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Handygirl
Citizen
Username: Handygirl
Post Number: 20
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 10:36 am: |     |
Does anyone know of a good place to buy medium and large pots and urns for patio and yard use, specifically nice terra cotta, stone and metal. I watch HGTV and see these amazing places in California (dam_ HGTV with all of their programs based in CA!) that have such a huge selection, and am looking for a place in NJ that can offer me a similar nirvana. Thanks.
Handygirl |
millie
Citizen
Username: Millie
Post Number: 89
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 6:07 pm: | |
There's a good place in Montclair called World Pottery, offering many different sizes, materials. Here's a link, so you can get some idea of what they carry: world pottery |
millie
Citizen
Username: Millie
Post Number: 90
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 6:11 pm: | |
Oy, try this! http:/www.worldpottery.com |
Lydia
Citizen
Username: Lydial
Post Number: 228
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 8:56 pm: | |
World Pottery is terrific! A second vote for them - also very child-friendly despite all the tippy pots and fragile stuff.
The staff is so sweet, and the owner is unbelievably calm - the first time I went there my (then 3-year-old) broke a huge (pricey) china Swan - loud and shattered all over the place. I offered to pay and vamoose, he wouldn't let me pay for it and somehow convinced my daughter that he'd wanted to get rid of that swan for a long time and hoped she was OK. I felt terrible, but he was sincere.
I go there regularly (sans kid) - they are helpful about bringing everything out to the car and drilling drain holes in cache pots, etc. A beautiful selection of pots from little English pinch pots for seedlings to huge planters that take two people to carry out. |
Maplewoody
Citizen
Username: Maplewoody
Post Number: 491
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 9:13 pm: | |
Try Parker Nursery (off RT 22) at 1325 Terrill Rd in Scotch Plains. They have the largest selection around. They also have the largest rose selection, and many greenhouses you can wander through! They also have the BIGGEST selection of Plant products assembled under one roof that I have seen!
www.etera.com |
Maplewoody
Citizen
Username: Maplewoody
Post Number: 492
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 9:17 pm: | |
Just a note, with our winter temps, you cannot leave terra cotta & ceramic pots outdoors, or they'll crack in the freezing weather!
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Handygirl
Citizen
Username: Handygirl
Post Number: 25
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 10:03 am: | |
Thanks for the great suggestions. I'll take a trip to World Pottery and Parker Nursery this weekend! Also, I've been doing some terra cotta research and there is a type of terra cotta that claims to be freeze/winter resistent. Seibert and Rice (http://www.seibert-rice.com/), for instance, claims to have terra cotta that will withstand our winters, AND they are based in Short Hills (although they only do mail order business). Seibert pots are stunning, but quite expensive. So, I'm off to look for excellent pots. Thank you all.
Handygirl |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 2849
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 11:36 am: | |
J & M Plants on Main Street in Madison. They have nice antiques too. |
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