Lovely blooms---Booj's orchid is really stunning!
Indoor Blooms & things that get you through the winter #2
Pixie, what a wonderful peach color on your new Christmas cactus.
Wha, nice to see some roses this time of year and your new found macro talent.
I got to go see Boojum today, and that orchid is more stunning in person. She has some very special ones in bloom now.
I planted up some of my attempts at throwing flower pots with cyclamens and hippeastrums for Christmas gifts. I have thrown about 20 so far, but only took shots of a some of them. I will hopefully be able to throw 50 more big ones for my hippeastrums by spring. I will try to glaze them to match the bloom of what I will plant in them which will be fun to do. This return to pottery after 40 years has been great fun, but it ain't like riding a bike. I totally forgot. Patti
O yes coral cactus Pixie! Your work is SO luvly Patti!
The pots look great!!!!
Those are great pots Patti
and the glazes are wonderful.
Patti those pots are lovely!!! I'd buy those in a heart beat if i saw them!!! Send me ANY rejects you don't deem worthy of your plants......they are worthy enough for mine!!!!! LOL
Beautiful. They do look store bought! You have a great talent.
I would love a few of those pots for my AV's! (and hoya's, orchids, etc...) LOL--They are beautiful! When I was 12, I visited Bennington pottery and have loved pottery ever since.
Its a great sport.I made clay pieces for over 30 years
Patties are just great.Its hard to achieve a piece after a long vaca.
Beautiful and creative pots, Patti!
For the life of me, I can't understand why more clay artists don't throw pots. At least in my area, I can't remember the last time I saw pots for sale at an art fair or clay studio. I've commissioned special pots before, but I would think there would be such a market for them. A person can use only so many bowls and mugs, but a gardener can ALWAYS use another pot! With the price of those plain "hand thrown" Wolfe pots, I would think a potter could get a decent return on more decorative ones.
You all are are too kind. I think throwing flower pots is emotionally hard, as when you go to such trouble to make a whole pot, you hate to go and cut a hole into the bottom when trimming it. But I have gotten beyond that now. I have been throwing lots of bowls and other utility pieces too, but I agree with HoosierGreen that no one at the coop studio in Boston that I am using is making flower pots. I forgot to throw the saucers, so I will have to do a mess of those next. Patti
Your pots are really nice. Such talent. The plants and pots go together so nicely.
Hoosiergreen You are about 20 years too late for the hand thrown pottery boom. It came and went.No-one is sorrier than me.I made some garden things but the Asians came to this country and copies the pots we were making and put us out of business with cheap imitations.
Now potters throw for their own satisfaction.
I am not saying the craft is completely dead, there are potters still out there, but when I was doing shows in the70's, 80's and 90's there were at least 60 potters in a show of 200 artists, now there are much less.
Public taste determins the market.They move on to other crafts for collectables,the hot crafts now are metal and glass.
I do see faux-clay pots of plastic and resin, but they sure don't have the look of real hand-thrown pieces. I know there are fewer potters, but I feel there would be a market for the real thing. Potters would probably have to sell pots in conjunction with garden tours and local art fairs, or possibly they could arrange with independent garden centers to carry them. There are two great garden centers in my area that import things, and those imports are not inexpensive! I would think locally hand-made pots would be a wonderful addition to the merchandise.
If any potters in DG's world end up having pots for sale, let me know!
I prefer pottery!
These are some planters GF made for me,she has a lucrative sculpture business and wouldnt add these to her line ,I feel lucky she made them .
nice JoAnn.. I love the one in the middle with the blue
not up on the pottery lingo - at first i thought it was literally throwing pots that were rejects - i guess it means making them by hand or handmade.
patti those are beautiful.
Throwing does mean made on a wheel.
Take a 2 pound ball of clay and place it in the center of a wheelhead and kick the wheel until it gets to 225 rpm's and then grab the lump and place the left thumb in the center and push down to make a hole in the center of the clay etc,etc.I dont know where the term throw came from but thats it.
Its like ballet when done by a pro.Mezmerizing to watch a jar or bowl being made.
Those are really nice Jo Ann, lucky you she didn't want to included them!!
'Santo's' has been putting on a show. Took this one upside down, but I like it with the Christmas Tree lights in the background.
This is it w/a flash.
Beautiful picture Pixi
Love the xmastree lights, very nice touch.
And some buds im waiting on....'Snowdrift', and an Unknown.
(don't kow why the flash didn't go off.)
Thanks Ge, I do too. ^_^
Patti, those pots are beauties---I would love to buy pots like that around here! And Jo Ann, yours are really unique! Pixie, you're making me jealous---no amaryllis for me this year, unless I find some when I come back in Feb.
Luv the swirly pots ge! I've been looking at the pueblo pots down here but none of it seems tough enough to live outside in the north :(
If they absorbe water and freeze thay will dissolve.
Exactamondo ge :( and too many freezy nights where I live.
Actually, some Mexican pottery will do fine surviving cold winters. I have a Mexican pottery turtle planter that I accidentally left out years ago, and to my surprise it made it through a severe winter with no disintegration at all. It's now over five years old and shows no signs of wear. You might buy one pot to see what happens.
Good idea. Thanks HG.
There are risks with anything that holds water.
I turn over all my clay items in the garden.Just lay planters on their sides so they dont get filled with moisture which freezes and expands and breaks the planter.
If the dirt part is shallow there might not be a problem.
I leave this cement birdbath out all season.
I have 2 hand made pots that I bring into the greenhouse for the winter so they stay dry for just that reason ge. The freeze/thaw of Chinooks can be brutal on clay and ceramics.
GE, the term throw may come from preparing the clay for the wheel. We would throw the clay repeated on a hard flat surface to make it more pliable and get any air pockets out of it. This method can also be used to make a large flatter piece of clay for free form sculpting. Ric
yep
or throwing clay chunks at Damien the Spawn of Satan Treerat ^_^
Dh just went to get a few gallons of paint. He's been bugging me to pick colors so he can paint. We finally went to get some of those little Glidden samples they have today. The living area is going to be Summer Sandcastle and the hall is going to be Sandy Feet. : ) Oh and after seeing someone's on DG I decided to try a Hoya 'Rubra' it's really cute with white centered leaves and pinkish red stems. : ) Any one know how and when to get it to flower?
My Zombie Amaryllis is blooming. Boy are they beautiful.
A little closer look.
Beautiful color!
They really are. One of them was a gift from Critterologist for helping her plant crocuses. The other pot was a couple of extras I had ordered.
I was thinking of you yesterday, sure wish I had my camera with me. My Mom's violets are just blooming their heads off. They are so beautiful, she says she's not a gardener but she has 3 violets that she has had for years and they are just beautiful. She only has a few house plants but they are really beautiful, her Christmas cactus is huge and flowering.
Here is the other Am that I have. These were to be a gift for a friend but when I opened the bag they had already started to grow and bloom. So I planted them and kept them as they weren't nice enough to give away. I have been enjoying the blooms though.
Bright Sparks.
Wish You had your camera with you too-- was taking pics of a few I have blooming yesterday--wonder if I caught your vibes--LOL! Does your Mom belong to any of the online AV forums? I'm actually culling my collection--have some mystery lilliputian thing going on with some of my plants, so, due to my current circumstances, tossing some rather than rescuing. It's going to shrink my collection considerably.