Pots and planters are common for any garden, whether you are practicing container gardening or not. We usually use them for nothing else but planting but I’d like to offer you a totally different idea. If you have a broken terracotta pot at hand or a couple of such pots, don’t throw them away, upcycle them into something cool! Why using broken pots? This is sustainable, it’s about giving new life to old things, even not just old but broken. Besides, it’s a cool way to give a new and out-of-the-box touch to your garden, to outdoor and even indoor spaces – seeing beauty in imperfections is a unique view of life. What to turn a broken pot into? It can be a mini garden or a garden decoration like a spill flower pot or just make a garden in a piece of pot to upcycle and get a creative touch to your garden decor. We’ve rounded up some ideas on both, take a look!
Broken Pot Mini Gardens
Make a mini garden of your broken pot or several pots. How to do that? First of all, take a large broken pot or even break one if you want. Use the shards and parts of the pot to create a terraced look and plant something you like: succulents and cacti, bright groundcovers and greenery, moss or blooms. Add pebbles and rocks and voila! You may also get a larger garden making it of several broken pots placed into each other. If you like fairy tale gardens or want to excite your kids, for example, you can add fairy houses and furniture, little fairy and animal figurines to the planters.

This broken planter shows off various colorful succulents, it's a compact garden suitable for both indoors and outdoors.

A unique broken pot decoration with succulents and cacti, pieces of pot, figurines and ladders is a cool desert style mini garden.

Create a whole fairy garden in a broken pot, fill it with moss, succulents, berries, mini figurines and an arch, it will be adorable.

A glossy broken planter with bright blooms and even tiny veggies is a creative decor idea for a garden, it can be placed anywhere.

This broken planter features a couple of planters inside, with succulents, greenery and some rocks, and looks creative, textural and eye-catching.

A broken planter fairy garden with stairs, pebbles, moss, lovely figurines and some blooms and succulents is a fab solution if you like fairytales.

This large terracotta planter with pebbles, moss, succulents looks all-natural as if it was always planted like that, and a piece of it is missing.

A broken planter with pieces put inside to create a leveled look, with greenery, succulents, a hedge figurine and some rocks.

A large terracotta planter with a fairy garden, with moss, succulents, pebbles, mini houses is a fun and cute decoration.

A large broken planter with shards creating a leveled look and cute succulents is a fantastic decoration for both indoors and outdoors.

An oversized planter fairy garden with a leveled look, with moss, succulents, blooms, pebbles and a fairy house and greenery.

A broken pot in a bowl, with pebbles, cacti, succulents and greenery is a beautiful mini garden with creative styling.

A concrete planter with its shards and other planters inside, with succulents, cacti and a little gnome is a fresh idea to create a tiny garden.

A cascading garden made of terracotta, succulents, pebbles and gravel is a lovely decoration for a porch or a garden.

A colorful fairy garden in a broke pot, with bright blooms and greenery, a staircase of shards, pebbles, a fairy house and garden furniture.

This bright compact garden is made of a broken pot, with greenery and funny figurines, and it's a fun and cool idea.

This terraced mini garden of a pot shows off greenery and foliage, some rocks and a tiny house on top, it can be a nice outdoor decoration.

This bright and whimsical mini garden is a terraced piece with shards, succulents, greenery, bold foliage and little faux ladybugs.

A broken planter with shards, white pebbles, succulents and bright groundcovers is a lovely mini succulent garden.

This little fairy garden in a pot shows off greenery and foliage, a fairy pergola and a staircase made of shards, it will be gorgeous for a fanciful touch.

A large broken planter with pebbles and rocks, with succulents and cacti is a beautiful desert-like mini landscape.

A blue broken pot with lots of succulents and some blooms, with some bright groundcovers, is a cool and catchy decoration.

A broken pot with more several pots inside, with succulents, rocks and branches is a creative decoration for outdoors.

A broken pot with an additional one on top, with rocks, succulents and blooms is a bold decoration with a bit of upcycling.

Two whitewashed terracotta pots with shards, some blooming groundcovers and a mini fairy house are great for outdoor decorating.

A broken pot with lilac and pink mini garden, with rocks, dark foliage and groundcovers, a well and a pink fence plus some blooms.

A big broken piece with shards, succulents, moss, cacti and a bit of glass pebbles and a mini teapot is a cool decoration.

An oversized terracotta planter with one more on top shows off a large succulent and greenery garden suitable for both indoors and outdoors.

A quirky decoration of two broken pots with moss, succulents, a stump and a figurine is a cool idea for adding interest to your garden.

The shards of the broken planter create a unique terraced garden with gravel, succulents and some greenery, like a large on but in miniature.

A piece of pot with succulents and some other broken ones are a unique take on usual potted succulents, this is much more creative.

A large glazed broken planter with colorful succulents all over is a gorgeous decoration for both indoors and outdoors.

A broken urn with a pot inside and some colorful succulents is a fab outdoor decoration, perfect for a porch.

Go creative making a small terraced garden of several broken pots, with pebbles, succulents and some figurines.

A multi-tiered broken planter with lots of succulents, greenery and bright flowers on top is a fantastic decoration for outdoors.

Two broken pots placed in each other with groundcovers and succulents are an adorable decoration and a new take on usual potted succulents.
Broken Pot Garden Decor
A broken planter can be used to create spill flower pot decor – place it into the ground and plant blooms to create a spill effect. You may also take part of your pot and plant something in it, it will be a nice addition to a usual pot arrangement. Such pieces of planters work nice in front yards and on porches – no one expects to see that, and your porch will stand out. Get inspired and break some pots if you don’t have ready ones.

Part of a broken planter with a small succulent garden and rocks is a pretty natural decoraiton for outdoors.

An arrangement of broken vases, with greenery and succulents and gravel on top is a creative outdoor decoration.

Porch decor with potted greenery and a broken piece with pebbles and succulents is a cute and out-of-the-box idea.

A broken planter with moss, succulents and cacti is a creative way to upcycle a broken pot even if it's almost completely broken.

A broken planter used as a spill pot decoration, with lots of succulents that seem to be falling out of the pot.