If 3D printing and plastic bulb pots don't appeal to you, see your
friendly neighborhood potter of the traditional, wheel-throwing variety. At
our NARGS chapter meetings in Portland, we often admire the bulbs Terry
Laskiewicz grows in the pots her partner Stan Gibson, a professional
potter, makes especially for such plants. I particularly liked seeing one
of the yellow-and-brown Fritillaria species in a pot with a coordinating
glaze. I've bought a number of Stan's deep stoneware pots and wide pans for
bulbs I need to move around rather than keeping them in my unheated bulb
house. They have tasteful, unobtrusive glazes or other surface treatments,
and big, sometimes multiple drainage holes. I've also seen some unusual
pots made by local artist/gardeners for succulents or aquatic plants,
sometimes imitating the textures and forms of the plants they hold.

For the plunged pots in the bulb house I use either unglazed terracotta
(the harder ones from Italy are best), or plastic mesh pots. The best
brand of the latter is Finofil, which is hard to get in the USA but readily
available in the UK. Lately I've been searching through the various kinds
of mesh pots sold for hydroponic growing, available through "indoor
gardening" suppliers, which have become almost as ubiquitous as shops
selling the product of indoor gardening since Oregon legalized it.

Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA

On 9/14/2018 6:18 AM, David Pilling wrote:

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