Design ideas

Commercial planter design ideas. Real sites first, concepts marked as concepts.

Real installations of our planters first, then AI concept images, each marked as a concept. Every idea links to the planter behind it and to a project quote.

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Black laser-cut screens with an interlocking circle pattern rising behind long black planters of cannas and coleus, under a timber pergola with cushioned outdoor seating.

Installed

Entries & storefronts

Entries and storefronts

Pairs at a door, tiers along a frontage, or a run that leads visitors in.

Installed on real sites

Corner of a two-tier black planter on a sidewalk, with boxwood shrubs in nursery pots being placed for planting.

Installed · Nashville

Tiered corner planter during planting, restaurant frontage, Nashville

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AI concepts

Concept images show how a form could look in this setting. They are not photos of real installations.

AI concept image of black rectangular planters in three heights, planted with lavender, beside an entry walkway

AI concept image, not a real installation

Rectangular planters in three heights along an entry walk

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AI concept image of black cube planters holding cone-shaped evergreens outside a restaurant entrance at dusk

AI concept image, not a real installation

Cube planters with clipped evergreens at a restaurant door

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AI concept image of two tall black column planters with spiral topiary on either side of a stone entrance

AI concept image, not a real installation

Tall column planters framing an entrance

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AI concept image of two black curved frustum planters with clipped boxwood balls beside the steps of a glass hotel entrance

AI concept image, not a real installation

Curved frustum planters flanking hotel steps

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AI concept image of a tall black cylinder planter with bamboo beside the glass doors of a condo building

AI concept image, not a real installation

A cylinder planter with bamboo at a condo entrance

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Patios & restaurants

Patios and restaurant terraces

Planters that edge a dining area, divide tables or anchor the middle of a patio.

Installed on real sites

Black square planters overflowing with pink petunias on a wooden deck, with ornamental grasses and black laser-cut screens in the background.

Installed · Nashville

Planters and screens on a restaurant patio deck, Nashville

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Garden deck with a black metal bistro set surrounded by black planters of lavender, salvia and petunias, potted citrus trees and mature evergreens.

Installed · Nashville

Black planters around a restaurant patio deck, Nashville

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Five black rectangular planters of ornamental grasses lined up along a white wall on a sunny terrace with wicker seating.

Installed · Michigan

Retirement community patio, Michigan

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Three low black square planters with pink hydrangeas on a sunny tiled patio beside a window, with pergola shadows on the floor.

Installed · Michigan

Retirement community patio, Michigan

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AI concepts

Concept images show how a form could look in this setting. They are not photos of real installations.

AI concept image of long, low black planting borders with lavender and shrubs between tables on a restaurant patio

AI concept image, not a real installation

Low planting borders around outdoor tables

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AI concept image of a black trapezoid planter set with grasses and flowers between dining tables on a terrace

AI concept image, not a real installation

A trapezoid planter set as a table divider

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AI concept image of a row of tall black obround planters with ferns separating restaurant tables in the evening

AI concept image, not a real installation

Tall obround planters screening a dining row

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AI concept image of a low black round bottomless planter filled with flowers in the centre of a busy restaurant patio

AI concept image, not a real installation

A planted ring in the middle of a patio

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AI concept image of three black wall planters with basil and herbs mounted on a white brick pier of a restaurant patio

AI concept image, not a real installation

Wall planters with herbs on a brick pier

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Rooftops & terraces

Rooftops, terraces and amenity decks

Aluminum keeps weight down on decks and podiums. Your engineer still checks the loads.

Installed on real sites

Grey rectangular planters lined up behind the glass railing of a condo building's terrace, matching the grey wall panels.

Installed · Mission, BC

Grey terrace planters at a multifamily residence, Mission, BC

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Four-storey condo building at dusk with grey planters lining a glass-railed terrace above the parking entrance.

Installed · Mission, BC

Terrace planters at a multifamily residence, Mission, BC

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Row of long charcoal rectangular planters along the edge of a raised concrete patio above a block retaining wall, with a tall black tapered planter beside the house.

Installed

Long rectangular planters edging a raised residential patio

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AI concepts

Concept images show how a form could look in this setting. They are not photos of real installations.

AI concept image of white obround planters with ornamental grasses beside a sofa on a city rooftop terrace

AI concept image, not a real installation

White obround planters beside rooftop seating

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AI concept image of a black curved frustum planter with an agave beside white lounge seating on a rooftop at dusk

AI concept image, not a real installation

A curved frustum planter on a rooftop lounge

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AI concept image of black raised garden beds growing tomatoes and greens on a rooftop deck

AI concept image, not a real installation

Raised beds for a rooftop kitchen garden

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AI concept image of tall black rectangular planters with clipped hedging behind outdoor seating on a residential rooftop

AI concept image, not a real installation

Tall rectangular planters with hedging behind a terrace sofa

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Streetscapes & public spaces

Streetscapes, plazas and public spaces

Tree rings, long runs and planted islands for plazas, campuses and parks. We have no installed photos of this setting to show yet, so these are concepts only.