How to Make an Outdoor planter using Chicken Wire & Landscape Fabric

Custom outdoor planter made with chicken wire and landscape fabric over a shepherds hook hummingbird feeder carousal. When I moved and then spray painted my grandma’s shepherds hook plant hanger it just screamed for me to add a plant to the middle of it. But no pots would work in this instance so I set out to make my own!

At first I had my heart set on a fuschia like this one:

I don’t own this image and I don’t know who does!

So, up in my neck of the woods the fuschia in red and white or red and yellow is pretty darned rare. Instead I can buy any number of the purple and pink fuschia that I could possibly want. But I thought the pink might clash with the red hummingbird feeder so I kept looking.

(Really though is there anything better then walking around a green house!? I may have taken WAY longer then I needed to to find the perfect plant lol I’m in Heaven.)

I wanted a plant that would really drape and hang over the entire feeder and entirely cover up its base.

This is what I ended up with and its called a scaevola. I love how its kinda of viney and drapes over the whole feeder!

Ok so I cut a square piece of chicken wire and draped it over the top of the feeder. Then I pushed it down into the center and kinda wrapped it around the back of the shepherds hooks to secure it.

(Wear gloves and watch yourself with chicken wire, it will scratch you!)

Then I pushed a square piece of landscape fabric into the chicken wire and transferred the plant into a garbage bag.

Why did I decide to the transfer the plant first into a garbage bag? I feared the landscape fabric wouldn’t hold any kind of water and I was told this type of plant needs a lot of water!

After plopping the plant down into the planter I waited before poking holes in the garbage bag and its a good thing I did. The warning that scaevola’s require a lot of water was NO JOKE. This plant requires TONS OF WATER and I’m really glad that I didn’t add drainage holes.

(You may want to though depending on the plant you choose.)

In this case my plant wholly covered the majority of the chicken wire beneath it. I had initially planned on using landscape moss to cover the bottom of the planter but it didn’t seem necessary.

I am totally excited with how this turned out and was really thrilled when I was working on it because I had multiple hummingbirds come and tell me that I was totally interrupting their dinner!

Make sure and check out the rest of the planter projects from the Farmhouse Hens this week, be prepared for some really creative ideas!