Flower lovers try to fill every free area with plants, both indoors and in home gardens. Landscaping of space not only ennobles the interior, but also cleans the air, gives the atmosphere freshness and aroma. Wooden flowerpots with plants placed in them look organically and naturally in the interior.
Advantages and disadvantages of wooden pots
If you are in front of a choice of what material to buy a cache-pot from, it is better to give preference to wooden products. The main advantage is that it is an environmentally friendly and natural product. Wood is easily processed using a small number of tools. This material allows using a jigsaw and a hammer to give the product any shape and size. With minimal dexterity and resourcefulness, a wooden planter can be made by a person who has nothing to do with carpentry. There is no need to purchase expensive material and complex devices.
The disadvantages include such a property as hygroscopicity. Contacting with moisture, wooden products are able to rot and deform. Therefore, it is necessary to additionally treat wooden planters with moisture-proofing agents.
Variety of flower pots
Due to the variety of shapes and sizes, you can place wooden flowerpots anywhere. Products are desktop, hanging, floor and wall. Massive flowerpots are located on the floor and are intended for the maintenance of decorative trees, palm trees, ficuses. Planters attached to the wall, as well as hanging pots are intended for plants in which the stems twist and beautifully fall down. The main criterion for such flower pots is their lightness. Therefore, hanging pots are small in size, and plants such as ivy, petunia, begonia, fuchsia and others can be grown in them. Wooden flower pots woven from willow twigs look elegant. Mostly small flowers and plants are planted in table pots, the main thing is that the planter is stable and does not fall over. Place them on window sills, bedside tables, tables, dressers.
The variety of shapes of flower pots is striking in its infinity. Manufacturers offer flower pots in the form of animal figures, barrels, carts, stumps, fairy-tale heroes and many other original ideas.
DIY pot
The easiest way to make wooden planters with your own hands is to use a stump or a deck. This product will be a great decoration on a personal plot. For work, prepare a log of the required size, focusing on the plant, which will subsequently grow in the fabricated structure. Keep in mind that the recess must be wider than the container that you place in it. The root system needs free space for development. Your task is to destroy and remove the core of the stump. To do this, take a drill with a large and long drill and make holes in the upper part of the workpiece. Then gradually remove the middle with a chisel, starting from the center expanding and deepening the recess of the required diameter.
A flower pot made of wood is important in creating style. This is not just an accessory, it is a full-fledged item in the interior that ennobles, decorates and creates a favorable mood both in the room and in the adjacent area.