My daughter Noe got me interested in succulents in early 2016 and ever since we've been on a quest!!! Naturally with so many new plants around, we needed pots to put all of them into. The typical pots you can buy from the big box stores just don't have character that suits these incredibly interesting plants. So we've both been making our own pottery. And now we're branching out into other plants - Aeroids, Orchids and Citrus!!! Check out what our green thumbs have been doing!!!
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Turning Back to Making Pots Again
As you can probably tell from the pictures I've been posting (which can be categorized as incremental growth shots), we've gotten caught up on gardening and are just in a maintenance mode (going through the plants daily to make sure we take out any mealie bugs, scale or any other anomalies). With that, we've started to turn our attention to the activity that comprises the other half of this blog - making planting vessels. This is our second batch of clay work this year.
I forgot to take pictures of the finished products (I'll do that when I get home), but I knocked out one square bonsai pot, one 'U' pot, and two 'Totoro' plant props (used to hold up plants that send out long runners). Noe made a rectangular bonsai pot with added embellishments. UPDATE - here they are:
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