It's the end of December and I've started dating all my in-process pots 2017. I won't finish them until next year. Time to look back at the end of the year pots and the few interesting blooms from late December.
Massonia pustulata with great leaves and a fairly loose flower.
Massonia species from Plettenberg Bay grown from Pacific Bulb Society Seed.
Massonia species from Vleesbai, also from Pacific Bulb Society Seed. This is a second generation plant from the original seed grown specimen.
I missed a species from Addo and a jasminiflora with an interesting flower, but there are more to come. Below is a pink flowered Massonia echinata growing at the Huntington Botanic Garden.
On to the pots
Stoneware, 6 inches by 7 inches with a red glaze. You can never tell how this glaze will come out. I made this pot inn green and browns as well. I need to make a few more this January.
Two pots 4 1/2 inches by 5 inches in iron oxide stained stoneware. These always look good. The one on the right is impressed with my favorite piece of billion year old limestone.
Three more red pots, each 2 1/4 by 4 1/2 inches.
The same in a turquoise glaze.
And again in stoneware with iron oxide. The pot on the right pot was produced with a fossilized tree fern.
A seven by 4 1/2 inch square pot. I've made a few of these, still trying to find the right combination of clay and glaze. I'm pretty happy with this one.
I'm even happier with this one. There was a little less warping It is just stoneware with iron oxide, but it gets away from the shiny effect of the glaze.
Finally two pots with layered glaze. Each pot totally unpredictable, and half end up on sales tables and half in the trash.
