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Pottering Around With Pots of Plenty

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    • Publish Date: Mar 19 2018 11:38AM
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    • Updated Date: Mar 19 2018 11:42AM
Pottering Around With Pots of Plenty

Your garden pots are getting arty and fancy. Hanging plants and holders; tea cups to grow terrariums (aka bottle gardens) are the ultimate low-maintenance way of growing indoor plants. While traditional terracotta remains the most popular choice for plant holders, everyday items like shoes, plastic bottles and crockery are being repurposed to grow your greens.

HOW TO PICK 

  • When picking a pot, make sure it complements the plant inside it and the room you keep it in. This season, get some eclectic blues or oranges or go for a green-blue Mediterranean look – especially if you are putting together a group of plants.
  • Think of colours and shapes that work well together and be bold with design. One of the key trends for this season is about unusual combinations of patterns and textures. Pick eclectic mid-century ceramic pots and vases. If you want to get funky, use some old bottles, tea cups and plastic shoe planters.
  • This is the best time of the year to try some plant-scaping before the summer sets in. For cheerful containers, you can do some DIY with powdered pigments in different hues. Bowl planters look good kept in the kitchen or bathroom. M
  • acramé plant hangers are made from rope or woven yarn and act as a decorative sling for pots. Even fashion a fancy herb garden with some funky small pots.
  • You can keep a big concrete pot with light-coloured plant to highlight crisp white accents of your patio, which helps lighten your outdoor space.

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Long before pottery became a fashionable/therapeutic pastime of the arty-farty, Bangalore’s Pottery Town was already rocking the trade. A trip to Pottery Town, an age-old settlement in the Cantonment area, will bring you face-to-face with a part of the city that still oozes rustic charm and reminds of a bygone time.

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Narrow streets are lined with small houses on both sides, and you’ll often see a goat or two chomping on grass in the compounds or in the streets. Move along and you’ll find entire porches and a good part of the busy street covered with every kind of earthenware. Lines of fresh-off-the-wheel creations, still baking in the sun, sit next to ready-to-sell ware. If you are a gardener, then there are pots and planters of various shapes and sizes that you can take home.

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If you are into DIY, this is just the place for you. You can let your creativity run wild on the plain looking vases, kullads, palm-sized diyas, and miniature pots and pans that you can find in almost every shop here. You can also poke your head around the doors of workshops and catch a glimpse of potters spinning their magic on the wheel.

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Depending on the type of flowers and plants you have, your pots will vary in size and material. Many are ceramic or terracotta and can be prone to unsightly cracks or chips, especially during a move. If they are large, they will likely be extremely heavy, so make sure you do not move these cumbersome planters by yourself!

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To wrap and pack your pots, you will need: Packing paper or corrugated cardboard Bubble wrap Packing tape Packing peanuts Large moving boxes Cell boxes Plastic stretch wrap

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For small to medium pots: Crumple a piece of packing paper into a ball and stuff inside the pot Lay the pot on its side on top of a piece of corrugated cardboard, or a few layers of packing paper (on the edge of the paper) Roll the pot continuously until you reach the other end of the paper or cardboard Tuck any excess paper or cardboard into the open portion of the pot, and fold down any excess paper on the bottom of the pot

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Stretch plastic wrap over the open portion of the pot and wrap continuously from top to bottom, then side to side If the pot is small enough, you can slide it into a section of a cell box. Otherwise, you can wrap it in a layer of bubble wrap and secure with packing tape for extra protection, then place into a regular cardboard moving box

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