When you’ve ever despatched flowers to associates, colleagues or family members, solely to wonder if they’ve a vase at house or within the workplace that can match the blooms, the workforce at POTR Pots have the very resolution for that potential downside.
POTR Pots launched the world’s first self-watering origami plant pot in 2021. Since then they’ve offered greater than 15,000 of their merchandise and have now inked a six-figure cope with Europe’s main on-line flower supply firm – Bloom & Wild – in excellent time for Mom’s Day this yr.
Their patent-pending vase arrives flat-packed with Bloom & Wild’s letterbox flowers, which means it matches by your letterbox with ease. With many people sending and receiving letterbox flowers lately, it solely is smart that the receptacle that we place them in can do the identical.
The vase itself is constituted of recycled polypropylene and excessive grade silicone, and is designed to carry a full bouquet of flowers and as much as a litre of water.
Popping up from its flat-packed state, it springs into its closing type immediately out of the field to permit you – or the recipient – to rapidly home the bouquet of flowers.
“Like all of our tasks, this simply began with easy, paper, origami prototypes,” firm director and former Dyson engineer, Andrew Flynn, says. “This forces us to make use of as little materials as doable, to verify the product is as sustainable as it’s lovely and sensible.”
POTR Pots firm administrators Eilidh Cunningham and Andrew Flynn
He and fellow firm director Eilidh Cunningham spent 18 months engaged on ideas, prototypes and the manufacturing of the reusable folding vase, with there being over 200 iterations of it earlier than they ultimately reached the ultimate product that’s now on the market.
Now you can order – or ship – your very personal letterbox vase through Bloom & Wild.