This self-watering planter is indeed attractive but fails miserably when trying to grow plants in it. The "self-watering" feature ends up trapping water and creating potting soil mud which killed all of my plants. There are no drainage holes in the bottom of the three separate planting containers and my newly planted plants died before their roots could reach the wet soil at the bottom of the box. I kept watering them and consequently ended up with dead plants and a box full of stinky, muddy potting soil. Horrible! Use only if you have artificial plants to display.