High-quality Commercial Concrete Planters by Tournesol Siteworks are available in many distinctive styles, sizes, forms, and colors. Find out how GFRC, glass fiber reinforced concrete, makes these concrete garden planters lighter, stronger, and more durable than traditional concrete planters.
As a developer, general contractor, and planter manufacturer with thousands of installations spanning almost two decades, DeepStream understands commercial and homeowner needs for concrete planters.
DeepStream started as a customer of Tournesol while building one of our own residential projects. Now, almost two decades later, we have been a knowledgeable high-volume nationwide authorized distributor for more than 15 years.
Tournesol Siteworks’ concrete planters have been specified by Landscape Architects, Contractors, and Builders for more than 35 years. These fiberglass reinforced Concrete Planters are lighter, stronger, and more durable than concrete planters made with standard cement. They are backed by a 3-year warranty.
DeepStream can supply your glass-fiber-reinforced cement (GFRC) Concrete Planters in a cost-effective manner, drawing from 8 distinct GFRC Concrete Planter design collections with 12 colors and 5 textures to chose from. With thousands of installations, DeepStream understands both commercial and homeowner needs. For one planter or 100+, knowledgeable service and volume pricing have made us a high-volume national distributor for commercial and residential GFRC Concrete Planters.
From Manhattan to Hawaii, you have seen these high-quality GFRC Concrete Planters everywhere.
By adding long-strand glass fibers to the conventional cement, the strength of the material increases while decreasing the thickness. Decreasing the thickness 60% (from typically 3” in cast concrete to 1” in GFRC) directly reduces the weight by the same amount. However these planters are still at least 10X heavier than fiberglass and wood planters, and are best used at street level. They are often used as crash barriers or to block vehicles from parking or entering restricted locations.
If you have questions, need more information, or would like to discuss your project, please call Sheila at (305) 857-0466 or email her at dsdmiami@gmail.com. Sheila has decades of experience to call on as a developer, general contractor, and property manager, with thousands of planter installations and remediation project experiences to help you with budget-saving ideas.
Drain packs must be used in conjunction with a proper planting medium for container gardening, and inorganic filtering material to slow the drainage water so that any clay “fines” that could coat the geotextile will instead settle to the bottom of the liner below the side-wall drain.
When selecting your outdoor planters, keep in mind that drainage is critical to the health of your plants grown in containers, and it is very difficult to remedy after the fact. The design of the planter liner is one of the important components.
Generally, more tended plants die from drowning than from lack of water. “Old school” drain holes on the bottom and gravel drainage medium simply do not work and will quickly clog. DeepStream elevates the drainage hole center approximately 2″ up the sides of your liners to provide a “reservoir” for the tap roots, but more importantly, that space allows clay “fines” present in all most all planting mediums to settle instead of clogging drain packs.
DeepStream pioneered modern drainage practices with side-wall drains and 3-layer drain filter packs. DeepStream places from one to three 3/4″ threaded drainage ports on its 16 stock proprietary plastic planter liners, to which various plugs, hose barbs and valves may be attached. Liners are non-structural and are meant to be placed inside planter boxes.
Depending on your plants, planting mixture, and local climate, you may need to add more drains. Additional drain holes can be added as required by drilling additional holes in the side walls with a hole saw bit. If additional threaded ports are needed we stock two-part watertight bulkhead fittings.
Planting mediums for container gardening are as varied as local climates and plant species. Here in Florida, we can get 6” of rain in a day in the rainy season, so we need a quick draining material and we often add perlite. If you have a dry climate, you may need to add more vermiculite to retain water. Since Florida also has a dry season where it my not rain for a month or more at a time, we use drip irrigation, as the planting medium we use for the rainy season dries out far too quickly during the dry season. For more in-depth information on drip irrigation, drainage, and the many aspects of container gardening check the Helpful Resource Links to planterblog.com listed at the bottom of this page.
Garden planters from wood, aluminum, plastic, fiberglass, and concrete. Square, rectangular, round, small, tall, extra large for trees, on wheels, with gates, DeepStream’s craftsmen can provide all your modern planter, planter liner, and drainage needs in customs sizes at factory direct prices.
An unlimited selection of Landscape Architect grade commercial and residential garden planters you can buy directly from the American craftsmen.
Read on to get an overview and description of DeepStream’s wide range of garden planters, or follow the headings below to go directly to that planter page which will open in a new window.
Engineered and hand crafted in America with a Lifetime Structural Warranty. Don’t confuse DeepStream Custom Wood Garden Planters for carpenter built planters that will fall apart in 3-5 years, or fiberglass planters with a 3 year warranty.
Anodized extruded aluminum legs, with no paint or powder coating to fail, engineered to eliminate fasteners and contain the tremendous expansionary forces of wood as it cycles through countless wet and dry cycles. The legs support the hidden structural aircraft aluminum frame and are isolated from surfaces by replaceable HDPE plastic feet. Using legs of varying heights, we create an integral frame that supports accessories like screen wall, trellis, gates, and casters by design, not as an afterthought.
A separate planter box with an almost unlimited choice of panel materials, including ever-popular tropical hardwood and maintenance-free recycled plastic lumber. The planter box provides an air gap between it and the liner, which prevents solar gain from heating the root ball and hides drip irrigation and drainage systems.
Food Safe Plastic Garden Planters welded from HDPE sheet are stronger and less expensive than fiberglass planters. Made from solid sheets of HDPE plastic, or planks of recycled plastic, they are a solid color throughout so they don’t show scratches in the same way fiberglass or painted metal planters do. HDPE will not absorb paint or dirt and as they are not painted they may be pressure washed for sanitation. Graffiti may be removed with paint remover or a light sanding so they are perfect for rugged urban street life.
More flexible than fiberglass HDPE Food Safe Planters will not crack like fiberglass, engineering and construction techniques in the welding process or the hidden structural aluminum frame makes them much more durable.
Mariner Food Safe Recycled Plastic Lumber Planters, below, are crafted with DeepStream’s Mariner structural aluminum frame and have a Lifetime Structural Warranty. Mariner planters hare all the same design attributes as DeepStream’s entire line of Wood Planters except, unlike natural tropical hardwood, they require no maintenance and do not require wood harvested from the rapidly diminishing Tropical Rain Forests of the world.
In keeping with DeepStream’s commitment to Sustainable Design and craftsmanship, we create square and rectangular commercial grade Aluminum Garden Planters in a natural finish 5086 Marine alloy. We also wholesale popular, cost-effective aluminum planters manufactured from 5052 alloy and powder coated for us in any color a customer specifies.
Thinner, powder coated 5052 aluminum planters are a cost- conscious option that can be built to custom sizes in rectangular, square, tapered, or round shapes, with a folded-over lip for strength and rigidity, then given a powder coat finish in any color.
DeepStream Plastic Liners and 3-layer Drain Pads with TREMdrain & Biobarrier complete your Wood Planter
When selecting your outdoor garden planters, keep in mind that drainage is critical to the health of your plants grown in containers, and it is very difficult to remedy after the fact.
DeepStream pioneered modern drainage practices with side-wall drains and 3-layer drain filter pads. DeepStream places from one to three 3/4″ threaded drainage ports on its 16 proprietary stock plastic planter liners, to which various plugs, hose barbs, and valves may be attached. Liners are non-structural and are meant to be placed inside planter boxes.
Generally, more container-grown plants die from drowning than from lack of water. “Old school” drain holes on the bottom and gravel drainage medium simply do not work and will quickly clog. DeepStream elevates the drainage hole center approximately 2″ up the sides of your liners to provide a “reservoir” for the tap roots and allow clay “fines” in all planting mediums to settle instead of clogging drain packs.
Garden Planter liners prevent the soil from contacting the wood, preventing rot, while promoting drainage. The air space the liner creates between itself and the planter box prevents the root-ball from getting warmer than the ambient air. This space also allows you to hide drip irrigation lines and wiring for lights. The tapered shape reduces shipping costs, and makes root conditioning and replanting slide-out-easy.
Custom Planter Liners
Depending on your plants, planting mixture, and local weather, you may need to add more drains to your garden plantes. Additional drain holes can be added as required by drilling additional holes in the side walls.
DeepStream’s advanced 3-Layer Drain Pad
Drain pads, when used in conjunction with clean 1-2 mm inorganic drainage material to slow the flow of the water to the drain, could prevent clogged drains for a decade or more in your garden planters. Biobarrier will not stop aggressive root systems like runner bamboo and Clusia.
If you have questions, need more information, or would like to discuss your project, please call Sheila at (305) 857-0466 or email her at dsdmiami@gmail.com. Sheila has decades of experience to call on as a developer, general contractor, and property manager, with thousands of planter installations and remediation project experiences to help you with budget-saving ideas.