For our family, the garden is an extension of our home. It has been since our own childhood, and we're continuing the tradition for our son. Some years we end up with mountains of zucchini baked into zucchini bread and frozen for the winter. Other years it's peas that fill our bellies for weeks on end. And always the tomatoes. Always the tomatoes.
But a big tomato plant starts as a simple seed, and it has to start somewhere. In recent decades, this is most often a plastic pot that is flimsy and disposable, cracking or tearing before you get the chance at a 2nd season. Inspired by traditional English gardening, we set out to create a small pot for starting plants that would be the opposite of disposable. Instead, it would be treasured. It would look beautiful in our kitchen under grow lights, instead of posing an eye sore, and have cousins larger in scale to accommodate growth and flowers and herb friends.
Paired alongside this initial inspiration, we opened up traditional American stoneware books from our reference library, and looked for profiles and details that catch the eye without crowding the vision. Simple lugs, or handles, and small stripes scratched in on the wheel, made their way onto the designs, creating a shared language.
The first three pots in the collection are the #1/2, #1, and #2.
The #1/2 is the starter pot that started it all. Perfect for seed starting for a summer garden. We also use these to try out new varieties with our son as botany experiments.
The #1 is your ideal flower pot. Scaled for pansies or violas, rosemary or basil, or a playful marigold, this pot is ideal for a patio garden or porch display. It can also be used as a mid-stage pot for vegetables or flowers that are eager to expand but not yet ready to plant out.
The #2 is about being showy. We use this wide and low pot to force bulbs in the winter, create a countertop herb garden in the kitchen with 3 or 4 varieties, like thyme, rosemary, tarragon, and parsley, or to fill with a plant friend who loves some space to sprawl, like ivy or nasturtiums.
Each is hand-thrown on the wheel in our studio from red stoneware clay and has a hole for drainage.
SHOP THE COLLECTION - #1/2, #1, #2