Oh!, can I join the lusting clan! My local GC has some wonderful salt glazed, humungeous pots, of all shapes, which I drool over every time I go there.
I do have plastic "terracotta" pots too as they are much easier to move around. Otherwise we'd need a pot lifter like Monty's and, given we have moved to a milder climate with shorter winters I rather hoped the chore of moving pots in and out of shelter to cope with winter was no longer needed. Big glazed pots are good too and no worries about them exploding or flaking in bad weather. Being dropped by OH is a whole different problem.
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I recently brought two huge ones from local GC, they are plastic but the colouring is good and I hope without my glasses on and when in their new place they will look good 😊 thirty pounds each which I thought was pretty good
Recently I did buy two very large, grey, textured, plastic containers, turned one upside down, balanced the other one on top of it and made a birdbath. It looks quite good and I could never have made it with terracotta pots.
However, the birds have completely ignored their deluxe bathroom facilities!
Dont know how big you’re thinking but Homebase do 43cm terracotta pots for £9 currently. Mine survived the big freeze in March time, for the time being !! Mind they are raised off the ground and agaisnt a south facing wall. They were quite bright when new but look nice now theyve greened up a bit https://www.homebase.co.uk/terracotta-plant-pot-43cm_p158032
The overall height of the now bird bath is 3ft high, 2ft diameter, which translates approx.93centimeters by 62centimeters. The base is like an ice cream cone with the point cut off and the top is a shallow bowl which I have half filled with shells and pebbles, having lined it with an off cut of pond liner because it was too deep for little birds to bathe in. I have even tried putting a shallow plastic drip dish in the centre, balanced on top of the stones to encourage small birds but so far to no avail.
I have always wanted large terracotta pots,..60cm/2ft and 65cm/ 30inches was the best i could get then i was surprise on visiting the local hardware store they had 93cm /3ft containers very sturdy and made with fiberglass at a reasonable price 16 euro,..of course i grabbed two.
I priced the smallest of the salt glazed mammoth pots in my local GC. It was £50.00 so I will continue to lust after them as the really big ones are around £300.00. I keep telling myself they are an un-necessary luxury, and where would I put it any way. I would not be able to move it around as it would be too big, awkward to handle and too heavy as well. But I am still lusting.
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Recently I did buy two very large, grey, textured, plastic containers, turned one upside down, balanced the other one on top of it and made a birdbath. It looks quite good and I could never have made it with terracotta pots.
However, the birds have completely ignored their deluxe bathroom facilities!