Save water and floorspace while adding some green to your room: the Sky Planter
During a backpacking trip to Italy, I watched a fellow backpacker being chastised by our Italian hostess. Said backpacker had picked some lovely flowers and handed them to our hostess as a gift–upside-down, which is a huge no-no as it’s considered bad luck.
Hopefully they’d be a little more tolerant with upside-down potted plants. The Boskke Sky Planter is an inverted pot-and-plant combo, with a special internal reservoir system integrated into the pot that gets water to the roots without leaking. The unique design means you only have to water the plant every 20-30 days, with the end result being that it uses 80% less water!
In addition to the water conservation angle, the Sky Planter has an obvious home-decorating benefit–it takes up less floorspace, and is one less thing for the vacuum or Roomba to bump into. Not to mention you don’t have to worry about Fido rummaging through it, unless he’s got incredible leaping skills and/or you have an extremely low ceiling.
The pot measures 12 centimeters in diameter, meaning it’s large enough to use for replanting a fully-grown plant. And if you want to use smaller plants, it makes a fantastic way to grow herbs right above your kitchen sink.
The Sky Planter was designed by New Zealander Patrick Morris while he was a student at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art & Design, and has won a UK New Designers award. It can be purchased here.
This looks cool, but I see myself walking into this headfirst all the time!