Quite often, if you want your plants to burgeon, you need to cossett them into life by starting their lives off as seeds in a pot. Here are some Victorian plant pots from Harlow Carr Gardens that must have chivvied generations of plants into health and colourfulness.
For Becky’s #SquaresRenew
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
Lovely old plant pots, Margaret. So much more pleasing than plastics.
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Aren’t they just?
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Except they are not always frost proof.
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😑🩵
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Fair point!
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Terracotta pots are the best!
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Definitely!
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I love my terracotta pots, wish I had some this size as most of mine are the tiny ones
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All sizes welcome here!
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I love terracota pots. Sadly, many garden centres are in love with the plastic variety.
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Cheap, but not cheerful 😦
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There’s something about terracotta pots. And when they’re found in such a place as this they’re all the more beautiful.
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Characterfully distressed …
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I love seeing stacks of old terracotta pots, and covet the ones Minty Don has, but good ones can be atrociously expensive. I have a good collection of bowls for my spring bulbs and pelargoniums always look best in terracotta.
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They do. Love your typo. It suits him!
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Blummin predictive text!
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😉
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I do love a terracotta pot! So much better than plastic…
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Quite right,Sue.
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I always have flash backs to the 16 to 19 year old ponderer when I see mention of Harlow Carr, having lived along Penny Pot Lane!
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I love those pots too! 😁
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We all seem to want them!
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Yay, I like this and I love using it.
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Excellent!
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I too love these old terracotta pots – and I can never look at them without thinking of Bill and Ben (and thereby showing my age!)
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Haha! Good point. I rarely saw them as we didn’t have TV.
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Nor did we, but my grandfather who lived downstairs (we had the top flat) had one and I would go down there for Watch with Mother 🙂
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Happy days!
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Love the shape of the front center pot!
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Handsome, eh?
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I love the layers of colour in this photo. The old wood and the ?water marks on those gorgeous old pots. Bernie
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They were definitely photogenic.
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Victorian, wow! They have survived well. And Sarah’s comment made me think of Bill and Ben too. And Little Weed of course.
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Unlike Bill and Ben et al, the pots have survived well.
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Your photo brought many wonderful memories of being in the garden with my mother!!! Thank you Margaret!
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That’s an easy way for me to conjure happy memories. Result!
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I’d love to have these pots, Margaret! I was looking for flower pots yesterday. 😊
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Sadly, you can’t ge your hands on these.
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😌
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