Self Watering Insert 300mm

A reservoir insert that sits in a pot and waters from below for about ten days, which is the difference between going away and coming back to a dead fern.

Plants are heavier than people expect and wetter than furniture likes. A 400mm pot of wet compost is about 25 kilograms, and a stand that is fine for a sculpture will eventually rack under it. Everything in this part of the range is rated wet rather than dry, and everything that a pot sits directly on is either sealed or supplied with a tray, because the commonest way to ruin a good stand is to water the plant on it.

Specification

• Dimensions: see the product name
• Display surface: not applicable
• Construction: steel, nylon or moulded plastic depending on the item
• Finish: as supplied
• Load rating: stated on the pack
• Levelling: not applicable
• Security: not applicable
• Delivery: one small parcel
• Weight: approximately 0.8 kilograms
• Fits our pieces and most standard sizes
• Sold singly
• No tools needed beyond a spanner

What you get

• The item as described
• Fixings where the item needs them
• A fitting note

Setting it up

Arrives assembled and blanket wrapped. Stand it where you want it, level it on the feet, and take the wrapping back to the van, which the delivery crew will do.

Specifying it

Match the stand to the pot and not to the plant. A stand should be a little narrower than the pot so the pot reads as the object, and it needs to carry the weight of the compost wet rather than dry, which is roughly double. Height is worth thinking about for the plant rather than for the room: most house plants want to be up in the light rather than down at ankle level, and a plant on a 700mm stand next to a window will outgrow the same plant on the floor beside it inside a season.