Patent ID: 7730666

Claim:
A plant container comprising: an upper shell forming a first cavity for soil; a lower shell forming a second cavity for receiving said upper shell; said lower shell and said upper shell forming a space between said upper shell and said lower shell, said space for a water reservoir; said upper shell having holes for passage of water from said water reservoir to said first cavity for soil; said lower shell being water tight to hold water in said water reservoir; said upper shell having an upper shell body portion forming said first cavity, and said lower shell having a lower shell body portion forming said second cavity; said lower shell having one or more funnel regions at the top of said plant container around an upper perimeter of said lower shell body portion, said funnel regions for receiving water and directing said water to said space for said water reservoir, said lower shell having one or more non-funnel regions around said upper perimeter of said lower shell body portion between said one or more funnel regions; said one or more funnel regions characterized by said lower shell forming a radial protrusion in said lower shell body portion wherein said upper perimeter of said lower shell body portion protrudes outward from an upper perimeter of said upper shell body portion a greater distance than a separation distance between said upper perimeter of said upper shell body portion and said upper perimeter of said lower shell body portion within said one or more non-funnel regions.