Food Safe Plastic Garden Planters

Food Safe Plastic Garden Planters are a stronger and more flexible alternative to fiberglass. DeepStream has two models that are perfect for both residential and commercial projects, like restaurants and urban streetscapes.

Custom Welded Food Safe Plastic Garden Planters

Modern tall and short, square and rectangular Food Safe Plastic Planters on Wheels are shown in a tropical Miami roof deck setting.
DeepStream’s modern Food Safe Plastic Garden Planters on Wheels have a recessed aluminum base making them hard to tell from stationary planters. Perfect for Restaurants with flexible seating plans, to move for cleaning, roll away at night, or move inside from a balcony.
Modern tall and short, square, and rectangular Food Safe Plastic Planters on Wheels are shown in a tropical Miami roof deck setting. with one planter on its side to show the hidden caster wheels' aluminum mounting plate.
Food Safe Plastic Garden Planters on Wheels rest on a recessed aluminum base that is custom-designed at any height to allow your planters to roll over door sills or obstacles while remaining unobtrusive.

Food Safe Plastic Garden Planters made with HDPE, high density polyethylene, is a solid color throughout, so your planters won’t show scratches in the same way fiberglass or painted metal planters do, and graffiti can be easily cleaned off. HDPE plastic resists UV in sunlight and makes food safe planters safe, think kitchen cutting board, making them perfect to grow herbs and vegetables. HDPE is also waterproof, so planters don’t need a liner. Hammered Nickel and Shale are just two of the contemporary colors available.

Modern tall and short, square and rectangular Food Safe Plastic Planters are shown in Shale Grey and Hammered Nickel colors with and without optional food safe plastic planter liners in a tropical Miami roof deck setting.
DeepStream’s modern Food Safe Plastic Garden Planters, shown in Shale Grey and Hammered Nickel quick ship colors, are a study in rugged architectural minimalism that transcends time and fads, while standing up to urban environments, indoor or outside.

Are you looking for an attractive, lower cost commercial planter that will stand up to the hard knocks of life on the streets? Not only is HDPE a solid color throughout, so HDPE Planters do not show scratches in the same way fiberglass or painted metal planters do, but you can also use a random orbital sander to effortlessly create a unique new finish.

Studio photos of Shale and Hammered Nickel color samples of HDPE plastic sheet for custom welded Food Safe Plastic Planters.
Two of the modern color HDPE Plastic sheets that we stock for quick delivery custom welded planters: Shale and Hammered Nickel. Shale has a “orange peel” finish, while the Hammered Nickel has a small scalloped finish. Many more colors and textures are available, call for color samples.

HDPE will not absorb paint or dirt, and as they are not painted, they may be pressure washed for sanitation. If a pressure cleaner won’t take graffiti off, it may be removed with paint remover or a light sanding, so they are perfect for rugged urban street life.

Whether for use at home, your restaurant, or commercial business, DeepStream’s customizable HDPE Food Safe Plastic Planters might be just what you are looking for. Environmentally friendly HDPE planters can be recycled again at the end of their long life.

Modern tall and short, square and rectangular Food Safe Plastic Planters are shown in Shale Grey and Hammered Nickel colors with one planter showing exactly how the optional food safe plastic stock planter liner fits inside.
Food Safe Plastic Planters come with a 3-year warranty against factory defects or structural failure. Equipped with DeepStream’s stock rotomolded planter liner inside, the warranty is extended to 5 years. If you’re landscaping with plants or trees that have an aggressive root system like runner bamboo or Clusia purchase, a 3/16” thick 5086 Aluminum Planter instead, as the root ball will expand to the point that it will separate any seam and even rip the strongest plastic, or fracture fiberglass.

Food Safe Plastic Planters may be direct-planted without using liners, or customized with liners with advanced drainage to extend the 3-year warranty to 5 years , while eliminating solar gain from heating the roots. As with all planters, for plants with aggressive roots like Bamboo or Clusia, we recommend using DeepStream’s rugged Planter Liners to aid in root management and replanting, or order our Aluminum Planters.

Two photos showing how welded cross straps not only stiffen large, tall food safe plastic planter walls, but they can also support a plant shelf or a waterproof stock planter liner, as shown here.
To reduce complexity and keep costs for tall planters to a minimum, your HDPE Planters can be built with inner cross-straps to support DeepStream’s landscape contractor-grade rotomolded plastic planter liners or a simple shelf for removable potted plants at any height to meet your landscaping requirements.

To reduce complexity and keep costs for tall planters to a minimum, your HDPE Planters can be built with inner cross-straps to support DeepStream’s landscape contractor grade rotomolded plastic liner or a simple shelf for removable potted plants at any height to meet your landscaping requirements.

DeepStream’s tall planters, often used by restaurants, do not need to be filled with expensive, messy soil as a ballast material for stability. Fill with a foot or so of inexpensive water and simply pull the plug to drain them and when you need to.

Photo shows a short square Food Safe Plastic Planter with an optional planter liner that will rest on foam block inside the planter to allow efficient drainage with minimal costs.
Shorter planters with optional liners to maximize the warranty period, improve drainage, and ease repotting. The planter liners may rest on foam block efficiently at minimal cost.

When ordering shorter planters with optional liners to maximize the warranty period, improve drainage, and ease repotting, the planter liners may rest on foam block efficiently at minimal cost.

In rainy locations, our planters include a self-regulating, variable depth ballast system that lowers the center of gravity with a water overflow port. There is a drainage port at the bottom of the planter, eliminating messy weep holes. When the planters need to be moved, they can be easily and cleanly lightened by draining the water, unlike planters ballasted with soil or other material.

Food Safe Plastic Planters Prices Vs Fiberglass Planters Prices
Food Safe Plastic Garden Planter Prices vs Fiberglass Planter Prices. Zinc casters and mounting base for planters on wheels add between $230 and $310. Add $130 to that price for stainless-steel casters. *Note that budget pricing may change as materials costs change.

Mariner Food Safe Plastic Wood Planters with a hidden aluminum Frame and Lifetime Structural Warranty

Square and rectangular Food Safe Plastic Planters specified by Landscape Architects are available factory-direct as both stand-alone planters up to 72″, or money-saving long planters of unlimited length using our modular structural frame design. Crafted from 100% recycled 3/4″ thick tongue and groove solid environmentally friendly no-maintenance HDPE recycled plastic lumber.

Chic modern Food Safe Plastic Planters in slate grey no-maintenance recycled plastic lumber and anodized aluminum control access to a modern clubhouse outdoor lounge with long white curtains pulled back around a ceiling shade grid open to the bright blue sky.
Every garden planter DeepStream builds is handcrafted in America, so modern Food Safe Plastic Planters like these are created to meet your specific needs without custom fees, design fees, or wait times. Unlike fragile fiberglass planters, these will last for decades and are backed by a Lifetime Structural Warranty, not the 2–3-year warranty you get with a fiberglass planter. Separate waterproof liners are raised off the deck for easy cleaning, preventing health code violations, and hide labor saving drip irrigation and wiring for lights. With marine-anodized legs, there is no paint or powder coating to fail, so they may be pressure cleaned for sanitation.

Don’t confuse our Landscape Architect-grade Mariner Food Safe Plastic Lumber Wood Planters with carpenter-built boxes that will fall apart in 3-5 years. These are a complete 3-component engineered Landscaping System:

  • Anodized extruded aluminum legs, with no paint or powder coating to fail, engineered to eliminate fasteners and designed accommodate the lateral expansionary forces of HDPE plastic as it cycles through countless cycles of heating and cooling as the seasons change and the daily solar gain heats them. 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.
  • The planter box with maintenance-free recycled plastic lumber is contained by the frame, providing an air gap between it and the food safe plastic planter liner, which prevents solar gain from heating the root ball, and hides drip irrigation and drainage systems.
  • Rugged waterproof, food-safe, UV-resistant, 100% recycled LLDPE plastic rotomolded liners with advanced drainage and threaded drain ports. Planters may be pressure cleaned, as there is no paint or powder coating to fail.
Ipe brown recycled HDPE plastic lumber Food Safe Plastic Planters growing produce while providing separation between seating areas at a farm-to-table restaurant's outdoor roof terrace dining area under red umbrellas.
Labor-saving Landscape Architect grade Food Safe Plastic Planters made with DeepStream’s proprietary trademark anodized aluminum legs and maintenance-free Recycled HDPE Plastic Lumber may be pressure cleaned, as they have no paint or powder coating to fail. The hidden food safe waterproof plastic planter liners, fitted with advanced drainage and drip irrigation, are the perfect labor-saving planter for container gardening at ground level or on a roof terrace. Backed by a Lifetime Structural Warranty, unlike the 3-year warranty for fiberglass planters with finishes that can crack and chip.
Ipe Brown recycled plastic lumber is used to create these large, tall Food Safe Plastic Planters equipped with a food safe waterproof liner growing produce set among the tables of a farm-to-table restaurant’s outdoor roof terrace dining area.
Talk about farm fresh! No-maintenance Ipe Brown recycled plastic HDPE lumber and DeepStream’s proprietary structural aluminum legs create Landscape Architect-grade Food Safe Plastic Planters and waterproof plastic liners with advanced drainage and drip irrigation. Perfect for growing produce among the tables of a farm-to-table restaurant’s outdoor roof terrace dining area. Pressure cleanable for sanitation as there is no paint or powder coating to fail.
Extra-Large modern Food Safe Plastic Planters and outdoor museum benches in Weathered Wood colored recycled plastic lumber create a natural atmosphere and grow herbs for the roof deck outdoor BBQ and dining area of an apartment building.
General contractors find that the modular design of these extra-large built-in modern Commercial Food Safe Plastic Planters make them easy to install without skilled labor, cranes, or special tools. The planters and matching outdoor museum benches make the roof terrace BBQ area of this Texas apartment building a favorite amenity of residents.
Tall movable Food Safe Plastic Planters on Wheels, crafted of Weathered Wood colored maintenance free recycled plastic lumber, create privacy by separating lounge areas on a pool deck of a Hawaiian hotel overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Tall movable Food Safe Plastic Planters on Wheels, crafted from maintenance free recycled plastic lumber, are a perfect labor-saving way to separate lounging areas for privacy while maintaining site flexibility and allowing proper cleaning.

For more information on Mariner Planters Click this Link.

DeepStream’s Mariner Food Safe Plastic Planters have a frame engineered to anchor integral screen walls and trellises, eliminating problematic penetrations through roof membranes or into city sidewalks.

They usually qualify for “temporary structure” status, eliminating most permitting required by building and city codes when used on roof terraces, balconies, or sidewalks. For more information on Screen Walls, click this Link.

The exterior view of large Ipe Brown maintenance-free, Food Safe Plastic Planters combine with our modular frame system to anchor an aluminum screen wall installation, complete with gates, bench seats, and landscaping, that encloses a restaurant’s outdoor smoking area.
Modern, long, Food Safe Plastic Planters have a modular structural aluminum frame that allows for quick slide-in-easy assembly without skilled labor or special tools. The integral frame is engineered to mount optional Screen Wall Panels, Benches, and code-required Gates for this custom prefabricated instant outdoor smoking section at a popular wine bar restaurant. The owner chose labor-saving no-maintenance recycled HDPE plastic lumber as it can be pressure cleaned for sanitation and will last for decades. The aluminum legs and privacy screen wall are anodized aluminum, so there is no paint or powder coating to fail.
Ultra-Modern Food Safe Plastic Planters crafted with white recycled HDPE plastic lumber are mounted with integrated glass security screen wall and stainless steel door for the iconic Los Angeles International Airport’s futuristic central hub.
Iconic structures need iconic planter designs. Architects rely on DeepStream’s Modern no-maintenance Food Safe Plastic Planters to anchor a low-key security entrance screen wall. Crafted with white recycled HDPE plastic lumber Mariner Planters with integrated glass security screen wall and stainless steel door fit the ultra-modern design criteria for Los Angeles International Airport’s iconic futuristic central hub, the Theme Building.

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.  

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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.

DeepStream Designs rugged 100% recycled Stock Plastic Planter Liners

16 different size and shaped commercial planter liners are displayed on a tropical roof top deck landscaped with green palms trees, bamboo, and podocarpus. A large man is standing on top of one of the garden planter liners to show how strong they are.
DeepStream commercial planter liners with advanced drainage.

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.

Detailed photo on a tropical roof terrace showing how easy DeepStream's tapered stock planter liners with advanced drainage make it to replant and recondition roots.
DeepStream’s tapered stock planter liners with advanced drainage make them economical to ship and easy to replant and recondition roots.

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

A Custom Welded Waterproof Plastic Planter Liner shown on a table in front of bamboo in a tropical roof deck garden
DeepStream welds Waterproof Planter Liners to fit any size planter.
A Custom Welded Modular Planter Liner with hidden drainage and drip irrigation for a large commercial roof deck landscaping installation holding partially planted trees and bushes.
These Custom-Welded Modular Planter Liners for a large commercial roof deck landscaping project are equipped with hidden drainage and drip irrigation.

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.

Waterproof liner and the components of DeepStream's 3-part advanced drainage filter pad.
The basic components of DeepStream’s 3-part advanced drainage filter pad: drain board, filter fabric and Biobarrier.
DeepStream Advanced 3-Part Planter Liner Drain-Pad shown as components and finished pad.
DeepStream’s advanced drainage pads: TremDrain Board improves drainage area and efficiency, filter fabric reduces drain blockage by silt and organic material, Biobarrier helps prevent root blockage.

Direct Link to detailed Stock Planter Liner Page with Sizes and Pricing

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Tips for improving Planter Drainage

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.

Need important information on Selecting Planter Liners before you purchase? This blog post will help.

Examples of Installations shown on Archello

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