Indoor plants are a wonderful addition to the interior. They delight the eye with abundant flowering and juicy foliage, and also benefit by enriching the air with oxygen. Today, there are a lot of containers for growing indoor plants, and made of a variety of materials - concrete, plastic, wood, etc. Especially popular are clay pots for flowers.
Advantages and disadvantages
Clay as a material for making dishes has been used for more than one millennium. From its advantages it is possible to allocate:
- Naturalness, ecological purity. The walls of such a porous material do not prevent the evaporation of excessive moisture and saturation of plant roots with oxygen. Often, for pots of clay for flowers give gypsum analogues, not possessing such a set of useful qualities. They can be distinguished by the sound they produce: a gypsum pot, when struck, responds with a deafening sound compared to a clay fellow.
- Containers made from chopped clay can have a variety of colors and shapes.
Beautiful clay pots for flowers are obtained from keramoplastics or terracast. The composition of this material includes a mixture of clay and plastic, which gives it great strength and aesthetic appeal.
But what are their drawbacks :
- They have considerable weight and fragility.
- Over time, their surface may form a plaque, which adversely affects the appearance of the product. Cheap and substandard products in general can lose color and begin to self-destruct.
- They can not be called frost-resistant, so if you plan to use them for garden gardening, you need to ensure a good flow of water. Today you can not only buy a clay pot for flowers, but also make it yourself, all the necessary material and tools can be purchased at the construction shop or in the creative goods department.
