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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Assembly is absolutely minimal with PILA. You simply add in the water level indicator, and stack the units together.
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.
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.
It took me less than five minutes to create an instant display.
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 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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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.
love this idea for indoors or out
I like the light grey and slate!
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
The Color planter, Color Stick and Color Storage if possible and then I can mix and match when the need arises
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.
I love the slate grey and I’d love a tall planter for the front of the house
I’d love The the tall containers x
light grey and slate
The light grey and slate would be lovely
I love the storage and stick. Sand brown and with petrol blue sounds great!
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.
The light grey and slate looks very pleasing.
Light grey for outdoors, very practical love these
I really love the slate and the light grey
Slayt Nd light grey °all so beautiful and special
The light grey and slate would be great
I would choose the natural Sand Brown colour planter.
Love the slate grey
I like the grey wall planters.
I’d go for a Colour Planter on top of a Colour Storage, both in petrol blue
I would go for all dark grey for an indoor planter.
What a beautiful giveaway, so unique
I would love to plant herbs in one of the taller planters. I love the light grey and black colour
the colour planter and colour stick, I think. I have a lot of plants so any really
Fantastic idea. I love the PILA Color Stick pastel green and the PILA Color Storage petrol blue.
I’d love the Color Storage in slate grey!
The colour storage in grey would be fab for my garden
I hadn’t heard of these before but they are very clever and stylish, love the light grey
I’d choose the petrol blue and pastel green combination
I really like theSlate Grey!
Great planters & the bonus of storage. Very stylish and would look great on my patio planted with vibrant flowers.
What a great prize and idea
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.
Brilliant idea – so simple!
brill prize for any gardener.
petrol blue looks stunning. Would really brighten up my garden
I think there great for those have little garden
I love the light grey and slate
Beautiful looking planters to enhance my patio
I love the petrol blue Color Planter and the PILA Color Stick
id, choose, the, color ,planter
I love the slate and lights grey. Fabulous prize, thank you x
These planters look really smart in a selection of classic colours .
I love the slate grey and I think the storage cabinet underneath is a great idea.
Love the slate and light grey!
I think the grey colour would look smart in any garden
What a really lovely prize for my plants, thank you for the chance
light grey and slate looks great! x
I would go for a storage planter and stick in petrol blue and pastel green.
I like the slate grey tall unit and would use it for herbs outside my patio doors. It would be decorative and very useful.
I love the grey and white. What a great idea for a small outdoor space
Love the light grey and slate
I would love to match our garden with our kitchen and lounge with – PILA Color Storage petrol blue and PILA Color Stick pastel green.
I would pick the Petrol Blue and Pastel Green and Slate
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
I’d love a colour stick in light grey and storage in pastel green
I would choose the petrol blue
colour stick in petrol blue and storage in slate
Color Storage in slate grey 🙂
I love the slate grey tall unit
I would choose a few PILA colour planters.
I would choose the slate grey and white combination
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.
I’d love a colour stick in light grey and storage in pastel green
I would really like colour stick in light grey and storage in pastel green
The pila sand brown planter is gorgeous and so is the cubeto stone so would maybe go for these designs
wow what an innovative and stylish product – love the secret compartment too! I’d choose the PILA slate colour planter and slate colour storage
Love the ones with storage underneath what a great idea
tall containers to take pots of herbs by the back door and also one of the planter troughs
The colour planter and storage
I love the taller planters, the slate grey would match our patio furniture
I like the petrol blue colour, it’s nice and bright
Love this idea and live the garden storage!
Loving the grey and cream combination you picked.
Any of the petrol blue ones would be most welcome and set my new patio off a treat.
I love the slate coloured planter and the light grey colour stick
Love this idea. Light grey and slate is fab even though I’d be happy with any of them!!
I love all the colours but i would choose the PILA Color Storage in Slate and the PILA Color Stick in Coral Red
I like the Color planter in slate grey
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.
I like the light grey and slate storage and stick.
I love the light grey and slate storage planter please
I like the PILA garden planter in petrol
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.
I really like the petrol blue colour stick they make
The light grey and slate would be great for me
The Color planter, Color Stick and Color Storage if possible and then I can mix and match when the need arises
Light grey and slate
I like the light grey and slate
Color Storage in slate grey looks great to me
id use a combination of the colour stick and colour planter to start with
light grey and slate
Storage in petrol blue and colour stick in pastel green would be amazing!
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
look fantastic
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.
I would choose the slate, it’s gorgeous!
I would like the Patel green color planters – a matching pair for my herbs right by the kitchen door would be perfect.
Some innovative features. They look smart.
love them all! but has to be grey and black 🙂
I’d go for a slate Color Storage with a petrol blue Colour Stick. I think that would look fantastic in my garden.
These look pretty cool. I like the storage unit and the planter
Planters Paradise
Love The Slate Grey
I love the Lila pots. These are perfect for indoor and outdoor use.
The colour storage in grey …what a genius whoever designed these…I’m totally in love with this range
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!
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….
I like the slate and the light grey
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.
I am drawn to the Colour Storage combi. Why didn’t someone invent these before now? So useful: so stylish.
Slate and light grey look classy
I like them all but the dark grey and slate would be the best combination for my patio.
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! 🙂
I would go for the slate grey and cream combination.
The light grey and slate
I love the petrol blue so I’d have that as the stick on top of a slate storage base!
Sounds a great planter, looks very stylish too
I can’t believe how ingenious these are! I would love to be lucky enough to get my hands on this fab prize