Review & giveaway: Lechuza PILA modular planters

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This is a collaborative post in partnership with Lechuza.

Are you a fan of container gardening? As well as being a great way for beginners to get started with gardening, growing plants in containers is perfect if you’re short on space or time. Containers are also ideal for renters who need a portable garden, and they make really great gardening projects for kids. And of course, containers allow you to grow houseplants and bring the greenery indoors too.

Whatever your motivation, gardening in pots and containers is a quick and easy way to add colour, texture and interest to your garden and your indoor space.

I’ve been taking a look at the new PILA range of modular planters from Lechuza. I’ve got a fab storage unit combination to give away to a lucky winner too!

Read on to find out more about Lechuza’s PILA range and enter the giveaway.

Lechuza PILA planters lifestyle shot

Lechuza planters

The Lechuza range of containers is manufactured in Germany from high quality, weatherproof, 100% recyclable plastics. There’s a wide variety of styles, colours and finishes to choose from, so it’s not hard to find the perfect product to suit your design style and your plant’s needs.

As well as looking stunning, the Lechuza range of planters have some impressively practical features built into their design. Central to these is an innovative self-watering system that helps to provide your plants with just the right amount of water. A hidden reservoir and wick system allows plants to take up the moisture they need, and a water level indicator tells you when you need to top it up.

Lechuza self-watering system diagram

This is such a great feature to have in a planter, because container plants tend to dry out much more quickly than plants grown in the ground. The Lechuza self-watering system makes your job easier, while also helping your plants to thrive.

The other key feature of Lechuza planters is their removable liners. These stop your plants sitting in the water reservoir, and also allow you to keep the outer planter clean when you’re potting up.

ranunculus plants in a container

The Lechuza PILA range of modular planters

PILA is a new addition to the Lechuza range for 2021. It’s a modular system with interchangeable components, so you can create a combination that’s perfectly suited to your home and your plants.

PILA planters are suitable for indoor or outdoor use and are available in six colours, each of which has a lovely matte finish. You can mix and match your colours, or make a statement with a single colour.

Lechuza PILA planters lifestyle shot

There are three main components in the PILA range: the Color planter, Color Stick and Color Storage. The Planter and Stick both have space for plants on top, while the Storage is a cupboard unit that you stack a Planter or Stick on top of. All three elements can be stacked together to a maximum height of three units. There’s also a coaster base which allows you to move your planters around easily.

I’ve been trying out the Color Storage in slate grey with the Color Stick in light grey.

Lechuza PILA modular planters

Assembly is absolutely minimal with PILA. You simply add in the water level indicator, and stack the units together.

Lechuza PILA modular planters

The planters are supplied with the Lechuza stick system, which allows your plants to access the water reservoir. You push a stick into the base of each pot, which then acts as a wick to draw water up into the soil as required. It’s easy to do, and only takes a couple of seconds.

Inserting a watering wick into a plant pot base

Adding your plants to the planters is also very low-effort. The removable liners are designed to hold four 10-12cm plant pots, so all you have to do is pop them in and you’re done. No planting, no mess, and no tools required.

Adding potted ranunculus plants to a container

It took me less than five minutes to create an instant display.

Lechuza PILA modular planter with plants

I love the modern, clean design of the PILA range. It’s perfect for our contemporary patio, and of course you could just as easily use it indoors too. I filled my planter with ranunculus which will grow to create a lovely floral display, but I also really like the idea of creating a mini herb garden. The stacking element of PILA makes it brilliant for vertical gardening, and you could use multiple units to create a range of different heights to really liven up a balcony or patio.

The storage element of PILA is just brilliant too. I’ve used mine to store the gardening essentials I use on a regular basis, so I don’t have to open up the shed as often. As the weather warms up there’ll be a bottle of sun cream and a book in there too!

Lechuza PILA planter storage unit

Lechuza PILA range: my verdict

I’ve had a really positive experience with my PILA products. They look fantastic, they’re lovely quality, and they’re very simple to use. I love the combination of modern styling and practical design, and the modular element of the range makes it so flexible. The self-watering system is a particularly clever feature which I’m sure will make a real difference to the health of my plants. Finally, the fact that you can use PILA indoors or outdoors is another big plus for me, and not a feature you find very often in pots and containers.

If you’d like to make container gardening easier, or are simply looking for stylish and practical planters, PILA is a great option. Which combination of units would you choose for your home or garden?

Win a PILA Color Storage & Color Stick worth £87.98

I’m giving away one PILA Color Storage and one PILA Color Stick, worth a total of £87.98. To enter, just follow the instructions in the Rafflecopter widget below.  Good luck!

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GIVEAWAY CLOSES: 16th MAY 2021 11:59PM

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I was supplied with a PILA Color Storage and Color Stick for review purposes. Lechuza are also providing one PILA Color Storage and one Color Stick for prize purposes.

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Catherine is a gardener, plant lover, writer, and award winning author of children’s nature books. Her blog is a Vuelio Top 5 gardening blog and her work has been featured in many online and print publications including Grow Your Own Magazine, House Beautiful, Daily Mail, Tesco Magazine, Suttons, Thompson & Morgan, and many more. She is also a member of the Garden Media Guild.

117 Comments

  3. I would love one of the tall containers to take pots of herbs by the back door and also one of the planter troughs – lovely with lots of geraniums. So easy to replace pots rather than have to dig out plants and I like the idea that they can also be used indoors

  4. The Color planter, Color Stick and Color Storage if possible and then I can mix and match when the need arises

  5. I like the petrol blue option for the Pila color – unusual colour for garden accessories. It would really brighten up my tiny, drab back yard. I’d definitely grow flowers, probably keep it simple with some pansies or dahlias.

    1. I love the slate grey and I’d love a tall planter for the front of the house

  9. I love the storage and stick. Sand brown and with petrol blue sounds great!

  10. What a clever system. I’d love to fill our patios with these as I love growing things but am terrible at remembering to water. I like the colour combination you have of light grey/ slate on the cupboard/ stick planter.

  22. I would love to plant herbs in one of the taller planters. I love the light grey and black colour

  24. Fantastic idea. I love the PILA Color Stick pastel green and the PILA Color Storage petrol blue.

  30. Great planters & the bonus of storage. Very stylish and would look great on my patio planted with vibrant flowers.

  32. I love both the PILA Color Planter and the PILA Color Stick …I think a color mix of Slate Grey and Light Grey would look fabulous on my pale grey terrace, but I also love the Coral color as well for a pop of color.

    1. I love the slate grey and I think the storage cabinet underneath is a great idea.

  48. I like the slate grey tall unit and would use it for herbs outside my patio doors. It would be decorative and very useful.

  51. I would love to match our garden with our kitchen and lounge with – PILA Color Storage petrol blue and PILA Color Stick pastel green.

  53. I would love some of the PILA planters to let me bring some garden colour inside my home. I’ve never had much luck growing indoors so their watering system sounds perfect for me

  61. I would love this in petrol blue planter as I am hoping to create a blue and orange garden, the storage is a useful extra.

  62. I’d love a colour stick in light grey and storage in pastel green

  63. I would really like colour stick in light grey and storage in pastel green

  64. The pila sand brown planter is gorgeous and so is the cubeto stone so would maybe go for these designs

  65. wow what an innovative and stylish product – love the secret compartment too! I’d choose the PILA slate colour planter and slate colour storage

  67. tall containers to take pots of herbs by the back door and also one of the planter troughs

  69. I love the taller planters, the slate grey would match our patio furniture

  71. Love this idea and live the garden storage!
    Loving the grey and cream combination you picked.

  72. Any of the petrol blue ones would be most welcome and set my new patio off a treat.

  74. Love this idea. Light grey and slate is fab even though I’d be happy with any of them!!

  75. I love all the colours but i would choose the PILA Color Storage in Slate and the PILA Color Stick in Coral Red

  77. Love the petrol blue containers, but they are all fab and filled with plants and flowers will look so good in my garden, they will be an asset in any garden and look stunning – very unusual and different from the usual tubs and planters you can get at the garden centres. I’m sure they would be a focal point and talking point when my friends and family see them.

  81. Hello, If I was lucky enough to win then I would love the PILA Color Planter and Colr stick in pastel green. Thank you for the chance to win.

  84. The Color planter, Color Stick and Color Storage if possible and then I can mix and match when the need arises

  88. id use a combination of the colour stick and colour planter to start with

  91. a surprise in colour would be fab and this would be brilliant to start a herb garden in looks like a fab product great blog by the way

  93. I would colour coordinate with my rooms so any colour would fit somewhere in our home but my favourite combination would be the pastel green Planter & Storage with a Coral Red Stick for our front entrance.

  95. I would like the Patel green color planters – a matching pair for my herbs right by the kitchen door would be perfect.

  98. I’d go for a slate Color Storage with a petrol blue Colour Stick. I think that would look fantastic in my garden.

  103. these look brilliant , love the CUBE Glossy Triple white high-gloss such a reasonable price too, birthday coming up so will drop a huge hint!

  104. Pastel Green Colour Storage and Petrol Blue Colour Stick I think….hmm….
    I’m in love with these! They are absolutely everything I’ve been wanting and didn’t know existed….

  106. I love these! So clever. I’d choose the light grey planter with the sand brown storage as I think those colours so really well together.

  107. I am drawn to the Colour Storage combi. Why didn’t someone invent these before now? So useful: so stylish.

  109. I like them all but the dark grey and slate would be the best combination for my patio.

  110. A PILA Colour Stick and a PILA Colour Storage would definitely fit the bill – so I could store some useful garden essentials underneath whilst display some well irrigated colourful plants on top. Win win! :)

  113. I love the petrol blue so I’d have that as the stick on top of a slate storage base!

  115. I can’t believe how ingenious these are! I would love to be lucky enough to get my hands on this fab prize

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