Patent ID: 7681357

Claim:
A containerized plant array stand-alone support structure comprising: a substantially horizontal upper wall portion, wherein the upper wall portion is contoured into a horizontal planar array of mutually contiguous, downwardly converging funnel segments; wherein each funnel segment of the horizontal planar array is associated with a container receptacle extending downward from the upper wall portion and concentric with a corresponding funnel segment, and wherein the segment incorporates at least one liquid overflow drainage passage proximal to the container receptacle; and wherein each of the container receptacles includes: at least one substantially upward-facing sealing surface for providing a seal between the container receptacle and a container, at least one side wall, wherein the at least one vertical side wall is tapered, a substantially horizontal bottom wall comprising at least one upward recess, wherein a bottom perimeter of the at least one container receptacle side wall is coupled along a perimeter of the bottom wall, an open upper end, at least one receptacle liquid drainage passage, and at least one containerized plant lifting tool access hole extending through an uppermost wall of the at least one upward recess, wherein the containerized plant lifting tool access hole is elevated higher from the bottom wall relative to the at least one receptacle liquid drainage passage, and wherein the at least one containerized plant lifting tool access hole is oriented substantially beneath a section of at least one upward recess in a bottom wall of a container when installed in the container receptacle.