POTS WITH DRAINAGE COLLECTION
Minute Medium Ceramic Pot with Drainage Hole and Saucer — Burgundy
The 5" ceramic plant pot with the drainage hole your plant has been silently requesting.
The Minute Burgundy is a ceramic pot made for cozy and moody interiors, with a drainage hole, which sounds like the kind of thing someone mentions at a dinner party to seem more competent than they are. This 5-inch fits a standard 4-inch nursery pot or a 5-inch plant — a burgundy rubber tree, a rex begonia, something dark-leafed and quietly dramatic. The saucer catches the water so the roots don't rot, which is more than most relationships offer. The glaze is the color of a good red wine at the bottom of the glass, which is not an accident and not something we are going to pretend we didn't notice.
- Color:
- Material: Ceramic
- Glaze finish: Glazed
- Glaze variation: Natural variation between pieces
- Drainage: Drainage hole — included on all sizes
- Saucer: Matching saucer included
- Year Designed: 2017
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- Dishwasher-safe. Can also be hand-washed with warm soapy water and a soft cloth.
- The glaze is dipped three times and kiln-fired — it is sealed, durable, and not looking for trouble. No special cleaning products required.
- Empty the saucer periodically. Standing water in the saucer defeats the purpose of having a drainage hole, which is a thing we feel strongly about.
- Not frost-safe. Designed for indoor use. A covered outdoor shelf in temperate weather is fine. Freezing temperatures are not.
- Handle by the body of the pot, not the rim, when moving with a plant inside.
Shipping
- Free shipping: Orders $200+ within the US
- Standard: 5–8 business daysExpress2–3 business days (at checkout)
- International Ships: to 40 countries — rates at checkout
- Packaging Ships: in outer box to protect gift box
Returns
We accept returns within 30 days of delivery on unused items in original packaging. If your piece arrives damaged, contact us within 14 days with a photo and we will replace it at no charge.
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A pot with a hole in the bottom. You would be amazed how rare this is.
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The Ultimate Repotting Guide
For those who have killed a plant. Or several. Or, frankly, many.
Before you put a plant into the Minute, you have to get it out of the nursery pot — a process that ends badly more often than any gardening influencer will admit. We wrote a full guide: when to repot (early spring, and not when you're feeling impulsive in October), which soil to use, how to tell your plant is root-bound, and how to avoid the three mistakes that kill perfectly healthy plants within a week of a well-intentioned repotting.
It is the guide we wish someone had handed us twenty-five years ago. It is written by people who have personally committed most of the errors in it.
Indoor Plant Pots with Drainage, Chosen by the New York Botanical Garden and 200 Others Who Knew What They Were Looking At
Every Chive pot begins as a sketch, argued over at length, and then made by hand. We have been doing this for over twenty-five years. We are, it turns out, constitutionally incapable of making something we do not mean.
These ceramic plant pots with drainage holes can be found in more than 200 gift shops and botanical gardens across the United States and worldwide — including the New York Botanical Garden, Denver Botanic Gardens, Longwood Gardens, the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Chicago Botanic Garden, and Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. The Norfolk Botanical Garden stocks them too.
We have never fully understood why botanical gardens choose our pots specifically, except that the people who run botanical gardens have spent their careers watching things grow at whatever pace they grow and have developed, as a result, a very low tolerance for objects that are pretending to be something they are not. A Chive pot is what it is. The botanical gardens figured this out before most people did, which is either a compliment to them or an indictment of everyone else, and we are choosing not to decide.
Chive Studio has received the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 5-star booth award — the highest rating given — for thirteen consecutive years. Our ceramic pots with drainage are stocked in the Getty Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, SFMOMA, and more than 200 art galleries and botanical gardens worldwide. We ship to over 40 countries.
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