Long Wood Garden Planters

DeepStream’s Long Wood Garden Planters are a complete multi-section modular landscaping system specified by Architects and Landscape Architects. Engineered with 3 components and the principles of sustainable design, they provide the lowest total cost of ownership over time for the owner and the environment.

These modern, modular, Long Wood Garden Planters can be combined in runs of any length. The elimination of end panels and hidden backs makes them more economical than individual planters. They assemble in 10-15 minutes per section without skilled labor, and do not require cranes, permits, or roof penetrations. Backed by a Lifetime Structural Warranty, unlike fiberglass planters with a 2-3 year warranty, they last for decades.

Don’t confuse our modern, modular, commercial Long 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 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.
• Rugged waterproof, food safe, UV-resistant, 100% recycled LLDPE plastic rotomolded liners with advanced drainage and threaded drain ports.

Modular Long Wood Planters are more economical to ship and place on site than fiberglass planters or stand alone planters of any material. Packaged with every other section assembled, they save freight costs. Joining sections is slip-in easy, requiring 10-15 minutes per section with unskilled labor and a provided #3 Phillips head battery screwdriver. No roof deck, roof membrane, or wall penetrations are required.

Custom American Craftsmanship ensures your Project is a success, completed on time and on budget.

DeepStream is an American manufacturer with a single point of contact. You work directly with our principals who are as invested in your project’s success as you are. We have no salespeople or distributors.

Your success is our success, so we take steps to ensure your project goes perfectly, not as a “supplier,” but as a trusted member of your team. For 15 years we have been crafting landscaping systems for installations atop central financial district residential and office skyscrapers where it would be a huge inconvenience if everything did not go as planned, a part was missing, or a fastener got dropped irretrievably into a void.

To eliminate this possibility your project is completely pre-assembled, tagged, photographed, disassembled, and packaged with photo instructions, extra fasteners, and tools to ensure that everything goes together perfectly. Your team gets the instructions and receiving information before the shipment leaves our workshop so you know in advance exactly what resources you will need.

Planters systems are often the last part of the project to be installed. Even if your as-built dimensions vary significantly from your blueprints, we have your back. The modular nature of our design and the flexibility of our craftsman-centric manufacturing process means that, with one phone call, we can have altered components shipped to you overnight so your valuable C.O. is not delayed.

DeepStream’s Long Wood Garden Planters are a complete prefabricated modular system with many benefits: 

• Liner-inside-a-planter-box design eliminates root ball solar gain, hides irrigation lines, waterproof liner, and drainage.
• Trademark T and L legs extruded from marine-anodized aluminum mean there is no paint or powder coating to fail.
• Standard leg heights: 21”, 31”, and 42″, with custom lengths available.
• Rugged, tapered liners rotomolded from UV-resistant, food-safe, 100% recycled LLDPE plastic, with threaded side-wall drain ports for advanced drainage options.
• A facade that meets your design criteria: wood, recycled HDPE plastic lumber, or exotic materials like 3form, slate, or marble.
• Hidden structural aluminum frame is engineered to add options like casters and screen wall using wood, glass, aluminum, or 3form Eco-resin, by design, not as an afterthought.
• Damaged parts are replaceable at direct factory cost with unique “core replacement program.”
• Lifetime Structural Warranty.

Maintenance-Free Recycled Food Safe HDPE Plastic Lumber or Natural Tropical Hardwoods?

Tropical Hardwood and Recycled Plastic Lumber (RPL) each have their uses. Specifying UV-stabilized no-maintenance 100% Recycled HDPE Plastic Lumber makes it easy and cost-effective to go Green.

Direct Link to a pro and con comparison of recycled plastic lumber vs tropical hardwood and color choices.

Direct Link to understanding the environmental considerations of your choice, and how choosing recycled plastic helps slow the deforestation of the rainforest.

Unlike carpenter-built or fiberglass planters with a 2-3 year warranty, DeepStream’s planters all carry a Lifetime Structural Warranty, and are proven to last for decades.

Tight timeline? We eliminate delays and confusion.

DeepStream’s Long Wood Garden Planters use American components that we keep in stock. We don’t sell products, we sell solutions to operational challenges, with a goal of crafting cost-effective solutions to your design challenges, enhancing spaces for your clients, even on a tight budget and timeline.

Nothing is off the shelf. Each solution we craft is handmade in our shop to your specifications by well-paid American craftsmen with a pride of ownership — no assembly line here. Please see our impressive list of customers with whom we have collaborated on past projects. There is never a design or custom fee; we offer volume discounts that directly reflect the cost savings of larger orders.

Value engineering and design flexibility

Our commercial Modular Multi-section Planter Systems eliminate the expense of multiple end panels, and they can be value engineered. In many situations, Modular Multi-Section Garden Planters back up to a wall, so you may be able to completely eliminate unnecessary back planks, or install just the top plank for visual continuity in the winter.

On a roof deck, elevated terrace, or balcony, modular Long Wood Garden Planters are a perfect solution to line a parapet wall, create a barrier around equipment, demise or limit a space, control access, block dangers, or direct traffic on temporary or permanent basis without roof penetrations. Long modular planters hide labor saving drip irrigations systems, drainage systems, and wiring for lights and stereo speakers.

Even years later, should the need arise to change a planter configuration or access a roof membrane for repair or inspection, modules may be disassembled and modified with a few inexpensive pieces based on our digital archives and computerized cutting accuracy.

Are you developing a hotel or condo with a lushly landscaped pool area above street level and need a protective screen wall barrier between it and a rooftop bar, restaurant, or seating area? DeepStream’s modern modular Long Wood Garden Planters are a lightweight and easy way to create essential structures for your design in an eco-friendly way, without the worry of structural damage from leaking built-in concrete planters, roof membrane penetrations, or fragile fiberglass. 

Home owners and multi-family developments can also gain a competitive marketing advantage and enhance quality of life by adding cost-effective modern modular multi-section commercial planters to roof terraces and balconies. The engineering of the structural aluminum frame holding the planter box and waterproof liner integrates options like privacy screens or trellis, so there is no need for roof or wall penetrations.

BUDGET PRICING:

DeepStream’s modern modular Long Wood Garden Planters are more cost-effective than the same number of individual planters because they require less material. They will not cause structural damage like built-in concrete planters, and they will last decades longer than fiberglass or carpenter-built wood planters, while delivering a much lower total cost of ownership over time for both you and the environment.

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.  

Our 21.5” high multi-section planters, with panels on all four sides, run about $275-$295/linear foot for recycled plastic lumber, and $295-$315 for solid hardwoods, including commercial-grade molded plastic liners.  For 31.5″ high multi-section planters add 20-25%.

We’ve built many value engineered, budget stretching, one-sided facades for permanent installation along walls—why spend money on the back side of a beautiful planter wall that no one will see? No-maintenance recycled plastic lumber planters with DeepStream’s trademark marine-anodized legs save labor, as they can be pressure cleaned, since there is no paint or powder coating to fail. they also hide labor saving drip irrigation systems, drainage systems, and wiring for lights.

While there are volume discounts, there is never a design fee or custom fee. Custom planters really do not cost more, but prices vary depending on size, material yields, and set up times.

We can design the planters to use a combination of less expensive stock molded planter liners, although more expensive custom-welded planter liners are always an option.

Depending on your project’s needs, planter liners can be installed raised with the structural aluminum frame supporting the liners or sitting on foam blocks.  Projects requiring large, deeper planters may benefit from self-supporting liners sitting on foam roofing blocks to save materials and money.

DeepStream’s commercial quality lightweight, modern, modular, Long Wood Garden Planters are ideal to anchor trellises, enclosures with gates, or screen walls for privacy, access control, security, or protection without costly, problematic roof membrane penetrations.

DeepStream’s stand-alone and modular Long Wood Garden Planters can be ordered with our trademark Mariner extrusions in differential heights to create integrated screen wall panels. Planter anchored Screen Walls can be made from any appropriate material, including wood or aluminum planks, or full panels of glass, 3form Eco-Resin, acrylic, or with laser-cut designs from many weatherproof materials.

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.  

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

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.

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

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.

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