Build Your Own: Concrete Pot Planters

Concrete pots / Photo: bioproduct.ro

Not always find in stores as flower pots, color or size you want. Flowerpot not only has practical value. He is not a simple dish – a support for plants, it can be constructed so as to pull out your best traits of plants. Think copaceii bonsai: how would sit them in a plastic conical flask? Or in a yogurt? In the art of bonsai, the vessel support has a role as important as the plant itself, and the Japanese artisans led almost perfect pot design.

Not Japanese and without the pretensions of artists, we can and we play with these dishes. I know you will not contradict me if I say that producers lack of imagination. Most plastic pots are white or colored green or brown. It is true, and others have appeared more cheerful, just as they are either very expensive or fragile.

I needed a pot to decorate an outdoor stage, into the house. The ship had to be small to be hard not to be knocked down by wind and strong enough not to become a target for the dog romp through the garden.

I’d probably have found such a vessel, after a trek through the shops. To me, it was more convenient to build one, that exact model for the space. And that sums up all these features material better than concrete?

The recipe was simple. The mold was tepid on the spot in a plastic box and a PET bottle. For the filling I used part cement, two parts sand and two parts gravel small. The concrete was reinforced with wire. Pour After I left to dry two days to be sure it will not crack when I removed the mold. Last transaction involving drill, which I did for water leakage.

The vessel could then be painted without problems, I chose to leave it natural to contrast with the scarlet flowers of kalanchoe.

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