Plant Pots for garden..chrome?

sunshine6650

Does anybody know cheapest palce to get largish plant pots..chrome silver ones if poss..we are going to attack the garden in next few weeks & i want rid of the borders & just have pots..quite modern looking..& as little work as poss!!!!

Isis_Black

from what i have heard these chrome metal pots arent good for the plants as they conduct the heat and cook the roots!!!

you could get some plastic or terracotta pots and spray the outside silver!

olly300

sunshine6650 wrote: »

Does anybody know cheapest palce to get largish plant pots..chrome silver ones if poss..we are going to attack the garden in next few weeks & i want rid of the borders & just have pots..quite modern looking..& as little work as poss!!!!

The only place I've found cheap silver coloured metal ones is Homebase in winter around January/February. They are not chrome though.

Pots need lots of watering particularly if the weather is hot. There as with borders plant roots can grow deeper so you don't need to water them as much.

If you can put some sort of self watering irrigation device in them like these:
http://www.twowests.co.uk/TwoWestsSite/product/PSV.htm
http://reviews.ebay.co.uk/Automatic-Watering-for-Pot-Plants-amp-Hanging-Baskets_W0QQugidZ10000000005954474
http://sundries.thompson-morgan.com/product/kww2034
http://www.ferndale-lodge.co.uk/pd_576881.htm?utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=froogle

That way you won't have to water them everyday or twice a day, and you can go on holiday without worrying that your plants will die.

space_rider

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http://www.twowests.co.uk/TwoWestsSite/product/PSV.htm
http://reviews.ebay.co.uk/Automatic-Watering-for-Pot-Plants-amp-Hanging-Baskets_W0QQugidZ10000000005954474
http://sundries.thompson-morgan.com/product/kww2034
http://www.ferndale-lodge.co.uk/pd_576881.htm?utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=froogle

That way you won't have to water them everyday or twice a day, and you can go on holiday without worrying that your plants will die.[/quote]

Can you use the thompson morgan one in containers already planted?

olly300

space_rider wrote: »

Can you use the thompson morgan one in containers already planted?

Yes. You just stick them in the soil like self-watering plant spikes.

The water spikes or water wizards you can get much much more cheaply from Wilkinsons. The Wilkinsons ones don't seem to fit plastic bottles as well as the more expensive ones.

alanobrien

The homebase pots and troughs were / are galvanised steel.
With all these types of pots i recommend lining them with anti weed mat or similar, this reduces the heat conduction and stops the roots from frying. Been doing this for years and never had a problem with plants in metal containers.

afro_2

ikea has loads of different sized metal buckets

space_rider

alanobrien wrote: »

The homebase pots and troughs were / are galvanised steel.
With all these types of pots i recommend lining them with anti weed mat or similar, this reduces the heat conduction and stops the roots from frying. Been doing this for years and never had a problem with plants in metal containers.

Yikes, I`ve bought several of these. The shrubs are in full sun too. I`ll have to keep an eye on them.