WGP - Pots & Planters

WGP Pots & Planters

These are novelty character planters rather than plain pots, bought as much for the ornament as for the planting, which changes how to choose one. The figure is the point, so pick by what suits the spot: dog breeds work beside a door or on a patio where they read as an ornament that happens to hold a plant, farm animals and vegetables suit a kitchen garden or allotment, and Irish-themed pieces such as the pub, the bus and the hobnail boot work as a feature or a gift rather than as part of a planting scheme. Solar headlights on the tractor designs light up at dusk with no wiring and no running cost, charging from daylight, which makes them a path or driveway feature as well as a planter. Practically, novelty planters hold less compost than their size suggests because the decorative shape takes up volume, so they suit bedding plants, herbs, trailing annuals and small shrubs rather than anything that roots deeply. Check for a drainage hole and add crocks or gravel at the base if there is any doubt, since a sealed ornament will waterlog and kill the plant. Being resin rather than terracotta, they will not crack in frost and can stay out year round.

WGP supplies the whole range. Dog breeds cover the beagle, border collie, cocker spaniel, german shepherd, husky, jack russell, labrador and maltese, alongside cute piggy and doggie head designs. Farm and animal designs cover a cow, a two-chicken planter with floral decoration, a mother and baby rabbit and a rabbit with carrot. Vegetable designs cover cabbage, purple cabbage, cauliflower, carrot, lettuce and a tulip. Irish and vehicle designs cover the Ireland bus, the Old Irish Pub Shebeen, the hobnail boot and green tractors with solar headlights, including a version with a trailer. For conventional pots, troughs and window boxes see Pots & Planters, and for the wider range Gardening.