The Cache Pot

06/08/2025

06/08/2025

Garden pottery comes in a myriad of shapes and styles. Add a plant and it can become sublime art.

Pictured: planters by contemporary Florida ceramists Leo and Karin Villeroman.

03/28/2025

Pottery buying trip with members for garden club. :)

06/03/2021

Wrought and cast iron items in the garden are durable and and can give many years of use but eventually (like the rest of us) will suffer the slings and arrows of time. Although a little pricey, having vintage items sandblasted by a detailing or car body shop and then powder-coated will seal the iron from corrosion and give items about 10 years of outdoor use without having to paint them at all. Here are a few 'before' pictures of cast iron urns and Victorian garden edging. In a few weeks I will post for you the 'after' pictures.

12/29/2020

Mid-20th century turquoise embossed ceramic vase from the Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati, Ohio, #6870 (1947). The art pottery company was founded by Maria Longworth Nichols Storer and was noted for employing women.

12/03/2020

The secret to keeping orchids a long time, happily reblooming year after year, for the most part is keeping their roots moist but not wet and receiving bright indirect light.

11/01/2020

Rex begonia 'Raspberry Splash'

03/08/2020

Psst -- We gardeners, whether inside or outside, know this. A thousand years ago when I lived in a one-room screened cottage in the middle of a jungle garden on Maui I never experienced such happiness and joy in just being alive. Nature is the master tonic. "When the world wearies, and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the Garden."

An innovative new Rx from U.K. doctors: a trip to the garden store.

02/03/2020

Large antique ceramic jardiniere with playing cherubs in raised relief paired with orange clivia. c. 1915, Donatello series, Roseville Pottery Co., Zanesville, Ohio.

01/30/2020

French brass cache pot, c. 1880, paired with miniature salmon colored potted roses.

01/30/2020

French brass cache pot, c. 1880, paired with miniature salmon colored potted roses.

06/04/2019

My latest trolling for planters find. I can't help myself, my form of chocolate.