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How to Make Fun Vintage Letter Succulent Planter

DIY Home Decor· Garden and Outdoor Decor

INSIDE: Use a large vintage letter to make DIY vertical wall succulent planter. Easy flea market garden and home decor ideas.

How to turn a large marquee letter into a succulent planter for wall.

All kids love to be woken up early on a Sunday morning, loaded into the car and taken across town to an outdoor vintage flea market, don’t they?! Because mine don’t, LOL!


Once a month, while the weather is kind to us Arizonans, we take bribe the kids with donuts while mom and dad tour the empty lot turned pop-up flea market. Fun for all involved!

And it was on one such early mornings that I found this awesome oversized vintage letter. For $2. And it became this cool monogram wall planter…

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How to Make Fun Vintage Letter Succulent Planter

Vertical planters are a great way to dress up an otherwise dull, boring wall. Like this shower caddy turned wall planter.

Supplies:
– Large vintage sign letter (this is comparable to what I used)
– Chicken wire
– Floral foam blocks
– Faux succulents

Industrial salvage letter from flea market turned into succulent wall planter.

how to make wall planter from large vintage letter

Hang the letter onto the wall. Since this was going into brick, use drill with masonry drill bits.

Large salvage industrial letter from flea market for DIY succulent vertical wall planter.

Insert floral foam blocks into letter.

Insert floral foam blocks into salvage letter and cover with chicken wire before inserting faux succulents for DIY vertical planter.

Place chicken wire over the foam.

Insert many (lots and lots) assorted succulents. Start with the biggest ones, placed sporadically throughout letter. Place smaller succulents to fill in the gaps.

Insert faux succulents into vintage marquee sign letter for DIY vertical wall planter.

how to make vertical garden with marquee letter

How to turn a large marquee letter into a succulent planter for wall.

If you couldn’t guess, our last name starts with “H”!

It’s a fun way to greet guests, or in the very least ensure they are at the right house!

DIY vertical wall planter monogram sign made from vintage large marquee letter and filled with faux succulents.

Another upcycled DIY vertical wall planter from shower caddy!

How to make a shower caddy vertical planter.

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  5. This is so fun and creative!!! I love this idea. Do you spray them in order to water them or is there another way? I have a black thumb, as you can tell ????

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  10. What an amazing find! It was totally worth the donuts you had to buy the kids! I love how pretty it looks with the flowers. Great job!

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  11. Oh my gosh, I love, love, love this! I can’t believe you got that amazing letter for $2. Flea markets are the best! I just grabbed a bunch of succulents from the dollar spot at Target. Now I know what I can do with them. Thanks so much for sharing at Sweet Inspiration!

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  12. Just dropping in to say that you’re my feature pick for Funtastic Friday. Drop by Love My Little Cottage blog Friday at 9:00 pm to see it. I will also be posting a feature collage on my Twitter and Instagram. Have a great week!

    Kristie

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  13. This is absolutely amazing! I never thought about getting faux succulents before, but since I tend to kill all living plants, I’m thinking I should get a few fake ones for spring projects too.
    Thank you for sharing at The Really Crafty Link Party this week. Pinned!

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  16. That is ace! What a fabulous find too, it would have been rude not to buy it!
    It’s weird isn’t it how kids don’t enjoy this kind of market. Here in the UK we have a lot of car boot sales which are a mix of people selling their junk for next to nothing out of their car boots (that the trunk in American!) and market stall holders. We used to bribe our kids to come with us with promises of hot dogs and ice creams!

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  18. I wish our flea markets had those things!! Your wall planter looks so so cool, love it. My daughters doesn’t like thrift shopping either… unless I promise I would buy something for them too.

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