Wooden flower pots: features, design and tips for choosing

A modern person, surrounded on all sides by synthetics, creating home comfort, increasingly pays attention to objects made from natural materials. The most natural in the perception of people is a tree - one of the foundations of life on Earth. The aroma, color and texture of wood has a calming effect on the nervous system of a person tired of the modern rhythm of life, and a tree in combination with indoor flowers or plants in summer cottages helps to create a comfortable relaxation area.

There are many different wood materials suitable for making flower pots, and a flight of imagination and skillful hands will help to create unique products that will complement or decorate a flower arrangement.

Sometimes people refuse wooden flowerpots because of their fragility, because the walls of the pot rot and deform from constant contact with moisture.

Wood pots are of three types:

• hollowed out;
• prefabricated;
• wicker

Hollowed out flowerpots are made from a single piece of wood, be it a stump or driftwood, with a suitable volume for making a container. The core of the piece of wood is selected, leaving the walls of sufficient thickness. From the inside, the pot is treated with moisture protective agents and either lined with plastic wrap, on which a layer of drainage and soil is poured, or another pot of plants is inserted.

The appearance of these pots depends on the source material and can often have strange shapes, ensuring the uniqueness of the resulting products. Beautiful, unusual flowerpots, besides natural hygroscopicity, have one small drawback: air will be difficult to reach the roots of the planted plants, since hollowed-out pots do not "breathe".

Flower pots can be made not only from a single piece of wood, but also they are made from blocks, slats or planks... Square, rectangular, in the form of a barrel or tub, prefabricated vases of all shapes and sizes are suitable for flowers or trees. You can use such pots in the interior of an apartment or to decorate a personal plot.

Hanging pots of a semicircular shape, woven from branches or flexible roots, look original, in which various climbing plants look beautiful. Orchids will also feel good in wicker table baskets, for whose roots easy access to air is very important.

Eco-friendly, simple and inexpensive to manufacture, flowerpots need constant care to protect them from moisture and fungus and mold.

• If the soil for the plants comes into direct contact with untreated wood, the container will quickly swell with moisture and the wood will deteriorate. To avoid the negative effects of the soil and the root system of plants, the inner surface of the pots is treated with special water-repellent impregnations or other pots are used that are inserted inside the wooden one.
• To protect the tree from fungal infections, the surface is treated with preparations containing copper sulfate. The action of this mineral kills the fungus and destroys the lesions. It can also be treated with linseed oil or machine oil.

• If a wooden planter is used again, then it must be cleaned of the remains of the previous plant and treated with an infusion of wood ash or other alkali. Such a procedure will save a new flower from infection.
• It is also important to ensure that the bottom of the wooden pot comes into contact with moisture as little as possible, and also that the water does not stagnate inside the flowerpot. To protect the lower part from constant contact with water, the pot is placed on "legs", raising it above the surface. This is especially true for compound or wicker pots.
• For hollowed-out pots and tightly assembled compound flowerpots, it is important to ensure the drain of excess moisture, and for this it is necessary to make at least one large drainage hole.

When choosing a suitable flower pot, you should pay attention to:

• how its texture fits into the overall style;
• how much the texture and color of the wood matches the overall color scheme of the room;
• whether a single plant will grow in a flower pot or a mini-flower bed will be located there;
• whether the chosen flowerpot corresponds to the plant that will live in it.

For example, for succulents and cacti with fibrous roots, low containers are suitable so that the root system takes up a larger volume of soil, leaving 1–2 cm free for better plant development. And if the cactus has a taproot, the pot should be deep to protect the root from decay. In this case, the shape of the pot does not matter, it all depends on the preference of the owner. Often, succulents are planted in a common container, creating various compositions.

Indoor gardens or "port-e-fleur" are now in vogue - these are several different types of plants planted in a common wooden container. Or rutary is a newfangled concept in phytodesign, derived from the English word root, which means "root". For its manufacture, roots, vines and tree branches are used, which make up compositions with living plants, where a hollowed-out log serves as a planting container. The zest of such compositions is the planting capacity, since there are no snags of the same shape in the world.

Any plant can be planted in a wooden pot, since there are no restrictions on use.

You will learn how to make a wooden planter with your own hands from the video below.