Lechuza BALCONERA Color 50 Self Watering Planter Plastic Indoor/Outdoor Flower Plant Pot Table and Window Box with Drainage Hole H19 L50 W19 cm White

Pros: ● self watering comes very handy.● Sleek design and looks very expensive.● Two compartments.● water indicater works and it is useful.● My plants looks happy.Cons: Really heavy once you put the soil and it gets havier after watering. I doubt a wall shelf or floating shelf will hold this. It needs a steady strong shelf.Overall: I am happy and found the perfect place to put it. Need to buy another one but waiting for the price to drop a but as its really expensive.

Firstly, I have previously bought a self-watering planter from Lechuza in a smaller size which I really loved, and therefore I decided to come back to the same brand, but for a larger planter as I wanted to plant more herbs! In the smaller planter I planted 3 herbs (coriander, basil, and parsley) but it was too small, and so the coriander died off, so lesson learned for this one!I've attached photos, and as you can see, I have 3 in the first trough, 2 in the second (the coriander was very sickly when it first arrived from the supermarket so I wanted it to have loads of space to recover!) and then my mint on its own in the smaller planter so that I can easily plant it in the garden when it has grown some more.Setting up the planters is very simple - they come with gravel to help with the drainage, and you put that straight in the bottom. I was pleased to see that there was less gravel than in the smaller planter, as with that one if you used all the rocks they gave you, you had no room to put a plant in! Bedding the plants in is simple, I made sure to put a layer of soil/compost down and then placed the plants in and surrounded them with more soil.You must remember to give your plants a chance to put down roots before you start trying to use the "self-watering" part of this planter. Until your plants' roots have reached through to the bottom, they will not be able to drink the water from under the troughs, so until then you must water the soil itself.Overall, I think these are aesthetically pleasing, very easy to use (although lifting the trough off a flat surface is quite difficult, so perhaps get it to where you want it before you start filling it up!), and do their job well. I have plans to expand my "herb garden" so I'll be looking to get some more then!(This is the smaller planter I've been referring to Lechuza Premiuim Delta 10 30cm Wide, High Gloss White Self Watering Houseplant & Herb Windowsill Planter Trough )Happy planting!(I'm sorry about the photos, no matter what browser I use, they will not upload in the correct orientation!)

Made well Brilliant product

Purchased to replace one I dropped and it cracked! Look great on my outdoor windowsills and they really are self watering, keeping the plants hydrated.

Arrived undamaged. Love the colour and seems to be of good construction. I have four decent sized herb plants in it now and they seem to be doing well, though I have not yet switched to automated watering.My only criticism is that it could probably do with more substrate. There was an adequate amount for the job but the deep wells that are intended to act as wicks for the water container use most of the substrate so there was only enough left to cover about 2mm of the base. I will certainly be ordering some more though! I am fairly good with plants but I often find that my wife waters our indoor plants just after I have already done it so I'm hoping this solution will help prevent over watering.

Very good quality German made planter with a double skin, so the plants sit in an internal basket with sits above a water reservoir. There is some slight bowing when painted, but the rigidity and strength are good, and the colour and finish are attractive. The water reservoir has an overflow that can be opened for outdoor use so that they don't get waterlogged, and the water level guage and capped hole to refill them is useful. Be aware that brackets to fit them to railings are an optional extra and not included. I particularly liked the colour and smooth finish, which in my opinion looks better than other brands (which often have a fake rattan finish which I dislike).

Setup:Simple to set up, comes with Gravel for the bottom but does not come with soil, I recommend about 10-12L of soil to fill the planter area after gravel, 10L if you want to have a good lip above the soil, 12L if you want more soil space.Ease of use:This thing is absurdly simple, as close to a fire and forget system as I think it's possible to have. Once you set it up there's a little red water level marker and there's a hole. Put water in hole. Keep water level above min and below max. That's it.Pest control:The plants are growing fast and healthy, but heads up that the irrigation system does not prevent fungus gnats from spreading if they make their way into the pot. I recommend choosing your soil carefully so as to not introduce pests. If you do get tiny black flies buzzing around, yellow sticky paper can be a good holding action but will not deal with the larvae. I'm going to try Nemasys Sciarid Fly Killer for the larvae. Will report back.

I have been growing North American pitcher plants (Sarracenia) and sundews (Drosera) for many years, they are bog plants so need to be soaking wet at the roots all the time during their growing season, the LECHUZA BALCONERA system isn't even designed for this purpose but it is PERFECT for my plants/these kinds of plants, it looks great and the low water idicactor is genius, the removeable trays are ideal for cleaning and checking on roots, what a brilliant and well priced solution to my years long problem.........my only criticism is to please make even bigger versions!