Greenville Self Watering Plant Pot

The Greenville is a long, low self watering trough made from recycled plastic, designed to hold plants in the grower pots they came in. An integrated reservoir sits beneath the plant and feeds moisture up as it is needed, so watering becomes a weekly job instead of a daily one. It comes in two lengths, 490mm and 690mm, in black, concrete, green and white.

Why you'll love it

• The reservoir does the routine watering. You fill the base rather than the surface and the mix draws on it steadily, which suits herbs and leafy plants that sulk the moment they dry out.
• No repotting required. Drop the plant in still in its plastic grower pot. Swapping a tired herb for a fresh one takes seconds and nothing gets disturbed.
• Light to lift, even planted. Plastic construction keeps a 690mm trough manageable on a windowsill or a bench where weight is a real constraint.
• Made responsibly. Produced in Holland from recycled materials using 100 percent wind energy.

Sizes and what fits in them

Both sizes share the same width and height. The difference is length, and the measurements are the overall product.

• 490mm long, 19.8cm wide, 18cm high. A kitchen herb trough, or two foliage plants side by side on a bench.
• 690mm long, 19.5cm wide, 18.5cm high. A fuller run of herbs, flowering colour along a windowsill, or leafy indoor plants grouped in a line.

Both are built around grower pots of roughly 200mm, and the longer size gives you more of them in a row.

Material, weathering and drainage

Material. Recycled plastic in a smooth, seamless rectangular form with clean lines and neutral tones. Wipe it clean with a damp cloth or rinse it out.

Outdoors. Rated for indoor use and for protected outdoor areas such as covered balconies and courtyards. It is not meant to sit unsheltered, where rain would fill the reservoir for you and defeat the point of it.

Drainage. Drainage holes are included alongside the reservoir, so water has somewhere to go rather than sitting stagnant. No saucer is supplied, and no liner is needed because the reservoir is part of the planter.

What to expect when it arrives

The planter is dispatched empty and boxed. Plants and potting mix are separate. Setting up the 490mm size takes a minute: fill the reservoir, lower the grower pots in, done. Delivered Australia wide, with delivery from $29.95.

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