Planters and planted perimeters

A Planter is a complete freestanding structure, including sides and a base; which is filled with a suitable container planter medium, and planted. If a Planter is very large, then it might come in sections to be assembled on-site; but in most cases, a Planter arrives fully-assembled and ‘ready to plant’.

A Planted Perimeter is a wall of metal creating a complete boundary around a space, which is then backfilled with soil and planted. A Planted Perimeter has no base [i.e. it is open to the ground below], and in almost all cases, the wall needs to be fastened down to a concrete foundation for stability. 

Of the two concepts, the Planter is the most widely understood, and is by far the most commonly specified requirement for sheet metal fabrication within the UK landscape industry. Given this, the image gallery here features mostly Planted Perimeters, to highlight some of the creative scope afforded by that concept.