The plastic plant pot is the gardener's equivalent to the shopper's plastic carrier bag: we know we use too many of them - some 500 million each year in the UK - but they’re really cheap and ...

Luckily, there are tons of DIY planter hacks that turn plain old vessels into stunning plant abodes ... of a cheap plastic container. By covering the exterior of the pot in decorative pebbles ...

The natural containers that spring to mind are plant pots — from the cheap and practical round, plastic tubs with holes in the bottom to highly decorative plaster, concrete, or terracotta planters.