Practical planter.

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There's nothing like colorful, well-tended plants around your home to lend a cheerfully decorative touch to the landscape. If you have a garden, fine, but if you don't, a planter can serve as the next best thing. The trouble with clay pots, though, is that they are easily knocked over and shatter, while wooden boxes tend to weather, splinter, blister if painted, and are susceptible to termites and other insects.

The solution to these woes is the Presidio vinyl planter from Westech Fence, Mt. Vernon, Ind. Easily assembled, it is made from gleamingly white vinyl that resists...