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Five stoneware planters with plants on pale concrete porch steps

Issue no. 1 · Autumn

Pots with
a bit of weight

Eighteen stoneware pieces for tables, floors and walls, in five glazes. Most have a drainage hole and a saucer.

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What they're made of

Clay, glaze, heat

  1. 01

    Clay body

    Stoneware — a dense clay fired at high temperature, so it rings when you tap it and doesn't soak up water the way terracotta does.

  2. 02

    Glaze

    Five finishes: raw clay, oat, ash grey, iron speckle and charcoal. Each firing comes out a little different.

  3. 03

    Foot

    The base ring is left unglazed and sanded so it won't scratch a table.

Close-up of speckled cream glaze meeting raw clay at the foot of a pot

Our story

We kept buying plastic pots and hiding them

Cheap pots crack, fade and tip over. Nice pots tend to have no drainage, so you end up keeping the plant in its nursery pot and hiding it inside. We wanted heavy, plain pots with a hole and a saucer that matches.

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Field Guide

All entries

3 min read

Choosing a pot size

One size up. Not three.

4 min read

Holes, saucers, and the pots without them

Why most of ours have a hole, and what to do with the ones that don't.

3 min read

Raw clay vs. glaze

What the finish changes, and what it doesn't.

From the catalog

Six to start with

All 18 pieces
Footed Urn stoneware planter in iron speckle glaze, on a stone block against a plaster wall

Footed Urn

$42.00

6″ wide × 7″ tall

Iron Speckle

Column stoneware planter in charcoal glaze, on a stone block against a plaster wall

Column

$112.00

9″ wide × 14″ tall

Charcoal

Lowe Bowl stoneware planter in oat matte glaze, on a stone block against a plaster wall

Lowe Bowl

$34.00

8″ wide × 4″ tall

Oat Matte

Asked often

Do the pots have drainage holes?

All table and floor pots do. Table pots include a matching saucer. Hanging pieces have no hole — see the Field Guide note on watering them.

Can I leave them outside?

On a covered porch, yes. We don't recommend leaving them out through a hard freeze: water in the clay can expand and crack it.

Will each pot look exactly like the photo?

Close, not identical. Glazes vary a little from firing to firing, and Iron Speckle is different on every pot.

How are they packed?

In molded pulp and a double-wall box. If something arrives broken, send us a photo within 7 days and we'll replace it.

Where do you ship?

Within the United States only, to all 50 states.

Potting, in four steps

Hands settling a snake plant into a ribbed stoneware pot
  1. 1

    Water the day before

    Moist roots slide out of a nursery pot more easily.

  2. 2

    Cover the hole

    A square of mesh or a coffee filter keeps soil in and lets water out.

  3. 3

    Set the height

    Add soil until the top of the root ball sits about an inch below the rim.

  4. 4

    Fill and water

    Fill around the sides, press lightly, water until it runs into the saucer, then empty the saucer.

New glazes, by email

About once a month: new pieces, restocks, a Field Guide entry. Email only — text alerts are a separate sign-up.