Decorative Ceramic or Plastic Pots

[Wendy76]

Does anyone have a resource for inexpensive decorative ceramic or plastic pots (without drainage holes) to use with 5" clear orchid pots?


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[estación seca]

Check out Ross, Marshalls and Michael's stores. Also thrift / second hand stores.

[Wendy76]

Originally Posted by estación seca

Check out Ross, Marshalls and Michael's stores. Also thrift / second hand stores.

Great suggestions! Thank you!


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[estación seca]

A member of our cactus society goes to thrift shops and finds interesting containers - serving dishes, cups, ceramic containers and the like - and drills holes with a ceramic bit.

[Subrosa]

Thrift stores are the best for such things, but yard/garage sales and flea markets are other very good resources. The selection is better at a decent thrift store but the prices will normally be higher as well. If there are any in your area check out dollar stores as well. Take one of the pots you want to cover with you and keep an open mind and you could come up with something really nice. I have plants in sugar bowls, mugs, vases and on a terra cotta wine chiller mostly bought from second hand sources.

[Subrosa]

Originally Posted by estación seca

A member of our cactus society goes to thrift shops and finds interesting containers - serving dishes, cups, ceramic containers and the like - and drills holes with a ceramic bit.

Bet he'd like this one I picked up a while back:

[Wendy76]

What fun ideas! I tried online with no luck. Anxious to go out looking!


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[estación seca]

Originally Posted by Subrosa

Bet he'd like this one I picked up a while back:

Don't let the cactus hear me say it... I would save that one for tequila.

[Subrosa]

Originally Posted by estación seca

Don't let the cactus hear me say it... I would save that one for tequila.

Funny, I'm saving it for a L. williamsii.......

[estación seca]

Cactus and succulent societies have gone nuts over "staging" plants for shows, putting each one into a very expensive container with just the right top dressing, rocks, etc. They have categories for "bonsai" succulents where ribbons are often awarded to plants that, while definitely manipulated into strange contortions, rarely follow the tenets of bonsai. I am not interested in this at all; I only care about the plant. Nowadays a beautiful plant in a plastic nursery pot is often completely overlooked by judges in favor of an inferior plant in an expensive piece of baked clay.

I really like that AOS judging is supposed to be about the flower, not the plant (except for the CCM of course.) In US cactus and succulent judging the staging gets up to 25% of the points, depending on the show rules. The British C&S society rules request judging of just the plant.

To my mind the staged succulents should have their own category, and most of the show should be about plants, even if in ugly plastic pots. When I'm asked to judge a C&S show I follow the rules, but I make an effort to get the other judges to look at the plants before looking at the staging.

This drive to exhibiting elaborately staged succulents has largely come from nurserymen who sell expensive pots and pre-staged, ready-to-show succulents.

I exhibit at the masters level. I don't care about ribbons nor trophies any more, so on the rare occasion I bother entering, I often often put my plants into pieces of junk I pick up at thrift shops, and top dress with stuff like fluorescent aquarium gravel. Once I entered a dish garden that was in a screaming pink and white striped, 2' / 61cm diameter plastic laundry basin. I arranged a number of smaller cacti around a Barbie doll with a tiny beach towel and beach umbrella, with white play sand. Yes, Barbie had little sunglasses.