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I just went and fetched them Clare my wifes ok never moaned the lady broke one getting a plant out , so ive only ended up with three all in all i just need to decide what acers i am putting in them

 

Very smart design on them Martin...never saw any like that at the garden centres I've brought pots from and they should really look lovely mate

 

So pleased you went and got the pots @martin-f . They are just lovely, and even with one having got broken those three together make a fine set! I wonder when and where they were made. Tried doing a bit of googling but couldn't come up with anything - I guess identifying whether the characters are Chinese or Japanese would be a start....

 

I recently bought two hydrangea in two separate pots, for five pounds. Got them home to find that there are actually two different types in each pot. So four flowers for a fiver, well chuffed !

 

Hi @Petemz to GC mate and nice to have you with us.

You've done well there for £5 and finding you have four in total nice one...I also have four that are thickening out lovely and I noticed today flower buds are forming

 

Thank you Clare, ive searched and searched but cant find any the same/remotely similar i cant see anything on the pots, someone might look in and recognise them/tell us what the writing says if anything some of it looks like little men to me ?.

 

Martin I mentioned i'd never seen pots like them before mate..they're really nice and very unusual

 

Well today hubby took me up to Bridgnorth to the 3 garden centres I brought 6 plants and to Multi purpose composts...5 plants for the back and one for in the front garden between my two Salix's.

Front Garden plant



Five back garden plants










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I haven't visited this thread for a long while.

Today I bought a few plants for my garden in progress. I'll repeat myself again by saying I wasn't going to have roses in this garden but.....

…...four Rugosa's 'Alba'. That now makes four with another three roses to follow later in the year.



I'm experimenting with plants to see what will survive up here - so one of each.

Heuchera


Glumicalyx 'Flanagannii' This caught my eye for front of bed. Cuttings take well apparently.




Chiastophyllum 'Oppositifolium' The nursery owner pulled these out of his own flower bed wall and gave them to me free of charge as he didn't have any potted up for sale. About a dozen little plants there.


The same plant in my last garden, and although tiny they have a big name, give a big display and multiply well. One of my favourites.

 

Sheal I see what you mean that's really nice mate and yellow is a good stunner for any garden it stands out a mile ...how your having to experiment with plants and survival we did it here plus having the dog at the time being male he also helped kill many off

@JWK as helped me and we've found out my garden is acid soil with what plants hold well

 

I need to bring some colour into this garden Gail as everything apart from the surrounding wild Broom (currently flowering) is green. I have to experiment not only with the climate but with the soil here. I've gardened on clay and sandy soil before but not on sandy loam which I have here.

John is a great gardener and has a lot of knowledge. His advice is always spot on.

 

Sheal I don't know if this bit of info would help you on plants best suited to sandy loam...off to mate

Ideal Plants for Sandy Soil
Of course, the best way to growing in sandy soil is still in planting sand-loving or dry condition-tolerant plants. Here’s a list:

• Trees: eastern white pine and red cedars.
• Common shrubs: Japenese barberry, Siberian pea shrub, flowering quince, gray dogwood, common smoke tree, and privets.
• Ornamental vines: trumpet vine, Oriental and American bittersweet, winter creeper, trumpet and Hall’s Japanese honeysuckle, and hardy grapes.
• Blooms: blanket flower, California poppy, cleome, crape myrtle, and lavender.
• Other plants: artemisia, euphorbia, oregano, perennial flax, Russian sage, Rosemary, thyme, and tulip.

 

Thank you Gail but most of these aren't suitable for one reason or another.

 

Did you look at the underneath of the pots @martin-f? Sometimes there is a maker's mark... otherwise yes the best place to start would be by identifying the writing. It does look to me like Chinese or Japanese but it could also as you say just be motifs made up for decoration, perhaps by a European maker.

If you want to follow it up, do you have a local auction house/ museum/ oriental antiques place you could ask? Or failing that you could always send photos to one of the big auction houses, or the V&A. They remind me of the kind of big decorative glazed pots that Victorians liked to place in their conservatories. Some of those were imported - I have seen big Chinese ones with dragons - others were made in the UK but with oriental motifs. My best guess is that your pots are more recent than that, probably mid-twentieth century, and Japanese. But it is only a guess....

[Disclaimer: I used to be a V&A curator myself but pots were not my area of expertise!]

 

Sheal I do hope you find plants that will suite it and to your own liking