2 Free and Easy Winter Planter Ideas For A Cozy Front Porch

Is your porch looking a little blah after the holidays? I’m always a little sad to see the Christmas sparkle disappear. However, your porch doesn’t have to suffer from the winter blahs. I can’t wait to share my 2 budget-friendly winter outdoor planter ideas. I love using free foraged natural elements, and filling winter outdoor planters with gathered supplies is an easy and inexpensive way to create a cozy front porch.

I like to keep the winter outdoor planters filled with a snowy winter feel. Therefore, holding back some of the snowmen or snowflakes from Christmas helps brighten the porch and make it cozy. In addition, adding a little faux snow to the natural elements also creates a cozy winter wonderland feel for the front porch planters.

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Free Foraged Supplies for Winter Porch Planters

You will want to use foraged supplies to fill your porch planters if possible. If you don’t have these supplies freely available, you may have a friend or family member who will let you hunt and gather your supplies.

I foraged all my supplies except the spackle, but I found some great deals if you need to purchase.

• Twigs or sticks
• Pinecones – There is a variety of sizes available.
• Grapevine or Grapevine Wreath – I found these two at a great price.
• Fresh Cut Greenery – Boxwood, Rosemary, and Pine are best. Options – Magnolia, Nandina, Cedar.
• Planters – If you like a DIY project, try this one. If not, see this ready-to-purchase option.
• Light Weight Spackle – Optional

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Front Porch Planters for Winter Ideas

Planning your winter outdoor planter ideas involves keeping a few of your Christmas decorations out of storage and gathering free materials to create a winter wonderland on your front porch.

# 1 – Winter Outdoor Planter Idea

Let’s begin with my first free outdoor winter planter idea. You will start by gathering your twigs, pinecones, and evergreen foliage supplies. If you want to add the faux snow to the pine cones and the twigs, do this ahead of time to allow for drying.

See How To Add Fake Snow To Christmas Decor in 2 Easy No Mess Steps for the easy tutorial.

Once all your supplies are ready, add a grapevine wreath or pieces of grapevine around the top of your planter.

For this front porch planter idea, fill 2 to 3 tin cans full of your boxwood greenery. If you are using magnolia or other large-leaf greenery, you may need a larger container to hold the stems steady.

Next, place them in the planters toward the back side, with the taller pieces of greenery at the back.

Then, add twigs randomly to the greenery to fill in the space. Arrange until the area is full.

Finally, place pine cones at the front of the planter in front of the greenery and along the edge of the grapevine. If necessary, add filler or extra pinecones underneath to keep the pinecones above the grapevine level.

My winter porch planters arrangement is inspired by the snowy grapevine wreath I used at Christmas. I combined the snowy wreaths with a twig wreath by using twist ties to connect them. This adds more volume to balance out the planters.

# 2 Outdoor Winter Planter Ideas

If you saw my Cozy Country Christmas Porch: Winter Wonderland, you know snowy was the theme. Therefore, I kept several of the decor pieces and just made a few adjustments to transform the porch from a Christmas Wonderland to a Winter Wonderland.

First, let’s take a look at what I left in place from the Christmas porch. I left the Dollar Tree Snowflakes on the shutters, a snowy tree with pinecones, and the standing and seated deer.

All the red bows and garlands were removed from around the front doors.

The winter outdoor planters are now filled with free, fresh-cut magnolia leaves, snowy pinecones, and a snow-covered wreath from my holiday decor. Cute paper mache snowmen are nestled into the planters for winter.

The foraged pinecones all have a touch of snow. I used the same fake snow technique you saw on the first winter outdoor planter ideas.

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Easy Planter Ideas

These easy front porch planter ideas only took a few minutes to arrange, and all the supplies were easily found. These fresh evergreens and reusing old decor are inexpensive ways to update your porch for winter.

I love how the snowy wreath and twigs work with the DIY Shutters we added this past fall.

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Final Touches

The front porch planter ideas needed a few final touches, so I added this vintage sled, additional snowy pinecones, and a cute snowman to the first winter porch!

The second winter front porch gets a cozy vibe with more free pinecones, foraged grapevine wreaths, cozy rugs, and a comfy rocking chair with a pinecone pillow.

I hope you like these winter outdoor planter ideas and cozy front porch inspirations. You can see more details about the reindeer rug and the larger rug here. The DIY address sign tutorial can be seen here.

Resources – Winter Outdoor Planters For The Front Porch

There are several options for winter outdoor planters, and I’ll share a few that I’ve used on our porch.

Last fall, we made these faux galvanized planters for our front porch, and I love their height.

Any size planter will work for this arrangement.

Wicker Tall Planters / Blue Planters / Stone Urn Planter

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I look forward to sharing my next adventure with you!

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