One piece of advice that gets floated around involves layering the bottom of your planter boxes or pots with broken terracotta pots to increase drainage, which is similar to this common plant pot ...

In this tricky optical illusion, you need to spot fragments of a broken flower pot in just 9 seconds. If you can pull this off, you might just have a high IQ. Are you ready to test your skills?

When my children reach eighteen, standing on the cusp of adulthood, I know exactly what I know what I want to give them - a broken pot. It doesn't sound as strange as you think, as it will ...