Sunday 5 May 2013

What does London have against pots

I mentioned before how hard it is to find certain types of pots. I thought this was a UK thing, but lately am noticing it is a London thing.  Visiting a few nurseries on my recent road trip, they all had lovely succulent bowls. Different material, sizes, you name it they had it.

It must be new stock and they are back in fashion, so I visited a few local nurseries. Nothing. The usual stuff, not one nice bowl.  I could understand them being more expensive, or less sizes, but nothing.

Thankfully I bought one on my road trip which is now all planted up with alpines. It doesn't look that bad does it?  So come on London, get your act together and start stocking some nice bowls!

5 comments:

  1. Gorgeous bowl!... Seems like u need a trip to the states... lots of bowls here...

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    1. Thank you. Hope you make the most of them.

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    2. the place i go to, they make a trip to Mexico and bring back loads of bowls... I've got some that have an 'zen' look as well as the colorful hand painted ones... my favorite are the cobalt blue ones...I will say, u definitely know how to arrange your succulents well in those bowls!.

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  2. Great points on lack of containers - here in Albuquerque, that is true, too. And the few who do use containers / bowls / pots often use low annuals only in them, nothing stunning like we can do!

    Perhaps it's provincialism and getting stuck in not exploring the better garden possibilities? (hearing London do that helps me not feel so bad, since a saying in the US is, London today = New York in 10 years, the rest of the US in 20 years!)

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    1. Strange that you find the same, it obviously is a regional thing everywhere.

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