| 摘要 |
A potted plant assembly including a container open at the upper end thereof, a body of material filling the container to a predetermined level, a quantity of foam-forming synthetic organic plastic resin distributed throughout the body of material, the quantity of resin being reacted in situ to form an open-celled hydrophilic polymer binding the body of material into a cohesive mass and to the adjacent inner surfaces of the container, a body of foam in the container extending from the predetermined level upwardly adjacent to the upper end of the container, the foam being an open-celled hydrophilic polymer of synthetic organic plastic resin and being secured to the upper surface of the cohesive mass and the adjacent inner surfaces of the container, and a growing plant having the roots thereof substantially uniformly disposed throughout the adjacent portions of the body of foam and the stalk thereof intimately surrounded by the body of foam and extending through the upper surface; also disclosed is a potted plant assembly wherein the plant is disposed in a soil plug that is placed in the cohesive mass and the body of foam; also disclosed are methods of forming such potted plant assemblies.
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