Newland Large 16 in. x 13.5 in. 40 Qt. High Density Resin Bone Square Outdoor Planter

This modern panter adds a touch of class to your outdoor setting. Being tall and not too wide, it's perfect for places that don't have a lot of room, yet need something to fill the vertical space. The planter is very light weight hollow resin, yet is still sturdy. The only thing missing here is a drain hole at the bottom. Other than that, it's a great looking and practical modern piece.

+ 4.98 stars of 5 + attractive, sturdy; ~rectangular much easier on tight spaces than round +/- this is not a shorter version of the rubber composite planters, this is rigid plastic with walls about 1/2 the thickness - bottoms are about 1/2 the thickness of their walls I received this planter nesting their coffee model in the same box; the bone arrived cracked at the top, which makes sense from normal shipment jostling while holding ultimately a larger item. I later received an overpacked ceramic planter from them, and a resin 14" dish that had a tight plastic shipping band around and on top of its ~3" lip, so hopefully they'll do something similar if nesting two of these in the same box in the future. *BUT* -- I drilled the coffee with a piloted 1" routing bit, not a spade, with no issues, yet the entire width of the bone cracked before the hole was carved out at low speed. My replacement -- I requested another coffee -- had no issues again, so I'm hoping this specific bone unit I received was just of a bad run of plastic. That said, all three had bottoms about 1/2 the thickness of their walls, and their walls are about half the thickness of those composite rubber planters of identical design. I've tortured those, and they yielded to everything I threw at them; these promise to not yield. But they're thicker than *both* walls in the double-walled fiberglass-resin-stone-composites, and, any of those with slightly thinner mid-sections will implode at those sections, otherwise they will break through their inner bottom walls, with baby-care. Visually, those stone composites always have a lot more going on, but I'll stick with these until someone comes up with a visually stimulating rubber composite -- and for areas I know I'll be abusive, I'll have to get a twice as expensive, twice as tall rubber composite in lieu of these. But -- the 0.02 stars were knocked off for the vulnerability of the bone's paint to highlighting stratches -- both containers seem manufactured in black, then painted, but up close you have a hard time seeing any paint scratches in the coffee, whereas up close they jump out at you in the bone. From any distance, they blend with the rustic look, within reason -- so, as long as you're mindful of this planter's weak points, it should give you years past the service of a stone composite, and far easier to build a planter array around. I'll be moving this outside a good distance once a year, and I have no problem picturing this with my original coffee and this bone's replacement. With ~2" of 1" stones in the bottom, and after a week of watering 1gal eod, a 3" margin up top, I lightly packed 1cf of a 1.5cf bag of something like Foxfarm planting soil in these, each -- I could have easily packed in a full 1.5cf with less or no stone and a more reasonable margin up top, and with more serious packing during the filling process. I will give these rainforest allegedly-fruiting succulents a ton of frankenstein-experiments-amendment over their lives, many of which will add mass eventually.

+ 4.99 stars out of 5 + Very attractive + promises to be durable with reasonable care +/- this is *not* a smaller version of those composite rubber planters, this is rigid plastic with walls ~1/2 the rubbers' thickness - very thin bottom (though I would not have noticed this had one not cracked while drilling.) I received two of these planters initially: this coffee and a "bone;" both are painted, but the coffee is so dark, any scratches in the paint won't be noticed -- scratches in the bone stand out as both are fundamentally black. I drilled a 1" hole in the bottom of this with a piloted 1" routing drill bit, not a spade, with no issue, and couldn't have been happier. The bone arrived cracked at the top -- they shipped together, the coffee inside the bone, so normal shipping probably caused the ~1" crack -- but the entire width of the bottom cracked while drilling its hole, which got me to notice how thin the bottoms are. Had I just noted this without a crack, I'd have just taken note of how dense I should fill this; obviously after a failure I was more concerned, but after requesting another coffee as a replacement, and having again no issue with the drilling nor the shipping, I'm hoping I just got a bad run of plastic on the bone, pretty confident of that, actually. But, this is *not* the thick rubber of the twice as tall, twice as expensive versions in the same shape. I had one of mine not draining, with its insert somehow cocked, and after 8 months of watering about a gallon every four days the thing bowed like a python with a deer in the middle. These planters are rigid plastic, so you can't bump them with any real force, and they will not yield to anything. *BUT* -- I'm finding, one by one, that the fiberglass/resin/powdered stone HD planters, especially any with at all thinner necks, will implode at their weakest point after a year, period, under normal use. They use two walls, so their bottoms will break through but leave the outer shell, best case scenario. So I'm one by one getting off the urns now in lieu of this design, which holds a lot more soil anyway. This took ~1cf of a 1.5cf bag, with a couple of inches of ~1" stones in the bottom and after a week of watering 1gal eod, about a 3" margin up top, not having been too forceful with the packing. I could have gotten a full 1.5cf of, think FoxFarm, but I'll be moving this inside and out a good distance twice a year, and I think the rainforest fruiting succulents have modest roots. The bone was replaced after the picture was taken, and about 75 more lbs of extension cords added, because fire is allegedly good for plants.

I had high hopes from NEWLAND 11.89 IN. X 20.75 IN. COFFEE RESIN SQUARE PLANTER. First off, the shipper shoved in two planters together in a single package and it scratched one badly. The color of this planter is on a darker side which is what I was looking for in an outdoor planter. Although the planter in the product picture looks way better than the actual product. The planter is very light weight which for me is a okay but might not work for some others. The quality is again so-so and is nothing to write home about. Not sure how long it is going to last. I will give it a pass and not recommend.

I had high hopes from NEWLAND 11.89 IN. X 20.75 IN. BONE RESIN SQUARE PLANTER. But the actual product was not even close to what I had expected it to be. First off, the shipper shoved in two planters together in a single package and it scratched this one badly. I am not even sure if I am going to use this one (see pictures). The scratches were there on all four corners of the planter. Secondly, the color of planter in the picture is way off from the actual product itself. The picture was darker compared to what it acutally is. So if you are getting this, just be aware of the fact that color may not match the picture. The build quality is so-so. Nothing home to write about. It is a plastic planter so should be fine but due to issues with it I won't be able to rate it high. Hopefully manufacturer is reading this and takes steps to recitify issues. I won't recommend it to anyone.

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