With summer coming up, it's time to get in the garden and get the flowers in. I don't have any flower beds so I have a lot of pots instead. I have a few pretty looking pots and a few standard terracotta pots to keep costs down. I decided this year that my terracotta pots needed replacing as the ones I'd got were all chipped and old so we went to B&Q to see about replacing them. I knew terracotta pots weren't cheap, but I was surprised at how cheap. I chose to purchase four identical pots which were 23cm in diameter. These were standard terracotta pots with a large rim surrounding the top of the pot with some fluted lines around the middle of ...  Read the complete review

Now the kids have grown up a bit and they aren't falling over and hitting themselves on anything they can see in the garden (literally!), me and my other half have started to take a bit more of an interest in our garden. Before it was kind of pointless because a plant pot would either be smashed, or there would be toys spread around everywhere, pretty much ruining the look, if you know what I mean! But as the garden is a bit more useable know, about a year and a bit ago I went out on a search for some cheap, but decent plant pots. Where was my first stop? No where else but the legendary B&Q of course! After getting lost in their never ending isles I eventually came ..  Read the complete review

My partner recently bought 6 terracotta flower pots from B&Q to pot some herbaceous plants that we'd also bought as a project to work on with our children. Neither of us are gardeners and so we took the advice of the sales staff at B&Q and they recommended that these very basic terracotta pots would do the job fine. Each were 23cm in diameter and they cost just £1.50 each. There are other sizes also - a 19cm diameter which cost £1.25, a 29cm diameter which cost £4.50 and a 37cm diameter which cost £7.25. All of these pots, I think, are a really good price as 6 pots for £9.00 sounds pretty unbeatable to me. These pots, as I said, are basic flower pots ...  Read the complete review

I have a huge thing for houseplants and as such I have a lot of them! Some of them are large growing plants and since large indoor-specific decorative pots have crazy prices, I buy a lot of plain terracotta pots since they blend in to my decor perfectly. I do also use them outside, mainly for seasonal bedding plants for a splash of colour. They are made from terracotta, which is a type of unglazed ceramic made from clay. They have a very earthy look to them, probably the colour and unglazed texture. The ones I have are all 23cm diameter and were only £1.50 each from B&Q (they do come in various sizes and prices, all bargains!) This price beats big indoor ...  Read the complete review

Like a lot of us I have pots on my patio and apart from my woodern Herb Wheel (previous review) they are all terracotta. I like the natural look of terracotta especially after it has weathered. I always buy different sized pots so they don't look too uniform. The last 2 pots I bought were from B&Q. I bought a 9cm pot and a 23cm one. The 23cm pot is a good size and was going to be ideal for the beautiful lavender I intended to use it for and it only costs £1.50 which in my opinion is a really good price. Terracotta is a clay based unglazed ceramic, the word means "baked earth" in Italian. The B&Q terracotta pot is quite plain and ...  Read the complete review