Cast stone planters in sizes that actually work outdoors, which usually means larger than what a garden center stocks. Large garden planters hold enough soil to keep a specimen tree or a full seasonal display alive through an Alabama summer, and they carry enough visual weight to balance a real entry or a pool surround.

Cast stone and concrete garden planters share a family resemblance, but cast stone is finished to a finer surface and takes patina more gracefully as it ages. Both are heavy by design, which is the point on a windy terrace or beside a drive.

Buy in pairs when a planter is flanking something: a door, a gate, a set of steps. A single planter beside a symmetrical entry reads as an accident rather than a decision. Everything here ships by freight.