Stone to look at, fiberglass to lift
Cosapots is designed and made by The Pots Company NV in Kortrijk, Belgium. Each planter is molded by hand and takes three to seven days to finish. The material is their own, branded Cohesa: fiberglass combined with polyester and natural additives, with the stone appearance coming from mineral colorants mixed into the body rather than applied over it.
That last point is the one people get wrong, so it is worth being plain about. Cosapots is not fiberstone. Fiberstone is a composite with crushed stone in it and the weight that implies. Cohesa is a fiberglass laminate that reads as stone from two feet away and lifts like fiberglass.
The numbers come off the drawing
Cosapots draws every size individually. Cosapots publishes a manufacturer CAD sheet for almost every size, with the body, the rim, the wall thickness and the drainage positions dimensioned. Two of the forty sizes we sell have no sheet. We read all thirty-eight of them and put each size's own drawing on its own page. Select a size and the drawing changes with it.
Two of the figures we list come off those drawings, and they are the two most worth having.
Plantable depth on the tall models. Reglo and Lofto carry a molded internal floor set well above the base, with a sealed void underneath it. A Lofto 50 has a body forty-three inches tall and plants seventeen inches deep. Seventeen is what we list, because that is the number that decides what will grow in it.
The widest point, not the rim. A Mondo High 45 measures twenty-two inches across the belly and seventeen at the rim. Twenty-two is what we list, because that is the number that decides whether it fits.
Each size table names its source for every figure it shows.
Six colors, stocked
Cosapots publishes seven colors. Five are stocked here in every model: Carbon, Brown, Concrete, Grey and Sand. River stone is stocked on some models and special order on others, and Taupe stone is special order throughout, which is why the color count varies from one model to the next on this page.
The color is not a coat. It is mixed into the material, which is a real difference from a painted finish and the reason the surface reads as mineral rather than as a color applied to a shape.
Frost, water and the inside
The inside of every planter is sealed with a watertight layer. The bottom is raised, so water that does get in runs off rather than standing under the pot.
On frost, the manufacturer holds a cycling report: ten cycles between eighty degrees Celsius and minus fifteen, with no cracking, peeling or color shift. Worth knowing what that report actually covers. It was run by the company that supplies the coating, and what it examines is the finish rather than the laminate underneath. It is real evidence about the surface and we are not going to stretch it into more than that.
Drilling and drainage
Cosapots ships with a sealed bottom. Drilling is the buyer's job, and the manufacturer's warranty has something to say about doing it outside their guidance, so it is worth reading their planting sheet before you start. We link it on every product page.
This is a real difference from the other line we carry, where we drill free before shipping. We do not offer that here, because it is not the manufacturer's arrangement.
Warranty
Five years from first purchase, against manufacturing defects in normal use. Two details that are easy to miss and that we would rather state than bury. A replacement may differ in color, shape and size from the original, which is the manufacturer's own wording for a five year term on a hand-made product. And a claim needs the dated invoice and photographs of the damage.
What we do not carry
The Cosapots catalog runs to seventy-six sizes across twenty-two models. Forty-one of those sizes reach the US through NewPro, and those are the ones on this page. Eight models are not imported at all, including Juno, Opulo and Amo, and several arrive without their top size, among them Mondo, Lupo, Roco and Cavo.
If you have seen a Cosapots model elsewhere that is not here, that is usually why.
