This creative planter lets you know when you watered it last!

In my experience, there are two types of plant-lovers. People who love plants and are capable of taking care of them, and people who love plants but inevitably end up killing them every single time. Me, I’m somewhere on that spectrum, closer to the latter.

I love plants, but to be quite frank, I suffer from watering-memory-loss syndrome. That’s medical-speak for “I can never remember when I watered them last”, and that means I either end up over or under-watering them. Needless to say, they die most of the time. The Forget Me Not planter, however, was built to easily overcome that problem. With a two-part design featuring a planter-pot and base-tray, the Forget Me Not planter lets you mark a date on it, reminding you of when you watered it last. The planter’s base comes with numbers engraved on it, while the underlying tray features a single notch, letting you see the date through it quite like a date-window on a watch. When you water a plant, set the date on its base and it acts as a physical reminder to tell you when it was watered last. Works exceptionally well when you’ve got some plants that need watering daily, and succulents that only need to be watered once a week.

Designer: Patrycja Gorzela

The Tilt Effect

What makes the Tilt It, the watering can stand out is its diagonal base. This kind of orientation makes it easier to pour out the water with less lifting. Essentially a lot of wrist work is required and pouring out the last of the water from a traditional flat-bottomed watering can cause a strain. Hit the jump for the details.

  • Pouring from a traditional can requires the user the lift and tilt it to ninety degrees. There is a need to lift one’s arm quite high and bend the wrists considerably.
  • Tilt It, on the other hand, has a ‘diagonal’ base.
  • When Tilt It is held ‘vertically’ by its top handle, the water inside naturally flows to the lowest point of the diagonal, near the base of the spout.
  • This means that less tilting is required by the gardener in order to pour the water out. One needn’t lift their arms so high.
  • When Tilt It is placed on the floor, its diagonal base causes it to tilt backwards. The top handle sits at an angle, which allows it to be grasped more comfortably.

Tilt It is a 2013 Red Dot Award: Design Concept Winner.

Designers: Choi Hyunchul, Prof. Doh Han Young & Kim SooHwan

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The Blue Leaf Water

Watering is an innovative water purifier intended for singles. It can be wall mounted and features a blue leaf that indicates the number of glasses you have consumed during the day. It is recommended that we consume at least 8 to 10 glasses of water a day, so with each rotation, the blue leaf keeps a track of the number glasses consumed. You can customize the temperature and other features to suit your needs. I like it more for the fact that it integrates so well as a funky wall art décor!

Designer: Hyelin Lee

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