Our Long Running Ceramic Planter Argument
A delivery driver once stood in the doorway holding a box marked FRAGILE in three languages and said, completely unprompted, “you lot really do love your pots, don’t you,” and…
The Ceramic Plant Pot We Overthought
Someone on the team put in eleven hours of research on a plant pot. Eleven. There is a spreadsheet, we have seen the spreadsheet, it has tabs. Drainage hole diameter,…
Real Flowers in a Ceramic Vase: The Glaze Question
The internet’s whole vibe on ceramic vases is that they’re basically foolproof. You buy a vase, you fill it with water, you jam some tulips in, done, this is the…
Vases Without Flowers: What I Have Tried
I bought a bunch of ranunculus from the corner store on Clement Street for fourteen dollars, got them home, cut the stems at an angle like you’re supposed to, put…
Sides of a TV Stand: Lamps, Plants and Storage
I own fourteen things right now whose entire job in life is to sit on either side of my TV stand and look like they didn’t cost anything, when at…
Ideas for the Top of a Wardrobe: Baskets, Boxes and Plants
I was up on a step stool in my own bedroom on a Sunday morning, not doing anything productive, just finally dealing with the top of my wardrobe because my…
Vase Ideas for People Who Dont Like Flowers
My wife walked into the kitchen, looked at the big glass vase sitting on the counter, looked at me, and said, “There’s nothing in that.” There was something in it.…
Weighting a Vase of Fake Flowers
My wife walked past the console table in our entryway last Tuesday, stopped dead, picked up the tall glass vase with the faux eucalyptus stems in it, and said, “Why…
Making Fake Flowers Look Real in a Clear Vase
Okay so here’s the reputation fake flowers in a clear vase have, and it’s earned, I’m not going to pretend it isn’t. Cheap stems, cloudy plastic water, that one gerbera…
Vase Shapes That Suit Artificial Flowers
I counted them last week. Actually counted, walked room to room with a notepad like a lunatic, and the number came out at twenty three. Twenty three vases in a…