How to Choose Terracotta Pots for Your Garden?

The classical traditional flower pots are all made up of terracotta. Because of its sheer earthiness, the choice of terracotta is prevalent in any garden, home or elsewhere. These days fibreglass and plastic pots are gradually increasing because of their long-lasting nature and lightweight, still terracotta pots Melbourne hold the imagination of gardeners.

What to choose? Terracotta or Plastic:

Terracotta or unglazed clay pots are created with particular type of soil burned in kilns. The clay is natural to plants and harmonious to every kind of plants. It also looks beautiful with its earthen rusty brown colour.

Benefits:

• Terracotta pots give a healthy environment to plants, especially flowers. It adorns the whole beauty of your garden, especially if you have fountains Sydney and other accessories to accentuate your garden.
• The porosity of clay creates a breathable space for plants and the roots get appropriate moisture and air for their healthy growth.
•  Terracotta pots are also advantageous over plastic or fibreglass because these pot act like wick to remove excess moisture from the soil.
• If you put your pots outside your home or near water features Sydney, you can protect your precious plant roots from drastic alteration in temperature, which can be harmful for the life of plant. Clay has this problem of drying quickly, so you need to keep it in moisture, especially in summers.

Why not plastic pots for your garden:

• Although plastic pots are lightweight, and strong, these are not good option for gardening because it is not natural and do not have the wicking action. You can grow your cactus in your plastic pot, but for moisture loving plants like ferns etc., it is not a good choice.
  
• Plastic pots are manufactured of inert materials, not giving breathing pores for plant roots. Many plastic pots are recyclable and hence, detrimental to environment.
• Thin walls of plastic walls do not give any respite to plant roots in case of temperature change. Black plastic can act as insulator but in summers, it heats up easily, damaging plant roots.