Creating interior, there is a wish to give it completeness that everything was harmonious, beginning from design of walls and furniture to the last flowerpot. But to choose pot according to interior – half has put. Important also to decide on material of this subject in which your green friends will grow and blossom to you on joy.
If it is possible to pick up flowerpot of the necessary design now – their variety, then here about merits and demerits of material of which these home decoration is usually made is so high, it is necessary to learn in more detail. Then it will be simpler to decide on the choice. Besides, different plants will feel differently in pots from clay or from plastic, and it needs also to be considered.
Clay pot
The undoubted advantage of clay pot is its "naturalness" and porosity. Time of clay allows the soil "to breathe" and consequently, to roots of plant more oxygen and moisture from such pot will get will quicker evaporate, so, the soil will not be excessively crude. It is especially relevant for such whimsical plants as uzumbarsky violet, palm tree, some species of cacti, rhododendron.
If plants which you intend to lodge in the house possess heavy leaves and flowers, the steady pot is necessary for them. Heavy clay in this case will be more preferable than light plastic. But the ability to intensively evaporate moisture will turn back minus for thermophilic plants: walls of pot will be cool, so, the soil and the root system of flower will begin to be cooled. For the types preferring the damp soil, clay "dwelling" will also not approach: even intensive watering will not compensate lack of moisture of the soil. One more minus of clay pot is its high cost in comparison with the plastic fellow.
Plastic pot
Low cost – not the only advantage of plastic flowerpot. In comparison with clay, it keeps the exterior longer: minerals from the soil gradually get into clay that creates on it not esthetic white raid. The plastic pot is deprived of this shortcoming. It is easier to look after plastic, it is less fragile. Through plastic walls moisture does not evaporate, so, plants can be watered less often. Besides, in cold season the roots of the plants planted in plastic pots will be exposed less to cooling that is relevant for cool rooms. But the plastic pot has also essential shortcomings: roots of plants in it are more subject to rotting, oxygen since the soil is not saturated with air through hermetic walls can not be enough for them. Besides, low-quality plastic can emit hazardous substances to the soil that also not in the best way will affect condition of plants. To reduce influence of this factor, the new plastic pot needs to be washed up hot water with cleaning agent and to dry carefully.