The Darwin is the tallest rectangular planter in the Jay Scotts collection — 106.7 centimetres high, sixty-one centimetres deep, and stretching from just under a metre up to nearly two metres in length. The proportions sit above the typical seated eye line and just below the standing one. That makes the Darwin the piece that does what most planters can't: it doesn't suggest privacy, it creates it. Where a Brisbane defines a zone, the Darwin closes it. Where an Amesbury hints at division, the Darwin commits.

What changes when you commit to that extra height is what you can plant. The deep, generous interior — 174 cm of internal length in the longest size, 52 cm of width — gives genuine root volume for small trees, mature shrubs, fully established hedging, even slender bamboo. Plant a Darwin run with a structural specimen tree at one end and clipped hedging running along the rest, and the line reads as a hedgerow that someone moved indoors with them. There is no other off-the-shelf planter system at this scale that lets you do this — most installations of this height require custom carpentry, structural reinforcement, and a landscape budget several times larger. The Darwin lets you specify a green wall the way you would specify a piece of furniture.

It belongs wherever a space needs the privacy of a wall without the permanence of one. Around a rooftop hot tub or pool, two or three Darwins set in an L give the entire bathing area the kind of intimacy guests usually only find at the best hotels. Between adjacent restaurant terraces or competing café fronts on the same pavement, a row of Darwins creates an instant territorial line — clearly yours, clearly not theirs, no construction permits required. In hospitality VIP zones, private dining rooms inside larger restaurants, or office boardrooms that need acoustic and visual separation, the height does the work of an architectural partition without ever feeling installed. The matching corner piece (70325.C) closes the system at any right angle.

Every Darwin is hand-finished in the same automotive-grade composite fiberglass as the rest of the Jay Scotts collection. It endures from −20 °C to +50 °C without cracking or fading, and despite the architectural scale, stays light enough that a rooftop installation rarely requires structural reinforcement — the kind of detail that quietly decides whether a project happens at all when the answer is otherwise "no, the building can't take the load." Available in four lengths with a matching corner piece, in all 21 standard Jay Scotts finishes, with custom colour matching on request.

Ideal for Rooftop hot tubs, pools & spa enclosures · Hospitality VIP zones & private cabanas · Hotel terraces with neighbouring properties · Restaurant terrace separation in dense urban settings · Private dining rooms within larger restaurants · Office boardrooms & executive privacy zones · Residential gardens needing boundary screening · Specimen trees, mature shrubs, slender bamboo, full hedging · Anywhere a green wall is needed without permanent construction · Commercial & large-scale landscape projects