Hanging Planter

8 Nov, 2009 in art pottery by admin

Hanging Planter

5 Major Benefits of Planters Including Metal Wall Planters

Planters are perfect! You can use them as decor either indoors or outdoors. Planters provide an excellent way to spruce up various areas in your home, such as the walls inside your home, or your patio outdoors. However, you may be uncertain about why you should select planters over other types of decor. Here are some of the main benefits of planters, including wall planters:

1. Planters are attractive

Planters can spruce up various areas in your home. For instance, adding one or two planters on the walls of your home can make the wall and the room more attractive. Use wall planters to create a focal point in the room. You can also use them as accents, to complement other decor on or off the walls. While the original planters are for plants, you can enjoy wall planters for the beauty of the containers themselves!

2. Planters can be used with or without plants

By definition, the original purpose of planters was to hold plants. Wall planters differ somewhat, as their main purpose is as decoration. However, you can also add either real or faux flowers or foliage to them, in order to enhance the planters further. Still, wall planters, such as metal wall planters, can also function well without the plants. The color and style of the planters can liven up any room!

3. Planters can be used indoor and outdoors

You can add wall planters to both the interior and exterior walls of your home. Adding them to the interior of your home can help to bring dull walls and rooms to life. You could also add them to your decks and garden areas, to create the same effect. The versatility of wall planters makes them the perfect wall decor.

4. Planters are sturdy

Manufacturers produce planters, such as wall planters, using a variety of sturdy materials. Metal and wood are typically the most common ones. One of the main benefits of using such sturdy materials is that you can hang the planters both indoors and outdoors. This can be a welcome benefit whether you want to liven up a particular room in your home, or create the same effect for your deck, patio, garden, etc. In these tough economic times, we are looking for value more than ever. Fortunately, wall planters are built to last--and last, and last.

5. Planters are available online

Making our lives more convenient, metal wall planters are available online. With our day-to-day lives becoming increasingly hectic, this is a welcome benefit. We can avoid waiting in traffic, waiting in line, and waiting for stores to open. Internet shopping makes finding wall decor easier than ever. With a few clicks of the mouse, we can easily browse and select the wall planters that best meet our needs!

If you need to spice up areas on the interior or exterior of your house, then consider wall art decor, such as metal wall planters. While you can use them without plants, never plan your decor without them!

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How best should I start to root geraniums from cuttings?

I think I've done this years ago, but can't really remember. I've purchased a hanging planter with geraniums in it at a good price. I wanted the planter for something else. I've removed the geraniums, three plants, from the planter. Now, I want to try to either "save" the geranium plants seperately or make cuttings and start to root them.

The 3 plants roots are all tangled together, making the plants, who are not in good condition, impossible to separate without tearing the roots. The roots were already rootbound in the pot. Can I tear the plants apart and replant them separately cutting them back to new growth? Should I try to just take cuttings and root them in water? Can I do both?

How do you best start the cuttings in water?

Thanks for your help

You can easily do both. Take the "green" tender ends of the plants. Strip all but 2 or 3 of the leaves and place in small-necked containers with water. I use a sprig of thyme in mine with the cuttings, for some reason, things seem to root better. Place in a sunny window and keep an eye on the water level as it evaporates quickly. You will see a root system within days if the weather is warm. Not all will make it, but many will. When yo have a good root system, carefully transplant to small containers until they begin to grow well. Then yo may move them to another, larger container.
Then, when you have taken all of the cuttings you need, cut back the geranium to about 3 to 4 inches and find the base of the plants and take a sharp trowel to cut through the root ball to separate the three plants, taking as much roots per plant as you can. Place the individuals in containers with new soil and fresh organic matter, water in well and give them ample sunlight and moisture until they take off! I have found that organic fertilizers can be a bit more odoriferous, but seem to work much better for me. Container plants require more water and fertilizer than garden-bed plants, so water carefully and fertilize every few weeks as the flowers begin to form.

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