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All About the Flower Pot Shop

A few years ago, while flipping through a copy of Architectural Digest, we noticed a glazed flowerpot with hand-carved decorations in the background of a photo. As we were immediately impressed with its crisp form and elegant beauty, we ripped the photo from the magazine and tacked it to the door of the refrigerator under a magnet from a Chinese carry-out place. We began to search our local garden centers for pots with a similar look. We found lots of flower pots, but nothing like the pot in the photo. We checked hardware stores, national retailers, and nurseries, and kept coming up dry. We learned a lot about flower pots in the process (probably more than anyone ever needs to know), and took our search online. After months of hunting, we were still empty-handed, and the photo still hung on our refrigerator door -- taunting us every time we reached for the baloney.


Finally, our online treasure hunt paid off, as we found River Market Pottery, the manufacturer and importer of these pots. They directed us to a retailer in our region which had recently begun to carry their products, and although we didn't find the exact pot that inspired our search, we found several others which immediately became permanent additions to our yard.

We were blown away with the depth and intricacies of the decorations. The craftsmanship was miles beyond anything we had found during our quest – each pot was really an individual work of art, with its own personality and mood. The pots really brought a new dimension to the shrubs and flowers we planted in them, as though we were combining two beautiful things together to form one, greater beautiful unit.

As the seasons rolled on, we became even more impressed with our pots. During the fire and brimstone temperatures of the Midwestern summer the glazes neither faded nor cracked. During that especially wet fall, our pots remained sturdy and intact as we headed for winter. After taking just a few simple precautions to freeze-proof the pots, we swallowed hard and left our pots to face the cold, ice, and snow on their own.

We were amazed that the manufacturer’s promises held true—the pots survived without damage! This was the moment when we realized that we had found a truly special product and the seed for The Flower Pot Shop was planted in our minds.

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We believe in the power of unique. 

* We believe in individuality and in providing a means to express it.

* We believe that the key to creating amazing spaces is to fill them with beautiful items.

* We believe that beautiful individually hand-crafted items are preferable to mass-produced anonymous ones.

* We believe that yards deserve beauty and color 365 days a year.

* We believe in providing high quality, distinctive items at prices which are competitive with those charged for the inferior products found at national retailers.

* We work hard to find sources of flower pots, vases, and planters that meet our high standards.

* Almost all of the items we sell are created and decorated by hand.

* Almost all of the flowerpots we sell are completely winter-safe and freeze-proof. They are made from high-fired stoneware clay--the strongest, most durable ceramic product on the market.

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