean and professional way. 

Big pots like our Antwerp Wide Rectangular Planter make it easier to organize your plants and limit untidy areas of your landscape. This solution, used by landscape architects, designers, and commercial companies, is extremely convenient, particularly in a business setting.

2. Outdoor planters can create privacy for your indoor or outdoor areas

Jay Scotts long rectangle outdoor planters, such as the Hudson Extra Long Rectangular Planter, are the perfect choice for privacy, as the four flat walls allow you to fit the pots together without any gaps.

Lining your porch, backyard, even your swimming pool with large rectangular planters and tall plants ensures peaceful privacy for residents.

Rectangular outdoor planters also bring a sense of privacy to your commercial space while remaining classy and comfortable! Shop owners, cafe and restaurateurs, even hospitals use long plant pots to divide public spaces to offer a degree of botanical privacy and social distancing.

3. Outdoor planters add value to business owners and their customers

Using natural resources to meet business goals is a trend that can be found in a variety of settings, including retail, hospitality, and public services.

Jay Scotts outdoor planters are used throughout America to add value to the experience, comfort, and pleasure of customers and employees in any industry you can imagine, especially in high-traffic areas.

Creating a display of plants produces an advantage for a company as research has shown that customers are much more likely to discover and invest in products and services that are complemented with greenery. In fact, a 2015 study found that customers expected to pay 25% more in green retail environments and 23% more for a hotel room that offers views of nature.

Jay Scott's modern outdoor planters are perfect for projects that you want to look and feel professional and will last for years to come!

Jay Scotts Wholesale Outdoor Planters

Our range of fiberglass outdoor planters offer sizes from small tabletops to extra-large rectangular planter boxes. Plus, our selection of modern outdoor planters will complement a wide range of industry and garden styles.

Our wholesale products are great for both outdoor and indoor use and will blend in well with contemporary architecture styles.

Large outdoor planters can be used to create beautiful displays that add value to the end-user, while small outdoor planters are perfect to add pop to an already connected landscaping project.

Jay Scotts wholesale fiberglass rectangular pots are made of high-quality fiberglass, which is durable, lightweight, UV-resistant, and frost-resistant.

Outdoor Planter Sizes

The most common sizes of outdoor planters at Jay Scotts are small, medium, large, and extra-large.

Small - Our small outdoor planters, such as the River Rock Planter start at just 4 inches in height and range up to 12 inches. While traditional shapes like our Montroy Cube Fiberglass Planter start at a convenient 12 inches and extend well into extra-large sizes.

Medium - Medium sizes range from 24 inches, 36 inches to 48 inches and make up our most popular designs, for example, the Milano Narrow Rectangular Planter.

Large & extra large - Though our custom range extends beyond traditional and standard sizes available in our store, our most popular large and extra-large rectangular planters are available in sizes of 54 inches, 65 inches, 84 inches, and even extend to a whopping 100 inches in our flagship Hudson Extra Long Rectangular Planter.

Best Jay Scotts Colors For Outdoor Planters

There is a wide variety of trendy and high-quality colors and finishes to choose from for all Jay Scotts planters.

Black and white rectangular planters are the most popular and suit most applications.

Cobalt blue, eggplant, and satin green planters go well with contemporary-style homes, apartments, and condos.

Beige and other earth tones, like charcoal, brown, bronze, or terracotta, are perfect in rustic settings.

How To Fill Outdoor Planters

There are so many ways to fill your planter without breaking the bank or straining your back. You'll need potting soil for planting in any container whether it's indoors or outdoors. To fill up your planter simply:

Step 1: Check for drainage holes 

Most plants need adequate drainage to thrive. We recommend adding drainage holes to your plant pots, especially for outdoor use. Please specify if you would like this when you order. It’s also possible to add drainage solutions yourself later.

Step 2: Prepare filler for the pot

Instead of using potting soil to fill your pot, use space savers in the bottom half. This will help use less soil and water and make the planter lighter. Materials such as gravel, packing peanuts, or plastic bottles are often used.

Lightweight pot fillers // Photo by Shawn Hempel on Shutterstock

Step 3: Protect the fillers in the pot

Separate the filler from the soil with a layer of landscaping fabric. This step will prevent the potting soil from falling through the cracks.

Step 4: Prepare soil for potting

After the filler, use potting soil to fill the planter to the top. Using potting soil for indoor plants is a must to allow water to drain thoroughly and create an environment for the roots of the plant to thrive.

Step 5: Planting and touching up

Make a small hole a few inches deep in the center of your planter and place your plants right in! If additional potting soil is required, add it around the plants and water as needed. For container plants, wait until the top 2 inches of the potting mix has dried out before watering.

Should Outdoor Planters Have Drainage?

Plants can die from root rot caused by bacteria and fungi that form in the bottom of a planter when there is too much water in it. 

Regardless of the care and watering requirements of each plant, there should be drainage holes in an outdoor planter to allow excess water to drain away. For indoor planters, we do not recommend drainage holes unless you use a planter tray. 

Build Your Business With Our Outdoor Planters

Jay Scotts is the leading brand for fiberglass plant containers in both wholesale and retail. Our reputation for high-quality, durable, and beautiful fiberglass planter products is rivalled only by our passion for customer service and relationship building with our clients.

As an established supplier of commercial plant containers, Jay Scotts offers competitive wholesale prices and distribution throughout the United States Of America and Canada. Our deep stock allows our partners to stay ahead of demand and grow their business while our customer support is always available to guide you through your next project from deciding specifications to shipping and installation.

For wholesale and retail opportunities, contact us today and let us help you grow your business.