Self-watering planter with unique wicking devices and soil drainage filtration assembly

A self-watering planter apparatus comprising:

• a planter having an upper soil chamber for holding a volume of soil to enable growth of one or more plants in said upper soil chamber, and a lower water reservoir disposed beneath said upper soil chamber to contain water for self-administered watering of said one or more plants;
• a divider wall that separates said upper soil chamber and said lower water reservoir, and a topside of which defines a floor of said soil chamber;
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• a plurality of water wicking devices reaching, or arranged for reaching, from the lower water reservoir into the upper soil chamber in an installed position of said to wick water from the lower water reservoir up into the upper soil chamber for self-administered watering of the one or more plants;
• a drainage opening in the divider wall through which excess water from the soil can drain into the lower water reservoir;
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• a filtration assembly at said drainage opening to allow said excess water to drain into the lower water reservoir while preventing soil from falling thereinto, said filtration assembly comprising a piece of soil filtration fabric, areas of which are held in a sandwiched state atop the floor of the soil chamber at an area thereof surrounding the opening in the divider wall by at least one mounting plate fitted atop said floor of the soil chamber.