Ivyline Artstone 102155 Pot 43x39cm- Claire Grey

Absolutely love this pot. No need to worry about root rot anymore with its clever design. It has an inch gap at the bottom with optional drainage plug. In case you over water your beloved plants. Plus if you want to you can let it drink from the bottom up when you do. It feels like concrete, not plastic cheap rubbish. Looks great and for the price you can't possibly say no. It comes in many sizes and colours so if you often buy pots you can keep a theme going.The best thing is the over watering idea. No more root rot.It's not terracotta or clay, but sure is sturdy. It's holding my 70cm slender cactus cutting just fine and I know I can't over water it. Hobby getting easier. Found the right pot. Finally!!Ps excuse the mess, was eager to get a picture on here. A week has passed and I've now watered the cactus. Drained well. When I the pot gets wet it looks like it could be clay. Nice. Love the sandstone material it's made from. Noticed they go up to like a 47cm pot too. Ceramics or terracotta of this size are well expensive but this modern technology a fraction of that cost. I couldn't be more happy with this plant pot / company.

Huge craft on the side. Product utter useless. Came in a huge 3.5' x 3' x 3' box. Returning this is very burdensome for me and serves absolutely not purpose. I can take a picture of the broken item and that should be sufficient. I am not wasting 1.5 hours of my life returning this item. Instead I am forced to waste £29.99 of my bank account. Home delivery does not always work. However, how the problem is solved is up to the seller. I hope they have a better solution than box up a useless item and then we will give you a replacement.

I use several of these for conservatory plants. They look and feel ceramic but with the lightness and resilience of a plastic/stone composite. They do not need an inner pot, as some have suggested. There is a clever insert above the base with small slots that let the water, but not the compost, through. This forms a reservoir of water like a pot saucer might. This has a rubber bung that I remove to prevent accidental water logging. This way, the reservoir fills to the top but then drains. If you water too much you will need a tray to catch the overflow if you have removed the bung. The insert can be removed from an empty pot for cleaning. I hold the empty pot upside down and drop it gently onto a hard surface and his usually dislodges a reluctant insert. Sounds complex, perhaps, but easy in practice. I will buy more.

I love all ivyline artstone products! They look great and my plants are thriving!

First off, if, like me, you've been looking at the other colours in this range and are wondering if only the white pot has the drainage/reservoir + plug system because that's the only one that details this feature, then I can confirm that this (and the black ones) also have it (at least on the 17x15cm pots I bought).Quality is good, the plastic/artstone feels thicker than I imagined and the pot is a bit heavier than I thought from reading others' reviews, but yeah, it's not going to take an excessively long and weighty plant/tree and you'll need an actual stone pot, probably. I've got 30cm tall Peace Lilies in mine and they're fine. They match my man pad's dark wood and natural colour scheme's interior. My only very slight criticism is that they somehow don't look quite as authentically stone like as hoped, but it's hardly noticeable really. Are they worth £5 when you can go buy a thin plastic pot from a local store? I'd say this doesn't look or feel like it's going to crack unless you try really hard, or pot it with a 4' designer/decorative tree in it. The plug to make this into an outdoor pot (or for extra drainage is made of soft-ish rubber, so it feel like it has a fairly good seal, although one of the two I bought (in black) has leaked a tiny bit, so be careful with this.