Indoor Gardening and Houseplants: What types of pots do you use?, 1 by stellapathic

stellapathic wrote:
Because plastic is so much easier to maintain water-wise and many plants prefer it, but terra cotta is so much nicer looking, I tuck the plastic pots inside the terra cotta. Works great for me. I also have a nice collection of 30s/40s McCoy, Pacific, etc pots that I do the same thing with. Then, if a plant is not looking so great in the container I can transfer something else into it for show and baby the other one until it's feeling better and/or blooming. Some of you may recognize this McCoy pedestal and jardinaire. It sometimes has a huge birds nest fern in it, but that's recovering outside on the deck right now, so this has been in there since before Christmas. The bloom is just about gone but it's still holding it's own. In a plastic pot inside the container. I'd think a healthy spider would look spectacular in something like this. Thanks for the idea!