I love the concrete pot in the latest Moosey entry.

7 Aug '07 7:25 am

Sewer pipe? Not to my eye. I'd get one in a quick minute if I weren't now addicted to getting tons of cheap pots of every sort at the discount place a bit South of here. They are so cheap I have to spend extra just so I can save plenty.

I checked Moosey's math on the number of hours required in a country garden and I think the equation can be balanced by adding the occasional labor of a small crew. I used to aspire to do every last thing myself in my garden but I am so over that sentiment.

7 Aug '07 11:34 am

Mark, you made me go and admire at once!! You meant the latest journal of Moosey's Journals on the main web front page, right ?

This is an adorable pot, but is it really concrete? It has some pebbles attached on its surface that give it a very special decorative finess, non?? This sort of pot has an island style, inspired by waters, sea...

7 Aug '07 5:11 pm

Doesn't it look like a roadcut, you know, where different layers of rock are exposed? I'd take it.

9 Aug '07 9:34 am

Some of the pieces on the pot side are paua shell - it's coloured iridescent blues, turquoise, and greens - just like the colours of the tropical sea. Lisa! Paua is a shellfish - New Zealand only? Not sure. Complete shells used to be used, in the dim dark days, as ashtrays - well in the student flats I lived in they did! eeek! Now thankfully paua turns up only on jewellery, or buttons, or pots!

Mark, I'm still debating about that sewer pipe - at the moment I've gone for quantity over dubious quality and bought four Vietnamese pots instead. That concrete pot in the pix sits at the corner of my house, and cost me huge dollars last year, from a trendy cafe-nursery. If and when I buy the wretched sewer pipe... it's far too expensive, that's the problem!

9 Aug '07 9:43 am

I thought you were talking dismissively about the big pot in the photo - which I like very much. We used to be able to buy and fairly cheaply 3 foot sections of concrete or terra cotta used to line chimney exhaust and other things. Now they sell them at the nurseries so you know you're not going to get a great price anymore. Sewer pipe, hey? Perhaps they can be used as a kind of working man's column? Anything like that would be pricey here too.

I love the concrete pot in the latest Moosey entry.

I love the concrete pot in the latest Moosey entry.

It is lovely , indeed!

Hi Liza

Pots

Well that makes more sense.