You may want to mix it up a bit...all 90° angled edges may end up looking like a carpark with plants...and a lot of plants really don't look great in square pots...but hey you pay the money, make your choice. I think their Amsterdam range looks great no matter where.
Take a look at Apta.co.uk There's a range named Granito. Similar pricing to your preferred brand, but they do a range of other styles too. A dark slate-like grey too which can look quite contemporary too.
Shame you feel that Fibre clay would not transport well. They are a great half-way house of looking like clay pots, but more lighter. Agree with Fairygirl, they can break down sometimes, but if you are not moving containers around, they should be able to last.
Really like the look of the Granito and price but it's fibreclay again. It's so easy to chip, and although we are not going to be moving them, I am clumsy and likely to drop a power tool on them.
As you want square, perhaps you could build big planters from preserved timber and paint them the colours of your choice. Line with plastic to improve durability.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
We thought about building planters from some of the off cuts from the slabs (I'm sure there is a better word than slabs from £6k of stone tiles but they cover the ground so they are slabs to me), but decided it would be too much of the same thing.
We do have an area that is surrounded with oak sleepers, so thought of using more of them, but they are too big. We've about 8 plants that we want to keep, in various locations around the garden, so there are not all together, so sleepers seem wrong.
I feel wrong for thinking the price of plastic pots is too much. Compared to the overall garden price (and the other building work going on) it's not much... but it just seems too much on plastic.
I guess paying the plastic price will give the durability and look we want.
Oh, the car park comment has really rung bells... I'm thinking maybe tapered pots now.
I would bite the bullet and go for the Capi Urban pots. You obviously like them best after looking at all the pots available. In the past I have sometimes gone for a 'cheaper' alternative for something and regretted it later. Get them and enjoy your garden!
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@craigrachel777 - just take your time before deciding It's all very well us giving our tuppence worth, but it's your garden, and therefore your choice. As several of us have said, if you like those pots, and you have the money to invest, then do it. Perhaps you could get one or two, plant them up, and see what you think then. If it looks too stark and minimalist, you can address that, and you haven't forked out for loads of them. Bear in mind that we're coming to the time of year when gardening products can be in sales, so you might get a little bit of a bargain too, if you're lucky
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Shame you feel that Fibre clay would not transport well. They are a great half-way house of looking like clay pots, but more lighter. Agree with Fairygirl, they can break down sometimes, but if you are not moving containers around, they should be able to last.
We do have an area that is surrounded with oak sleepers, so thought of using more of them, but they are too big. We've about 8 plants that we want to keep, in various locations around the garden, so there are not all together, so sleepers seem wrong.
I feel wrong for thinking the price of plastic pots is too much. Compared to the overall garden price (and the other building work going on) it's not much... but it just seems too much on plastic.
I guess paying the plastic price will give the durability and look we want.
Oh, the car park comment has really rung bells... I'm thinking maybe tapered pots now.
You obviously like them best after looking at all the pots available.
In the past I have sometimes gone for a 'cheaper' alternative for something and regretted it later.
Get them and enjoy your garden!
It's all very well us giving our tuppence worth, but it's your garden, and therefore your choice. As several of us have said, if you like those pots, and you have the money to invest, then do it.
Perhaps you could get one or two, plant them up, and see what you think then. If it looks too stark and minimalist, you can address that, and you haven't forked out for loads of them. Bear in mind that we're coming to the time of year when gardening products can be in sales, so you might get a little bit of a bargain too, if you're lucky
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...