Best plant pots for indoors: choose from concrete, glazed or hanging planters to transform a corner of your home
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Plant pots strike a happy medium between interiors splurge and practical buy.
Whether you fill them with trailing greenery, letterbox flower deliveries or you’re sticking with faux for the foreseeable, planters are an easy way to add character to any empty shelf or neglected corner of your home.
Clustered in twos and threes, marble and glazed planters can create a quick-fix focal point.
Play with heights and sizes to add variety, or place in corners to soften the edges of a room.
Bringing plants and interesting, good-looking planters into your home “shows the care that you have for the space that you live in”, said interior designer Daniel Hopwood during a recent tour of his own London apartment.
Online home renovation and design platform Houzz saw a 77 per cent increase in searches for “garden planters” in the period from March to May compared to the same time last year.
“Planter” searches have risen by 57 per cent, says Houzz, while “house plants” and “plant pot” have featured in the most popular searches so far this year but didn’t in the first half of last year.
So perhaps in lockdown you finally splashed out on that Big Ken palm you’ve been coveting, only to leave yourself short of time – and funds – to find your dream grey concrete planter.
Whether you’re trying to find a stylish planter before your bulk house plant order arrives, or you’re slowly building a collection that will be the envy of social-distancing visitors, we’ve put together our top plant pot picks for sale in our gallery above.