Art Pottery

Vase Pot

Haeger Small Royal Blue Pot/Vase with sticker $9.99

Country French Pottery – Terre e Provence – 1 Collectible Vases & Pots $59.00

Vintage Vase FANTASTIC Small Vase OR Pot Signed PRETTY $6.99

vintage VASE FANTASTIC SMALL POT signed PRETTY BLUE $6.99

LARGE PEACOCK POT/VASE CLAY/POTTERY?? mothers day gift sale sale vibrant colors $56.99

Handpainted Delfts Blauw Vase/Flower Pot-Made in Holland $8.50

Studio Pottery Braunschweig Pot Bowl Vase Cream Teal $16.00

1968 Violet Gold Moriage Handpainted Nippon Chocolate Pot Vase nippon unmarked $300.00

Red Wing USA Ceramic Flower Pot Vase Green Lined in Yellow Pottery $12.99

Vintage Marked DEL CORONADO NASCO PRODUCT Vase Flower pot porcelain $7.99

Small Ceramic Pot/Vase by Pat Lester – signed by artist $12.00

Jose Loya Signed Mexican Pottery Pot Small Vase 3″ tall $9.99

Green Ceramic Vase/flower Pot Made by “White Pottery VG” (very nice) $6.25

GORGEOUS PIECE DATED 1916 ROSENTHALE ROSENTHAL SELB-BAVARIA POT/VASE DECO $19.99

NEMADJI U.S.A. Native American Art Pot/Vase $5.47

VINTAGE VASE ..GIRL WITH DOG..Marked Japan / FLOWER POT $19.99

Helen Pottery Pot Vase Pink With Flowers vintage!!!! Nice!!! $14.99

Nice Haeger Pottery brown cuspidor spitoon Pot Planter Vase Shaped Bowl R-82 $14.99

Lot of Marshall Studios Gordon Martz Pottery Mid Century Vase Bowl Tray Pot $115.00

Large Art Pottery Painted EGG Gilded Floral Toed Footed Vase Urn Pot Planter 11″ $295.00

Art Pottery Hand Crafted Stylized Decorative Elephant Pot / Planter or Vase $6.99

Antique / Vtg Dutch Flo Blue Handwerk Fluted Spooner Pot /Crown Marked Vase bowl $18.99

Mccoy Usa VASE FLOWER POT PUMPKIN ORANGE Home Decor $29.99

Vintage Antique BERKSHIRE Art Pottery Planter Vase POT in 3 leg CAST IRON STAND $23.95

►NICE◄ Hand Painted “Blue Floral” Clay Flower Vase Pot◄ $19.55

Vintage Usa Shawnee Art Pottery Flower Pot Planters & Vase $28.00

HAEGER AMERICAN ART POTTERY LIGHT PLUM GLAZE CHINESE BRUSH POT Pillow Vase 1984 $22.49

Handmade Studio Art Pottery Vase pot urn “ashes of old lovers” $14.00

STUDIO Pottery Art Stoneware Vase POT PLANTER,SIGNED, flower arrangement R4359 $40.00

ChingWenArts STUDIO POTTERY FINE Art Stoneware VASE POT , SIGNED $25.00

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Container Gardening Ideas for Pots and Planting Herbs

For container gardening ideas, scan the internet, the library or a bookstore. The challenge is to come up with a lovely container garden plan. There are a widespread collection of containers available for your container garden. These range in size from small-scale house-plant pots to sizeable boxes and planters. Equally varied are the materials from which they are made. These include wood, glass, clay, aluminum, bamboo, straw, plastic, fiberglass, Terra Cotta, tin, cast iron, zinc, copper, and brass, each with select advantages and disadvantages. What you choose will depend on availability, price, background, and attraction not to mention the characteristics of the gardening pots.

Here are some container gardening ideas. In addition to run-of-the-mill circular pots and tubs, there are modern and ultra-modern forms such as square, rectangular, triangular, hexagonal, and octagonal. Also eligible are old iron kitchen pots, kettles, pails, jugs, casks, vases, crocks, jam tubs, barrels and nail kegs, Japanese fish tubs, aged sinks, bathtubs, bamboo soy tubs. There are novelty containers such as driftwood, wheelbarrows, donkey carts, spinning wheels and boxes attached to a roadside mail container. There are also bird cages, decorative well heads, animal figures, and Strawberry jars. Woven baskets may be used to conceal unattractive containers. Even tar paper pots, handled by garden centers and florists are worthy if painted or veiled to upgrade their exterior. Any of these can be used in your container gardening ideas.

Where to find your container supplies? Begin with what you possess. If you explore cellars or basements, attics, garages, and sheds, you will doubtless encounter objects of interest. Old-fashioned pots and kettles, usually sold in antique shops at rural auctions or observed at old New England inns, have much attraction.

Different container garden ideas to ponder are old cookie and bean jars, pickle and other types of crocks, wash tubs, coal pails, jardinières, and ceramic bowls. For drainage, scatter a thick layer of substantial pebbles or shattered pieces of pots or bricks at the bottom and then moisten plants with care. In substantial containers, drainage material should be many inches thick. Where rainfall is hefty, be certain to keep garden containers without drainage outlets on porches, below awnings or the under sizable eaves of house. With pails and old galvanized wash tubs, holes can be easily punctured at the bottom.

Plants in containers without drainage openings stay wet longer. Some of these—crocks, jardinières and cookie jars—are massive enough to be secure against the elements in exterior container gardening.

What constitutes the perfect container for your container garden ideas? A container needs to be attractive, even if it is not an object of art. It should be sturdy and lasting and able to resist all kinds of weather. This is especially true of the substantial sizes which ofttimes continue outdoors all year around. In the North, alternate icy and thawing is a predicament in winter (and could generate cracking); in blazing climates, intensive heat, humidity, and moisture are to be considered (and could cause fading). And in semiarid areas, there is the impact of searing sun to keep your attention, another source of fading. All these things need be kept in mind when coming up with your container gardening design.

The perfect container must be vast enough to hold a sizeable quantity of soil. It should have super drainage facilities through holes or various openings at the bottom or sides. It must not rust, at least in a single season, and it should have a wide enough base to perch firmly wherever placed. Further, it needs to be heavy enough to withstand average winds. In severe storms, like hurricanes and tornadoes, movable containers can be shifted to interim safety. All of these things should be factored in when you are coming up with your container gardening ideas.

Resistance to rot is another requisite. Wooden containers—except those made of rot-resistant Redwood, Western Cedar, and Southern Red Cypress—will require treatment with a wood preservative. Except for lifelong containers, the capability to move your container garden is another quality, and sometimes a safety precaution, of portable container gardening. Sizable boxes and planters can be equipped with wheels, and garden centers have redwood tubs that perch on platforms with wheels. An opening in the platform corresponds to the hole in the tub. Sizeable containers without wheels can be pushed on iron or wooden rollers by two or more people; however, if you live in an area inclined to severe storms it is best to keep your containers small-scaled.

Smaller containers are ideal for cultivating herb container gardens. If you plan to plant an herb container garden be imaginative. Here are some container garden ideas for herbs that go great together.

* For an Italian selection try Sweet Basil, Italian Parsley, Oregano, Marjoram and Thyme.

* For a pleasing scented container use Lavender, Rose Scented Geranium, Lemon Balm, Lemon Thyme, and Pineapple Sage.

* For utterly extravagant salads try Garlic Chives, Rocket, Salad Burnet, Parsley, Celery.

* And to say “We love French Cooking!” use Tarragon, Chervil, Parsley, Chives and Sage.

Any of these will liven up your meal and please your family.

So these are just a few container gardening ideas. Get out a pad of paper and make up a container garden plot that will add to the view and conceivably even the palate.

Happy Container Gardening!

Copyright © 2006 Mary Hanna All Rights Reserved.

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Mary Hanna is an aspiring herbalist who lives in Central Florida. This allows her to grow gardens inside and outside year round. She has published other articles on Cruising, Gardening and Cooking. Visit her websites at http://www.GardeningHerb.com and http://www.ContainerGardeningSecrets.com To read more of her articles go to http://www.ArticleBazaar.net

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What is the gel stuff that you put in a vase to hold water for flowers called?

I am trying to find out the name of the little gel crystals that you put in a vase or pot and it waters the flowers. It comes in different colors I think too.

Are you talking about Cracked Ice? It is a polymer that absorbs 200 times it weight in water. It only comes in the original color, but it can be tinted. The flowers inserted in this gel, will take on the color of the gel after a period of time. You can find it in the wedding section of Michale’s

Throwing a big Clay Pottery vase on a potters wheel quickly demonstration demo how to pot throw