# Practical Planters The Flora Box Planter Has Wheels for Easy Mobility By Jessica Marcel | Published 2010-01-29 | Art & Design Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/box-planter References: [design-milk](http://design-milk.com/get-out-planters-get-practical/) & [floraonline.de](http://www.floraonline.de/) Plants can get really heavy, even heavier than you’d expect. All the dirt, roots, and moisture combine to create the perfect precursor to a back injury. Flora design, however, has the answer. The designers there have created the Box Planter with convenient wheels. The Box Planter shares a resemblance to a file box, making it more [IKEA](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/herb-storage-container) style than, say, Ethan Allen. The functionality outweighs the slight style shortcomings, though, and the Box Planter comes in many different colors. ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 1.9/10 - Popularity: 6% | Activity: 44% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 10% men, 90% women - Primary generations: Millennial, Gen X - Top markets: North America, Europe, Asia ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Art & Design](https://www.trendhunter.com/artdesign) > [Design](https://www.trendhunter.com/design) ## Key Themes ### Key Themes Behind This Trend - **Mobile Planters:** The Flora Box Planter with wheels offers a disruptive innovation opportunity by enabling easy mobility for plants. - **Functional Design:** The practicality of the Box Planter presents a disruptive innovation opportunity for designers to create stylish and functional planters. - **Versatile Planters:** The Box Planter's variety of colors opens up a disruptive innovation opportunity for customization in the planter industry. ### Where This Applies - **Gardening:** The mobile planters trend presents a disruptive innovation opportunity for the gardening industry by providing convenient mobility for plants. - **Home Decor:** The functional and stylish design of the Box Planter opens up a disruptive innovation opportunity for the home decor industry in creating unique and practical planters. - **Furniture:** The versatile colors of the Box Planter offer a disruptive innovation opportunity for the furniture industry to incorporate customizable planters into their product offerings. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Modular Urban Planters](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/planter-300.md) - [Vertical Workstation Wall Planters](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/ceramic-wall-planter.md) - [Futuristic Self-Watering Planters](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/the-klaustrafloria.md) - [Basket-Inspired Smart Planters](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/bloom-engine-spot.md) - [Chic Self-Watering Garden Planters](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/glowpear-mini-bench.md) - [Gentle Slant Planters](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/tilt-planter.md) - [Naturalistic Self-Watering Planters](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/apot-selfwatering-planter.md) - [Self-Watering Compact Planters](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/patella-crescenda.md) - [Portable Minimal Smart Planters](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/balconyfarm-planter.md)