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Tips for Making a Birdcage Planter

Tips for Making a Birdcage Planter
Birdcage planters are a favorite with creative gardeners. These tips share ideas for setting up a new or upcycled birdcage as a planter for succulents or annuals.
Birdcage planters are a favorite with creative gardeners. These tips share ideas for setting up a new or upcycled birdcage as a planter for succulents or annuals.

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Birdcage Planter Ideas


First, let’s look at some birdcage planter ideas. Then, I’ll give you my best tips for successful planting.


Birdcage planters are a favorite with creative gardeners. These tips share ideas for setting up a new or upcycled birdcage as a planter for succulents or annuals.
Birdcage planters are a favorite with creative gardeners. These tips share ideas for setting up a new or upcycled birdcage as a planter for succulents or annuals.

1 Black birdcage with succulents | Empress of Dirt


This one was created by Susan StLouis who shared it on a tour of her garden. See the entire creative garden container gallery here.


2 White birdcage with succulents | Garden Therapy


Stephanie of Garden Therapy shares how she planted this new, decorative birdcage with succulents.


3 Green birdcage with bird on top | Our Fairfield Home & Garden


Barb added a bird’s nest plus moss and ivy for a low-maintenance option.


4 Modern birdcage with flowering annuals | House of Hawthornes


You can often find these newer birdcages at thrift shops and yard sales. Pam planted hers with flowering annuals.


Tips for Making a Birdcage Planter


Birdcage planters are a favorite with creative gardeners. These tips share ideas for setting up a new or upcycled birdcage as a planter for succulents or annuals.
Birdcage planters are a favorite with creative gardeners. These tips share ideas for setting up a new or upcycled birdcage as a planter for succulents or annuals.

1 Birdcage


Where can I find a birdcage?


If you want to repurpose / upcycle an old one, look at:


  • thrift shops
  • yard sales
  • online ads e.g. Craigslist, Kiji – or place a wanted ad of your own
  • local Facebook buy, sell, trade groups

Where can I buy a new, decorative birdcage?


I see a lot of options on sites like Amazon and Etsy.


You can see various style and sizes here on Amazon.


Buying Tips


  • Be sure to check the size of the cage. Many of them look big in the photo but are actually quite small.
  • Confirm that the birdcage is well made and can endure life outdoors.
  • Make sure there is a way to get the plants in. Some decorative birdcages don’t actually have an opening or door, making it difficult to add plants unless you have hands the size of a mouse.

Make it Your Own



2 Liner or Soil Container


There are several options depending on the look you want. No matter what you choose, you want to form some sort of planting area that holds soil about 3-5 inches deep.


  • Use a coir liner and put container potting soil inside.
  • Use a piece of good quality burlap and form a planting area. Once the soil is added, the burlap stays in place.
  • Use chicken wire and moss.
  • Use a container that fits the base of the birdcage.
  • Use various flower pots that fit within the cage.

3 Soil | Container Potting Mix


For container plants, always use soilless container mix intended for the specific plants.



Want to combine them? Keep the plants in plastic pots with their preferred container mix and sit the pots in the cage. Conceal them with coir liner or burlap or show them off.


4 Plant Suggestions


Birdcage planters look fabulous with trailing plants spilling out of the cage.


Choose your plants based on the light conditions where you will hang it (sun, part sun, shade).


If you can’t find the plants you want in pots, you can always buy a ready-made hanging basket and transplant everything to the birdcage.


Look for trailing succulents


or flowering annuals including:


  • Alternantheras | Alternanthera spp.
  • Bacopas | Sutera spp.
  • Creeping Jenny | Lysimachia nummularia
  • Fuchsia | Fuchsia
  • Geranium | Geranium
  • Ivy
  • Lobelia | Campanulaceae
  • Nasturtium | Tropaeoleum spp.
  • Petunia | Petunia
  • Sweet potato vine | Ipomoea batatas

5 Care


Tips for happy garden container plants
Tips for happy garden container plants

Like any plant containers or hanging baskets, you need to keep on top of watering so they never dry out. You can find helpful tips for keeping container plants happy here. Also, keep your plant tags for specific instructions on feeding (fertilizing) and deadheading (removing old blooms to encourage new ones).


Recommended Resource


Container Gardening Complete by Jessica Walliser
Container Gardening Complete by Jessica Walliser
Container Gardening Complete

If you want a good, thorough reference book to answer all of your container growing questions, this is it.


Plant a birdcage! Free a bird!


~Melissa the Empress of Dirt ♛



Birdcage planters are a favorite with creative gardeners. These tips share ideas for setting up a new or upcycled birdcage as a planter for succulents or annuals.
Birdcage planters are a favorite with creative gardeners. These tips share ideas for setting up a new or upcycled birdcage as a planter for succulents or annuals.

Original article and pictures take empressofdirt.net site

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