Mailbox Flower Bed Designs
Instead of creating a flowerbed under your mailbox post consider using an old wooden barrel to make a unique piece like this.
Mailbox flower bed designs. Surrounding your mailbox with flowers instantly makes your front yard more welcoming and approachable. 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. A combination of annuals and perennials makes a lovely cottage style mailbox garden. If it s in direct persistent sunlight plant lavender to daylilies.
This bed has been planted with stachys byzantina knows as lamb s ears along with golden color daylily wishbone flower torenia petunias and calibrachoa. Paint them a brand new bold color and plant shallow rooted flowers in the mail holder. Lastly it s key for mailbox gardens to have great curb appeal. Combine easy growing varieties such as anise hyssop sedum phlox aster and shrub rose for the lush relaxed appearance that characterizes cottage garden style.
Find one of these cute vintage tin mailboxes and use it to display flowers next to your door or remove their purpose completely as a mailbox and attach them to a fence patio or anywhere else. We love planting bright colorful flowers around our mailbox that really wow and distract from the harsh metal of a standing mailbox. Tailor your mailbox garden to the unique conditions of your curb if your mailbox is completely shaded try a shade loving plant like ferns. Learn more about cottage style.
This mailbox landscaping is a mixture of perennials and annuals that bring a lovely cottage style vibe. A purple leather flower also called clematis climbs the mailbox post.