Diy Mailbox Flower Bed
This idea is very simple since you just need to create a small bed for the flowers.
Diy mailbox flower bed. Before you start planting consider a few things. This bed uses silvery gray lamb s ears which produce spikes of lavender blooms along with gold daylilies pink torenia and low growing purple petunias and calibrachoa. Building a raised bed around your mailbox that is 10 14 tall filled with good quality soil think compost manure shredded leaves topped with weed suppressing mulch may be necessary. In areas where roads are salted in winter it is also important to choose salt tolerant plants for this garden that will thrive year after year.
Annuals perennials tropicals and shrubbery are all candidates for mailbox plantings. A deep purple clematis climbs the mailbox post. This bed has been planted with stachys byzantina knows as lamb s ears along with golden color daylily wishbone flower torenia petunias and calibrachoa. Just like this landscaping idea these colorful flowers just make the simple mailbox becomes a new statement in the front yard.
This mailbox landscaping is a mixture of perennials and annuals that bring a lovely cottage style vibe. Below are instructions for common mailbox plantings.