Flower pot

Claim 1

In apparatus for accommodating plants, the combination comprising: a unitary reservoir container comprising an enclosing wall, a seat and a fill tube, said enclosing wall having a substantially cylindrical configuration open at one end to form a mouth and having a unitary floor at the other end to define a fluid compartment, said seat being a projection extending inwardly from said enclosing wall to form a ledge in said reservoir container and said fill tube projecting outwardly from said enclosing wall so as to communicate with said fluid compartment by a passage formed in said fill tube whereby liquid may flow through said passage to fill said fluid compartment; a planting container comprising an enclosing wall, a plurality of hollow aerator tubes and a plurality of hollow wick tubes combined in a unitary assembly wherein said enclosing wall has a substantially cylindrical configuration and has a floor at one end to define a planting compartment which rests on said ledge when said planting and reservoir containers are joined, said hollow aeration tubes being disposed at spaced apart locations in the enclosing wall of said planting container and extending from the atmosphere surrounding the planting container through and beyond said enclosing wall into said planting compartment whereby said surrounding atmosphere can readily communicate with soil material placed in said planting compartment so as to achieve widely dispersed internal aeration thereof, said hollow wick tubes being symetrically formed in said planting container floor with inner ends projecting into said planting compartment and outer ends projecting beyond said planting container floor; a wick disposed in each of said wick tubes and extending beyond the inner and outer ends thereof, and holding means for detachably joining said planting container to said reservoir container with said wick tubes projecting into said fluid compartment whereby fluid therein can be transported into said planting compartment by said wicks.