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Eco friendly outdoor pots

BrumrunnerBrumrunner Posts: 4
in Garden design
Does anyone have any recommendations for eco friendly outdoor pots?: I've had a significant attrition rate with pots cracking and falling apart this winter, so need to go shopping, but would like to be able to buy pots that are, if possible, manufactured as ecologically friendly as possible.

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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I have used coir pots but useful for one or two season at the most. Not for really large pots. I think that anything ecologically friendly would return to the earth quickly.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    If they're going to be used for years and years, maybe recycled plastic is the right option this time.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    There is a company online which sells recycled plastic pots - I'm afraid I can't remember the name of the supplier but that may be an answer :)
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    edited February 2023
    Elho now produce recycled plastic pots, I saw some yesterday at a local garden centre:

     elho flowerpots and planters
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • SueAtooSueAtoo Posts: 380
    Frost Proof terracotta, not the cheap ones.
    East Dorset, new (to me) rather neglected garden.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited February 2023
    SueAtoo said:
    Frost Proof terracotta, not the cheap ones.
    Even those rated frost resistant are not good enough.  I have some Cretan pots, a pale greyish terracotta, expensive but they pay for themselves in the long run.

    Whichford and Yorkshire are good English manufacturers. 

    To save money, and be even more eco, look out for second hand pots that look as though they have survived several seasons.


     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    edited February 2023
    I'd go for frost proof terracotta as well. If they last for years that's as good as you're going to get. You can get ones made in this country which cuts down on transportation costs.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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