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Nowadays, demanding schedules often occupy people so that he/she has no time for other things like watering the plants. As a result, the busier you become, the sooner your plants die. But the ‘Breathing Pot’ from Jae-Han Song seems like a clever solution to that problem. It simulates breathing, expanding and contracting all the time…until the water runs out. So when you find the pot stop ‘breathing’, it’s time to water the plant. Easy as that! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Simpler but practical designs are always popular and today we’ll show you another ‘we should have thought of that before’ product. It is the ‘Keep2Green’ pot by Paul Gribincea. The concept about it is quite simple: the system makes a full use of the space and water by planting some grass beneath the hanging pot. So you’ve gotten that? Good. Mainly made from metal, ‘Keep2Green’ is heavy enough to withstand moderate winds and holds the flower pot steadily in the air. [Read the rest of this entry...]

So how do you like the ‘fragile’ flowerpot which easily breaks up into two parts? If you’re someone who ever experienced heartbreak resulted from losing your precious flower due to the incorrect re-potting, you may feel excited about the idea. Yes, it’s a detachable flowerpot that allows you to properly transfer the plant from one pot to another without hurting its root. Just separate the two parts of the pot, and then you can easily move the potted plant. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The fish need no extra feeding and the flower needs no extra watering, and that’s the main feature of the ‘Fish Tank & Flower Pot’, or you could also call it as the ‘Flower Pot& Fish Tank’ (the two names have no evident difference though). Whatever, it is really an eco-friendly product, as it in fact simulates a small-sized ecosystem by connecting the tank with the pot via a pipeline. [Read the rest of this entry...]

In my opinion, there’s no pot on earth more eco-friendly or nutritious than average soil, oh wait, it is rightly where the plants are originally belongs. And that’s why I really intrigued by Strata Flower Pot. It is no different with normal flower pots except that it still supports the flower even when the flower is planted in the soil. That means, you can smash the Strata Flower Pot and bury it into the soil to supply the plants with needed elements. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Do you know how old your plant is? You may have a good knowledge of your flower’s habits and characteristics, but seldom its age. So just leave that to the innovative flowerpot built with a LED screen, on which several irregular rings are shown to indicate the age of your plant. So next time, ask the LED flowerpot and it will tell how old your plant is. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Though producers, sellers, users have been encouraged to recycle the packaging materials and containers of the product, white pollution is still a big problem to handle. In that case, what should we do to deal with big amounts of plastic bottles all over the world? It’s time to find new ways to it. Yun Hwan Sung has recently come up with the “Seeds in the Bottle” to surprise us. With seeds stored inside it, you can release them into the bottle, invert the bottle and put into it some necessary fertilizers to change the bottle into a flower pot. What a simple but really green idea!

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Fancy that your flowers are rotating regularly in the sunshine for a better growth while you’re still up to your own work. But what can make that come true? The answer is the rotary hanger for plant baskets. Solar-powered, the plant carousel can rotate 360 degrees every half day to ensure your plants a full exposure to sunshine. The hanger can hold up to 27 lbs.

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This flower pot is made of light, durable and green polypropylene material. To get a simple flower pot, you only need to follow the instruments on the board and to collapse it. It could not only reduce the costs of transportation and storage, but also increase the reusability after scrubs.

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Made by recycled materials, green planter wall tiles give new meaning to the decor. This’s an neat and nice design idea launched at the Milan Furniture Fair 2009 by Maruja Fuentes. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This is a beautiful design to help you save natural resource. It has two separated parts, one could monitor and even analyze all the natural resource consumption in your house, including heating, cooling, water and electricity, accordingly suggest the projected future use; the other one is a flowerpot which indicates whether you have reach the object. Only when the energy usage is lower than objected, will the flower blossom. [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you love flowers but always forget about watering, you should have a pot like this. With an extra glass outer pot, you could just fill water between the glass and the terra cotta. Since terra cotta is porous, the plant could absorb moisture through the terra cotta pot. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This round-bottom plant pot has a weird function which is asking for water. With the built-in water monitor and a balancing system, this pot could detect the humidity level of the soil based on the pre-setting. When the plant is short of water, the pot is start to tilt, just like beg you for water. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This pair of pots looks like twins. With the built-in magnet, they could be attached on the window at the same time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This flowerpot could suck water from the laver underneath. [Read the rest of this entry...]