To provide a receiving tool for a horticultural container capable of installing a container for herbaceous flowering plants even in a place where turf is planted without killing the turf.

This receiving tool for a horticultural container is composed by installing a receiving unit 2 for receiving and supporting a container 1 for herbaceous flowering plants such as a flowerpot or a planter, providing fixing mechanisms 5 for fixing the container 1 for the herbaceous flowering plants 1 in the receiving unit 2, arranging a thrusting rod 4 having a length capable of thrusting into the ground surface 3 in the receiving unit 2, thrusting the thrusting rod 4 into the ground surface 3 and thereby enabling the container 1 for the herbaceous flowering plants to be installed in a state thereof floated from the ground surface 3.