Abstract: A plant container having a peripheral step thereon defining a base and a pair of soil bearing plates resting on the peripheral step and defining with the base a water containing space below the plates. The base has a plurality of peripheral raised sections in the shape of truncated cones disposed at a regular spacing and of a height equal to the peripheral step on the body and a raised section in the central area of the base having a height equal to the peripheral raised sections to respectively support interior portions and contiguous edges of the plates.