Common materials for planters are terracotta, stone and wood. High-end containers may be ceramic or stoneware. Inexpensive resin can be molded to resemble expensive pottery. Baskets and boxes can be woven out of wire and lined with peat pots or sphagnum moss. Do-it-yourself materials include "Hypertufa", an artificial stone made with peat, perlite and cement. Many surfaces can be painted or faux-finished to resemble other materials or antique pieces. Permeable objects like wire baskets, leather and paper-mache must be lined; drainage holes should be added to solid materials like metal and wood, where standing water can rot the container.
Eco-thinkers have come up with an amazing new way to create drinking water – by putting plants in the bottom of a shower.
Designers Jun Yasumoto, Vincent Vandenbrouk, Olivier Pigasse, and Alban Le Henry came up with the concept when looking for new ways to recycle precious H2O.
After you have washed in the special eco-shower the water passes down into a series of physical filters and is treated by plants such as reeds and rushes growing around your feet. Yasumoto, 34, said: ‘These plants have been proven to be able to remove the chemicals from your shampoo.
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