Welcome to a new product review and giveaway, perfect for those of you who are looking to spruce up a patio or deck area. We’ve been trying out the Forest Toulouse trellis planter from online gardening supplier GardenSite, and I’ve also got one of these lovely planters worth £89.99 to give away to a lucky winner.
The Forest Toulouse trellis planter has a generous container with an integral trellis for climbing plants, allowing you to create a plant display with lots of height. It’s ideal for concealing a less-than-lovely wall or fence, and because it’s made from pressure-treated timber it will last for years.
The planter arrives in two pieces; the trellis and the base. It comes with four screws to attach the trellis; this isn’t a tricky job, but as the wood is really solid we drilled some holes first to make it easier.
Once assembled, I decided to line the planter with some plastic sheeting; I’d recommend doing this as there are gaps between the planks along the base. I made plenty of small holes in the sheeting to allow for good drainage.
The Forest Toulouse planter is really sturdy and the wood is lovely quality; the whole thing feels very well-made. I love the simple, chunky style too. At 135cm high it’s a great option for a spot where height is limited. It fits perfectly under our kitchen window which is close to our seating area, so we’ll be able to enjoy the plants while we relax.
From a practical point of view, the pressure-treated timber makes it really durable (in fact there’s a 15 year guarantee against rot), and the built-in feet raise it off the ground to aid drainage and prevent waterlogging on the container base. All in all, it’s a great addition to our garden. I also love the fact that 2.5% from the sale of this product will be donated to Thrive, a national charity which works to help people living with a disability or mental illness, to transform their lives through gardening.
As we’re nearing the end of summer, I’ve filled up the planter with a selection of plants that will give us plenty of colour and interest as we move towards autumn.
The climbing plant is Clematis ‘Étoile Violette’, which is a later summer flowering viticella variety with gorgeous rich purple blooms. For some contrasting foliage interest I’ve use Cineraria ‘Silver Dust’, I love the texture on this plant and it looks amazing at dusk too.
The kids chose the bedding plants, and went for pansies in a range of pink shades. These will quickly fill up the space and flower away for months.
I’m really pleased with the finished planter; it’s already made an unappealing wall far nicer to look at, and as the plants become established it’s only going to get better. I like the idea of mixing up the planting scheme with different bedding plants for each season, I suspect the kids will insist on choosing these every time from now on! I think the planter would also make a fantastic grow-your-own container, with things like runner beans or peas on the trellis, and herbs or other veggies in the container.
The Forest Toulouse trellis planter costs £89.99 from GardenSite, you can find out more and order here. What would you grow in it?
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I have a lovely Jasmine that needs to be ‘rehomed’ and it would love this trellis planter.
I would plant Clematis, Silver Dust and Pansies or Bizzy Lizzies in this lovely planter
I would love to plant pansies and petunias in this lovely planter
Winter flowering pansies and violas as well as some hardy salad leaves mixed in. In the summer months,I would plant sweet peas,swiss chard and a selection of miniveg withbright yellow marigolds to keep the bugs away!
This looks lovely…I’m just starting to work on my garden so I was pleased to find your post and get some inspiration! I’d love to grow some climbing plants and I’d also like to try my hand at herbs x
I’d plant some sweet peas along with some herbs.
some herbs
I have a honeysuckle and two Clematis that would love this!
Would grow some clematis and a climbing rose. I would then put some annuals in depending on the time of year
I would plant a Clematis ‘Jospehine’ the flower is gorgeous! Thank you for the chance to win x
I would plant it up with tulips for the spring.
a few clematis would make this really nice
I love tulips xx
I would plant some lovely sweet peas
I would grow herbs and some climbing beans
This looks great – my decking needs some attention pronto! Would love something lovely smelling like sweet peas climbing up it!
Sweetpeas, so beautiful and the aroma is wonderful
I’d plant clematis
petunias and sweet peas x
Sweet peas and lavender.
Honeysuckle and herbs
Clematis
Pretty new to gardening so I don’t know many names but if I like it I ask at our local garden centre where I’ve been getting plants and advice about what to plant and when,I love looking at other peoples gardens for ideas.
im not very good of names of plants, but i would go for colour!
I would plant some sweet peas.
Great project looks amazing.
Lavender, and put it outside my back door, and enjoy the beautiful smell.
id grow some green beans in it, i grew them this year and had to make my own!
My son has plans for planting a few things himself. I think it would be chillies of some variety.
Clematis
some runner beans and sweet peas x
Lavatera ‘Barnsley Baby’
I would plant a summer jasmine and a honeysuckle
I would have to ask my Mum as shes the expert, but I would love some brightly coloured, but low maintenance flowers
I have a lovely simple wild style scented rose that has a pretty open flower that is great for bees that would be perfect climbing up this. Then some herbs and allysum as it would be outside the kitchen door.
Roses outside my maisonette xx
I have a honeysuckle growing in a compost heap that needs a new home!
I’d grow some herbs and plant some sweet peas from colour and fragrance
I think I would try a grape vine
I think I would try a grape vine
Lavender and Hebe’s so they lasted all year – lovely x
Sweetpea and pansies
Ive just moved house and had to leave my lovely established Jasmine in the garden, so I would love to start again and grown Jasmine as well as plant it up with spring bulbs
a clematis my favourite climer
I think a honeysuckle would be great climbing up the trellis, with maybe some herbs in the planter.
A lovely Clematis Fireworks as wife adores this plant, likes and colour and the fact that it flowers twice a year, below I’d plant some colourful mini daffs in spring and in the summer bedding plants I’ve grown from seed
I’d love to try growing jasmine or honneysuckle. Can you imagine the gorgeous smell in the evening?
I love tulips. Different colour tulips will look fantastic
I’ve got a beautiful climbing rose that would look great going up that trellis.
I’d plant some peas & sweet peas to scramble over the trellis and then some purple & white swan river daisies at the front to help bring the pollinators in,they look so pretty & last a long time without needing much attention.
honeysuckle, for the scent
Sweet peas and petunias
Climbing roses and sweetpeas
Some lovley climbers, sweat peats and climbing roses
would love to give sweet peas and peppers a go x
jasmine and passion flower
I’d plant clematis my favourite plant with some herbs all around the bottom to keep the bugs away
I would get an evergreen clematis with small flowers and foliage all year round – Clematis ‘Wisley Cream’.
At this time of year like you i’d use pansies in creams and whites to tumble over the front with creeping thyme in white.. White heather at the back and variegated ivy to complete the look.
I would grow a Clematis up the trellis and Buzzy Lizzie underneath
I would grow some colourful flowers
Climbing French and Runner beans under planted with salad crops
Clematis and roses
Love the idea of this beautiful trellis,my Jasmine has grown lovely this year and would love this as it’s new home,absolutely gorgeous x x
I would plant sweet peas in this planter and place it near my back door.
I would plants a clematis and a few tulips. Thanks for this lovely giveaway, this would look lovely in my garden.
I think Chilean bellflower would look stunning. I’d love to grow it one day.
I’d grow a selection of berry fruits, favourites would be thornless blackberry, and gooseberry, and perhaps redcurrants and strawberries as well.
I am into scented and bee-friendly plants so would grow a trachelospernum climber at the back and a mixture of lavenders in the front.
Prbobaly clematis, although I do like passion flowers too.
This is the luxury that every plant deserves. I think I would try a growing wisteria as the main item with some compact flowering plants beneath.
Climbing roses for me.
Thymes and a honeysuckle maybe.
I recently bought a miniature Wisteria that I think would be perfect in this beautiful planter with some dainty spring bulbs around as well.
May yo some tomato plants
catnip plants for my cats
Sunflowers, the brightest of plants
I have a Jasmine and a honeysuckle which need a bit bigger trellis, so They would go in, and i would alternate bedding for the various seasons, starting with some tete a tete daffodils and crocuses for sproing, then something like pelargoniums and fuschias and some trailing Liberia for summer, with some pansies put in to take up the slack over autumn and winter.
I would try a lemon tree. We have an indoor tree at the moment.
I would put two clematis for climbing and some pansies in the front.
I would grow two Clematis ‘Early Senation’ a white variety & ‘Nelly Moser’ to remind me of my dear Mom. And for Spring: bulbs & Primroses & Pansies,Changing to Summer bedding later perhaps fitting in a few lettuce.
I would probably grow herbs 🙂
Definitely Clematis, they’re my favourite.
It would be just right for some ivy I’d like to plant against a wall
I would plant an evergreen white clematis called Early sensation, under planted by blue anenome blanda, for spring plus the hardy geranium Rozanne for colour from May to The first frosts
sweet peas – my favourite garden plant
Sweet peas up the trellis and some herbs
I would plant a Clematis and some violas In it.
Clematis Armandi
I would grow some climbing roses, and I might plant a mix of bulbs, so that I would see some gorgeous colours for most of the year 🙂
I would grow my dahlias as the trellis would give them support.
clematis mixed with colourful flowers x
I think it would be just perfect for growing old fashioned, scented sweet peas
This would be perfect in our small garden to expand the plants we can grow.
I WOULD LIKE TO TRY TOMATOES IN THE PLANTER
Morning glory for colour, jasmine for scent
Lovely pansies in too at front – so pretty.
I love sweet peas so would probably go with them although I love Clematis too
Wild sweet peas
I would grow sunflowers 🙂
Hostas, Hostas, Hostas, did I say I liked Hostas!!
This would be great for growing veggies up in the summer!
i would love to grow jasmine and lavender
I would put sweet peas at the back and strawberries at the front
I would grow Aubrieta, I love the vibrant purple colour, and some evergreen Clematis.x
i would love to plant up some winter pansies
I would grow a pink flowering clematis up the trellis and some bizzie lizzies to shade it’s roots in the trough!
I would love to grow a scented dwarf climbing rose if possible…it would be awesome to have it just outside the patio doors against the wall to see and benefit from the wafting aroma. x
I would grow some Clematis and pansies for some colour at the bottom.
some pretty flowering climbers x many thanks
I would use it for herbs
I would grow geraniums in mine
I think i would grow some wild sweet peas.
A clematis. In the summer i would add pink geraniums
Clematis for height and flowers like pansies, love-in-the-mist, acqualegia.
Sweet Peas
nice climbing roses to bring some scent into my garden
fuschia’s and petunias
Purple clematis and white geraniums
I would definitely put in some creeping vines. Then I would let me niece plant some sunflowers.
Clematis and lavender
id use for herbs
I would love to grow a couple of Clematis, this would be perfect for our new house :o)
would love to plant a jasmine climbing plant and then keep it updated with various bedding plants throughout the year to keep it colourful
We are getting quite into growing veg so it would probably be some peas
We are getting quite into growing veg so it would probably be peas
Clematis
we are enjoying growing are own vedges at the moment, so this would be great for us to expand xx
Would try Hyacinth, daffodils and sweet peas, depends on time of year
Climbing Fuchsia! I have a beautiful one called ‘Lady in Black’, and I’ve been trying to decide where to put it.
have got the perfect spot in my garden on a west side that sees the sun rise and would be great where we sit and have our cuppa at eleven with some lovely jasmin and winter panseys in would look great
winter pansies would look nice
Some sweet williams would be lovely but I also think some herbs would work well too.a
I would plant some sweet peas they smell lovely
I think sweet peas would be perfect here, or if my children had their way, raspberries 🙂
my balcony tomatoes as supporting them this year has been a nightmare
I would plant either Jasmine or clematis.
I’d love to put a climbing rose in the planter
I’d put a lovely mini herb garden in there
I’d like to grow Lavender in this fab planter to attract bees and butterflies to the garden
I think I would plant herbs and a mini climbing rose for a scented planter.
I love my herbs so would plant as many as I can. We have 4 dogs but unfortunately they like herbs too so being not on the ground I can make sure they do not pinch any!!! Fantastic prize, thank you x
I would plant pansies has they are my favourite flower
A clematis plant with a few snowdrops and daffodils at the front until it flowers again!
I would plant Clematis, pansy’s and snow drops and pinks
I love Ipomoea quamoclit
Sweet peas for the trellis, and some trailing plants eg trailing pale blue lobelia, and some double deep pink begonias
clematis
Herbs and climbing beans of some sort, probably French beans
I’d like to grow some stocks and viola – always seem to be good bedding plants for winter here! Xx
I’d like to grow Lavender in this
I would grow a lovely fragranced climbing rose
I would love to have some pretty lavender and rosemary to liven up our garden.
Pansies, Violas, Petunias and Jasmine – lots of vibrant colours and amazing scents
Some pansies and petunias
climbing roses
sunflowers
Sweet peas and night stock aswell as begonias and lobelia 🙂
i would plant a climbing jasmine and some colorful pansies, petunias and miniature roses in this
I would love to plant pansies and sweet peas in this awesome planter!
Sweet Peas, geraniums and busy lizzies and livingstone daisies
Lavender. I love lavender plants
I would love to plant some Primulas and Festuca Grass.
I’d plant black eyed Susies & strawberries
Awesome!!!!!
I’d plant a climbing rose and a few clematis
I would plant Sweet Pea, they would look gorgeous intertwining this lovely trellis
I would have a miniature rose in the middles of the planter and then sweet peas either side with some pansies scattered around
I’d grow my favourite flowers sweet peas in them love how delicate they look and the aroma they give off just stunning
Some sweetpeas and tulips to start with
Either sweetpeas or garden peas would be amazing
my moms favourite flower – the Clematis
Some sweet peas and maybe some jasmine
i would love one of these , i am hoping to grow some fruit next year so this would be ideal for my fruit bushes to go into
I would grow fuschias and begonias in the Toulouse trellis planter, with ivy and clematis climbing up the trellis
I’d love to grow some honeysuckle 🙂
Sweet Peas. and some bulbs
I’d love to grow honeysuckle as it reminds me of my mum growing it when I was little <3
A clementis and climbing rose, and at the base tulips, pansies and violas 🙂
I’d put it near our kitchen window & grow Jasmine so that we had the scent wafting in and some spring bulbs like mini daffodils & tulips and hyacinths
Dafodills and sweet peas 🙂
Sweet peas.
Clematis and herbs
I’d plant a honeysuckle to climb up the trellis – but I’d ensure it was a smaller variety, fragrant too and hardy. We had a beauty but it grew enormous & in high winds brought a huge trellis down under its weight. I miss having a honeysuckle as I love their fragrance. I would plant colourful winter pansies in front of the planter.
Clematis would look lovely in this
Clematis and English lavender
I would grow sweet peas – wonderfully fragrant with beautiful colours.
Herbs 🙂
I would grow pansys and violas 😀
I’d grow sweet peas and pansies
Some Chrysanthemums, to really add some colour to the garden!
I’d love to tree a fruit tree
I’d use it for herbs xxx
Sweet peas and jasmine!