White Petunias Antique Arrangement Ideas

Transform your summer flower containers with the timeless beauty of white petunias. Explore rustic and vintage-inspired arrangement ideas.

White Petunias

Petunias are flowering plants that are commonly grown as ornamental plants in gardens and containers. They belong to the Solanaceae family and are native to South America. Petunias are known for their brightly colored flowers, which come in various shades of pink, purple, white, and red. They have a trumpet-like shape and a pleasant fragrance. Petunias are popular choices for adding color and beauty to flower beds, hanging baskets, and window boxes. They are relatively easy to grow and require regular watering and sunlight to thrive.

White Petunias are my choice of flower for all of our outdoor flower arrangements this year.

A Nostalgic Story of White Flowers

My mother loved decorating her flower containers with simple white flowers in the summertime.

Now, she didn’t always do this. Red geraniums were also a time-honored tradition.

But it was in her golden years when she rested upon this delightful, clean look of all-white summer flowers.

Why?

Well, white is simply classic and historic.

White flowers are stunning in vintage containers.

And white summer flowers are effortless to maintain. Specifically white Geraniums and Pretty Grand Petunias.

A Note To You: I am not a gardener. I love thrifting, antiquing, and decorating. Today’s post is all about using white petunias to decorate one’s backyard, along with vintage, antique, and thrifted containers to obtain a time-honored outdoor New England summer style. If you have any gardening tips, please gladly share them in the comment section below.

Historical Essex Green by Benjamin Moore

And when white petunias are paired with the color dark green, it’s a match made in heaven.

The white flowers are an ideal match and contrast with our historical Essex Green house trim and cedar shake siding at our home in Coastal Maine.

And I’m also using the same “Essex Green” paint color on a couple of urns, which you may see more of in the post, How to Easily Upcycle Plastic Urns.

I also painted this raised garden bed in “Essex Green” and filled it with white Petunias this year. See more in the post, My First Time Using a Paint Sprayer, What You Need to Know.

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Antique Garden Relics

You already know that I’m all about vintage, and I know you are, too, if you are reading this post.

So, let’s start by gathering in the garage and seeing what my mother left for us to play with today.

From rustic cast iron garden plant stands, vintage pots, garden stakes, and even an old leaning garden ram, my mother had left it all for me to enjoy, as she had also fancied for years.

Read more in the post, Coastal Maine Heritage – Embracing My Roots.

Each and every one of these garden relics brilliantly accents the white petunias brilliantly.

White Petunias in Pots

Here in the backyard along our stone walkway to the backdoor, I propped this antique garden planter with white petunias into the Pachysandra next to the old rusted ram garden stake, originally placed by my mother.

Friendly Tip! The cast iron pots I used for my white petunias are seriously old and have cracks in each one. However, these cracks allow the water to drain through the cast iron planters. If there are no cracks and/or holes in your vintage vessels, you may get significant water buildup and mold, as an FYI.

The Cedar Wood Garden Bed I painted “Essex Green” is filled with Petunias and resides underneath the guest bedroom windows in the same backyard Pachysandra walkway.

I have high hopes that the Petunias will fill in beautifully as they grow and fill out over the summer.

White Petunias Bouquet

Next, I created an outdoor table centerpiece with white Petunias in another antique cast iron pot.

Our outdoor table is a fully weathered outdoor teak dining set, very traditional for coastal homes. As teak can easily withstand the harsh New England weather year-round. You can keep the teak looking rich in its original brown coloring or let it weather into a gray finish, as we chose to do.

The rusted cast iron pot with the white Petunias is tastefully mixed with two outdoor oil torches in an effort to keep the summer bugs away…

I love how these vintage cast iron pots have easily become rustic summer flower planters.

And all these summer flower planters match so quaintly with my Adored One-of-a-Kind Handmade Birdhouse Restored, too.

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Maine Clam Roller

I arranged the next vintage white petunias planter around the fire pit with this old, weathered Maine clam roller I found in the garage.

Do you know what a Maine clam roller is?

A vintage clam hod (clam roller) is a 1/2-bushel basket constructed of wood lathes or slats used to carry clams and hold them for rinsing. It is typically used by hand-diggers, who lean on the handle of the hod in a push-up-like position, helping the hand-digger bend over less.

I even had to look this part up! I knew they were used for clams, but I never knew that the hod was used this way. Too funny!

Later in the day, my husband, Steve, lit the fire pit and burned some of the old, unnecessary things we had lying around.

You may see more of this DIY fire pit in the post, How to Build a Simple and Classic Stone Fire Pit.

White Geranium Window Boxes

The home’s only 2 window boxes, I filled with white geraniums, which took a bit of a beating in all of the rain we recently had.

But are making a quick comeback.

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White Petunias Hanging Pot

Another favorite rustic planter I hung at the front door is this deep cast iron cauldron filled with white Petunias.

I believe this old cast iron cauldron is an antique bean pot.

I’ve had white flowers in this spot before at the front door, and they have always thrived. So I’m really looking forward to seeing these Petunias take off.

And I was going to share with you the two “Essex Green” urns displaying white Geraniums that I have standing guard at each of our front doors. But they took on such a trouncing with the two weeks of rain we recently had that they will need a little more time before they are ready for prime time here on the blog.

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Now it’s time to water the white Petunias. Join me for a walk around the yard.

A summer evening in the backyard. The thunder rumbled in the background, and a few rain sprinkles fell, but this storm missed us…

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