Concrete pots & planters: Bold, impressive beauty
Planters are a stunning addition to any commercial or residential landscape, providing a great solution for adding structure to organic softscaping elements. Anston’s range of large-format architectural concrete planters include cylindrical pots and rectilinear planters. Excellent strength and long-lasting durability are the key characteristics of the planters.
Overview
Planters are a stunning addition to any commercial or residential landscape, providing a great solution for adding structure to organic softscaping elements.
Anston’s range of large-format architectural concrete planters include cylindrical pots and rectilinear planters. Excellent strength and long-lasting durability are the key characteristics of the planters, which are structurally reinforced with high performance steel.
Like all other products in the Anston product suite, Anston planters are available to purchase in any of the 25 standard colours within the four colour ranges. Bespoke colours and alternative aggregate materials are also available upon request, giving designers the flexibility to work within a full colour spectrum and incorporate interesting materials into their design.
A Barricade of Planters
Unlike alternative, more lightweight materials, Anston’s concrete planters possess a functional duality which makes them appropriate for use in pedestrian safety applications. Due to their size and weight, especially when filled with plants and soil, Anston planters can be used strategically in highly-trafficked areas where not only do they provide an aesthetically pleasing decorative element, but also an intimidating barrier between vehicular and pedestrian zones, due to their inbuilt resistance to forceful impact.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Anston concrete planters are available to order in the 12 beautiful colours of our Mineral Range - a series of warm white, cool grey and deep charcoal colours with various stone aggregate options.
Custom colours or mix designs are available upon application. Requests for custom colours will be considered as a bespoke product enquiry.
We are pleased to offer a diverse range of round, square and rectangular planters, offering an option to suit most design styles.
For specific product dimensions, please refer to the product diagrams and information in the above section of this page.
Anston's standard, most popular finish for all our concrete products is a shot-blasted finish, which highlights the beautiful, sensuous texture of concrete.
Customers can select from a light, medium or heavy level of shot-blasting. Light blasting results in a smoother texture and heavy blasting results in a rougher, grittier textured finish.
For products made using our EcoPebble, Ironstone or Mineral Range colours, a heavier level of blasting will reveal more of the stone aggregate in the mix.
Certain products in our range of concrete planters can be produced in a smooth, off-mould/off-form finish. This finish is achieved when products are stripped out of the moulds with no further treatments applied to the surface. This creates a very industrial visual style and is most suited to large-format, flat edged products as opposed to curved products, due to the presence of visible seam lines from the moulds.
Rectilinear-shaped planters can be further enhanced with a honed finish, where the surface of a shot-blasted product is ground to remove the roughness of the shot-blasted texture. This achieves a silky smooth finish that is pleasing to the touch.
Honed products can be treated a step further to achieve a polished finish, which uses finer grits to grind the surface, making it even smoother with a shiny, glossy appearance.
Anston's standard product pricing includes a shot-blasted finish. Additional fees apply for honing and polishing of products.
Yes, Anston's range of design-ready catalogue planters each include drainage holes at the base of the planters as standard. Unfortunately, the positioning of these drainage holes cannot be changed.
For more detailed information or product drawings pertaining to a specific planter from our range, please contact the Anston team by submitting the form at the bottom of this page.
Yes, Anston concrete planters are supplied with small concrete 'feet' that are designed to raise the base of the planter off the ground, allowing for adequate drainage of water out of the planters.
For more information or to view specific product drawings, please contact Anston by filling out the form at the bottom of this page.
Anston's concrete planters are significant in weight, and are not suitable for transport by hand. When lifting, transporting or handling these products, customers must always use the appropriate lifting equipment that is adequately load-rated to bear the product weight.
Typically, installation of our concrete planter products products is completed via careful lifting and positioning of each unit into place, using a crane and slings or a forklift.
The specific methodology is generally determined by the installer on a case-by-case basis.
