Gardening | How To Choose The Right Planter For Your Home Environment

As people's living conditions continue to improve, home gardening has become popular. People who like to keep flowers and plants want their potted plants to flourish and bloom. In fact, in addition to watering, fertiliser and light, a handy container is essential for treating plants. For indoor plants, flower pots are just like our choice of house, we need not only external beauty, but also internal comfort. The market is full of pots, each with its own characteristics, so how should we choose a pot? Today, the home page fungus will introduce you to several different materials of flower pots, we will summarise their advantages and disadvantages, and hope to give all gardening enthusiasts some valuable reference content.

1. Plastic pots
Plastic flower pots because of the light weight, shape, colour variety, price is not high, and suitable for industrial large-scale production line, so in today's market occupies a large share.
Plastic flower pots inside and outside the basin wall is clean, beautiful shape, wide range of applications. Not only is it easy to change pots when knocking soil, but also easy to wash and disinfect. However, its disadvantage is not air permeability, and easy to aging (open-air environment of about 1-2 years life), aging more easily broken. Therefore, it is more suitable for planting flowers and trees that are resistant to water and humidity, or those that are more temperature-loving. In some vegetables or flowers seedlings nursery period, plastic flower pots because of the advantages of lightweight and convenient is also often used.
Currently on the market there is a plastic flower pots, basin walls, basin bottom and surrounded by fine holes, 20-35 cm calibre of a variety of specifications, can also be used to plant flowers. Basin wall porous, although easy to leak out of the mud and water, but can be lined with a circle of plastic sand net in the inner wall of the basin, can reduce leakage, can still breathe. If you are worried about the walls of the pot bursting from the weight of the soil when planting, you can use sawdust instead of soil to plant flowers and trees, which makes it an ideal pot for keeping flowers on the balcony.

Suitable Plants: Arid umbrella grass, turtleback bamboo, calla lily, Guangdong wannianqing, ferns, hanging orchids, purple duckweed, winter coral, night lilac, etc.

2. Ceramic flower pots
Ceramic flower pots have a long history of use and are commonly found in home planting.
Ceramic flower pots are made from a variety of clays, which are then heated and smelted at high temperatures. The moulding process is mainly divided into hand-formed and mechanical moulding two kinds. Hand moulding applies hand-pulled billet and sculpture techniques, with deep artistic expression, each piece is unique. Mechanical moulding is highly productive, affordable and very accessible.
Compared with other materials, ceramic flower pots are more beautiful and elegant in appearance, suitable for living room, apartment, outdoor, courtyard furnishings. Its breakage rate than glass, plastic materials, etc. are relatively low, the pot is light-resistant, does not fade, not deformed, water retention is also very good. But it means that ceramic pots drainage and air permeability effect is relatively weak, suitable for growing water-resistant potted plants, such as bamboo plants. For flowers that avoid moisture should be carefully selected. Nowadays, many large-size ceramic pots are mostly used as sets of pots, and there is no hole underneath, only purely decorative function, but many shops also provide free opening service.

Suitable plants: bamboo, narcissus, hydroponic hyacinth, etc.