Terracotta, glazed and wooden
Pots and planters
Frost-proof terracotta from Italy, glazed pots from a Vietnamese pottery we have used for twenty years, and larch planters built to your measurements in our shed.
A pot has one job in a Welsh winter, which is not to split. We leave ours out on the hill all year, and if a line has cracked it does not get reordered.
The terracotta is frost-proof, hand-thrown clay from a family pottery near Florence, and we guarantee it against frost for five years. Cheap terracotta is fired at a low temperature, drinks water, and comes apart in a hard January; ours rings when you tap it.
Glazed pots come in eleven colours and are stacked by size in the barn. Bring a photograph of your door if you are matching it, or take a pot home on approval and bring it back within a fortnight if it looks wrong.
Gethin builds larch planters to order in the shed behind the barn, any length up to 2.4 metres, lined and drilled. A two-metre planter takes about two weeks. Once you have the size, the soil calculator works out what it will take to fill it.
What you get
- Frost-proof terracotta with a five-year frost guarantee
- Eleven glazed colours, to take home on approval
- Larch planters built to order up to 2.4 metres
- Pot feet, crocks and saucers at the till
What it costs
Terracotta from £4, glazed from £14, made-to-measure larch planters from £85. Prices are on every label; the price list has the common ones, and the soil calculator works out how much to fill anything.
Questions about pots
Do I need crocks in the bottom?
No, despite what your nan said. Good compost and a clear drainage hole do the job. Lift the pot on feet so the hole cannot block; that is what actually saves plants in wet winters.
Can you plant a pot up for me?
Yes. Choose the pot and tell us the place. We plant it, water it and you collect it in a week for the price of the plants, the compost and £5.
Open every day but three, on the hill above Bedwas.
Bring a photograph of the bed or a leaf in a sandwich bag. Free parking for sixty cars, soup in the lean-to and a van for anything that will not fit in yours.