Modern Plant Planters

Modern plant planters come in a large variety of shapes, sizes and colours. They are also made from a wide variety of materials including Fiberglass, concrete, bamboo, recycled wood, stainless steel and of course, clay.

Modern plant planters send the right message

Thanks to the ‘green’, ‘eco-friendly’ and ‘bio friendly’ revolution, businesses today want to be seen as earth-friendly and therefore bring indoors the Japanese garden setting. They invest in potted plants of flowering and non-flowering varieties including bonsai. They buy expensive modern plant planters that promote a friendly ambience throughout the office. Often these modern plant planters sport corporate colours and brands.

Customers are more receptive

Generally speaking, you will notice an abundance of plants in areas where customers and the public interact with the business. Plants especially flowering plants in nice, tasteful modern plant planters accentuate the area dramatically. The message is one of friendliness and goes a long way in making the customer more relaxed and therefore more receptive to any sales pitch as compared to a typically aseptic environment which is generally business-like, non-friendly and non-relaxed.

Employees more productive

Potted plants in beautiful modern plant planters not only help businesses deal more effectively with customers, it also helps the work environment in that the staffs too are in a better frame of mind to tackle the challenges of the day. A plant is like an antidote to modern work related stress. Although most corporate houses have a contract with a plant hire firm that looks after and changes the plants on a weekly basis, many businesses encourage their staff to look after the plants in their office cubicle. It helps de-stress the employee and bring back focus on the job. Aesthetically designed modern plant planters go a long way in enhancing ambience. It also helps bring in a little bit of ‘home’ into your office environment.

Enhance beauty

Modern fiberglass planters come in all shapes and sizes. So even if the home or office has a tiny ledge, there will be modern plant planters of the right size, shape and colour for that perch. All you need is some creativity in using modern plant planters to transform your living space into a beautiful landscape.

The same applies to homes. Modern plant planters can be used on patios or yard or your landscape lawn. Modern planters are durable and stylish and are made from a large variety of materials including fiberglass, steel, glass, bronze, terracotta, clay and concrete to name a few.

Modern plant planters can be placed along pathways, entry ways and alleys. They can be placed on the ground, hung or bolted to a wall. Being beautiful, you can even place a Bonsai plant in it and place the planter on your office desk.

Whenever you decide to upgrade your living space, think modern plant planters because they add elegance to nature’s beauty.

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FiberglassPlant Planters – Bringing Elegance and Functionality to the Indoor Garden

Leaves and flowers not only resonate well with humans; they also add life giving oxygen into your immediate space. Modern day interior decorators have been co-opting natural ’living’ colours into their interior designs. This is one reason why homes and offices these days have come to sport indoor flowering and non-flowering plants including Bonsai. The other reason of course is because plants add harmony, beauty, colour and a sense of well-being.

There was just one problem – the plants either came in clay pots or thin plastic pots neither of which looked elegant. Clearly, the pots needed to match the interior decor of the home or office. For a while, interior designers experimented with Chinese hand painted porcelain. Although these were elegant, they were too delicate and too expensive. Thus was born the Fiberglass plant planters bringing in elegance and functionality to the indoor garden.

The Fiberglass Plant Planters

Instead of making the pot out of clay, the pot was made out of amalgam of fiberglass, plastic and polymer resin. The advantage was that the finished product was lighter than clay, stronger than clay, could be made into any shape, size and colour, and best of all, it had a lustrous quality to it. The Fiberglass plant planter all by itself became a thing of beauty and when you add a plant into it, the indoor ambiance was greatly enhanced.

Does this mean that mud and a plant are put directly into Fiberglass plant planters? Yes and no. There are two types of Fiberglass plant planters – indoor Fiberglass plant planters and outdoor Fiberglass plant planters.

Indoor Fiberglass plant planters

For the indoor Fiberglass plant planters, the plant continues to be put in clay pots. The difference is, the clay pot in turn, was inserted into a fiberglass plant planter. This enabled the businesses to enter into contracts with plant hire companies. The plant hire businesses would hire out flowering and non-flowering plants and change them (usually) once a week. The fiberglass plant planters remained the same, the indoor decor remained the same but the plants themselves kept changing. Thus the Fiberglass plant planters brought in elegance and functionality to the indoor garden. Enterprising Fiberglass planters manufacturers even offer branding services. Thus it is not uncommon to find large corporate sporting Fiberglass plant planters with their logo proudly stencilled on it. The added advantage of branding was that it prevented theft.

Some Fiberglass planter manufacturers also offer to produce your requirement in any custom shape, size and colour you desire (provided the minimum order quantity is met). Large corporates loved the idea as it enabled them to extend their brand colours to the Fiberglass plant planters as well.

The outdoor Fiberglass plant planters

These generally lack the lustre of the indoor variety of Fiberglass plant planters and are also a bit cheaper. Generally, outdoor Fiberglass plant planters are available in various shapes including cubed, bullet, tall planters, ridged bowl planters, hanging basket planters, wall mounted baskets, trough planters, pyramid shaped planters, low bowl shaped planters, tapered round, Cuban curved, ridged eye planters, etc.

So if you are planning an indoor or outdoor garden or planning to upgrade your garden, think Fiberglass plant planters – they add beauty and elegance to your plants and your living space.

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Fertilizers for Potted Plants

Those of you who have a garden with some or plenty of potted plants might have noticed that after a while, the plants don’t seem to pick up at all. This article walks you through the steps you need to take get your potted plants back on track.

Why does the Growth of a Potted Plant Stagnate?

Irrespective of its size, a pot essentially contains a limited amount of nutrients because the quantum of soil that is available to it is limited. A smallish plant in a large pot will grow well for a while and then it too will stagnate. In any case, you can’t keep on increasing the size of the pot. So how do you encourage the plant to continue growing despite the limitations? The one answer is fertilizer.

Using Fertilizers for your Potted Plants

At the mention of fertilizer, most people think of or visualize the packaged stuff you can buy at the local gardening outlet. But that’s not the kind I’m thinking of – I’m thinking of stuff you can make in your home from wet garbage commonly found in the kitchen> I’m referring to stuff that you would ordinarily either dump into the bin or shove down the sink. I’m referring to stuff like used tea leaves or discarded lettuce leaves, apple peels, vegetable peels, and green pea pod shells, stuff like that. Just finely chop these up in blender and mix with new soil. For every mug full of soil, use quarter of the freshly chopped greens and fruit discards. Mix well. Your homemade fertilizer is now ready and can not only be used for potted plants; it can also be used for plants planted directly into the ground.

Application of homemade fertilizer

If you need to fertilize the potted plants, here’s how you can do it:

1. Loosen up the soil taking care that you loosen up only the top portion of the pot.

2. Next, empty out half the soil from the pot.

3. Next lightly loosen the soil that is touching the inner wall of the pot.

4. Hold the plant firmly and pull it out gently taking care not to shake the roots.

5. Now fill two thirds of the pot with the freshly created fertilizer.

6. Make a small well in the middle and reinsert the plant into the pot (along with a lot of the previous soil still sticking to the root).

7. Gently shake the pot a bit so the soil settles down.

8. Add half a mug of water immediately and after a few hours you can water as usual.

9. If you are curious, mark the height and circumference of the plant.

The chopped vegetables, peels and stuff that you have mixed into the soil will slowly decompose and enrich the soil. Depending on the size of the chopped vegetables, it might take anything from seven to ten days for the vegetables to decompose and be absorbed into the soil.

Assuming you have used fresh soil when making the fertilizer, the plant in any case, will once again start to grow. When the nutrients from the fertilizer hit the soil, the plant will receive a tremendous boost and grow even more rapidly. The more green stuff you put in your fertilizer, the better. Have Fun.

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Taking Care of your Potted Plants

For the avid gardener, the limitations of space are never an issue. Even if you are an apartment dweller, it is not too difficult to indulge in your hobby- use containers for plants, herbs or summer blossoms. Whether its pots, barrels, baskets or tubs, anything that will hold soil can be used to grow your garden right on your window sill or balcony. While the basics of gardening remain the same for container gardening, a little specialized knowledge goes a long way in keeping your potted plants lush and healthy. Here are a few tips on how to care for your potted plants and outdoor plant planters.

Preparing the container

Like we mentioned earlier, any container should do, provided it is able to hold soil and has a proper drainage. The most crucial issue in container gardening is the drainage. Ideally, the pot should have at least a couple of drainage holes. Before adding the potting soil to the pot, add an inch of gravel at the bottom. This helps better drainage. The next step is to add a little soil with a layer of compost. The pot may be topped off with a thin layer of soil. Ensure that you leave a little free space on the top so that the soil does not run off when you water the plant.

Watering your potted plants

How much water a plant needs depends on various factors including plant species, the size of the pot, the growth cycle, the foliage content, light, temperature and the humidity in the atmosphere. A good way to know if your potted plant needs watering is to poke a finger to get a feel of the soil. Is the soil dry? Then, it definitely needs watering. If your finger comes out wet with soggy soil, you might be over-watering your potted plant.

Fertilizer for potted plants

The soil for potted plants is limited and depletes very quickly in terms of nutrients. So you need to feed or fertilize the soil often. Most people tend to purchase inorganic fertilizers available at the local nursery. However, your potted plants will do well with some organic fertilizer or compost. You can prepare your own organic fertilizers with the help of vegetable waste from the kitchen. Contents of tea bags, coffee dregs, vegetable and fruit peels, discarded leafy greens and stems provide a wealth of nutrients when they decompose. Simply chop fine, mix with the potting soil and watch your plants thrive.

Re-potting your plants

In a pot, there is only so much space for the plant to grow. Sooner or later, the roots of the plant become packed in the confined space of the pot arresting the growth. When this happens, you will need to repot the plant. The most obvious sign for repotting is when the roots start to show up on the surface or move out through the drainage holes. If the plant gives off-shoots, they need to be separated and planted elsewhere so that there is no crowding in the pot.

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