Plant Pots with Drainage

Minute Medium Ceramic Pot with Drainage Hole and Saucer, Green Layers

with drainage hole and saucer

$30.95
Drainage hole
Saucer Included
30-day return policy

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The Minute Green Layer is a glazed ceramic indoor plant pot with a drainage hole and matching saucer, designed by Chive Studio and stocked at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston — which sounds like the kind of thing someone mentions at a dinner party to seem more competent than they are. The 5-inch fits a standard 4-inch nursery transplant or a 5-inch plant: mint, lemon thyme, the parsley that is doing better than anyone expected. The saucer catches the water so the roots don't rot, which is more than most relationships offer.

The glaze is the part that took the longest. Green Layer is built across three separate dips, each fired before the next is added. The result is three distinct layers of green visible on every pot. No two come out of the kiln exactly the same. It's a Chive Studio design, hand glazed, and the Minute has been in the range since 2017 — long enough to end up on the shelves at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and to make several appearances at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, where Chive has been exhibiting since 2013. It looks like a garden in the middle of becoming one.

Product detail
  • Color: Green Layers
  • Material: Ceramic
  • Glaze finish: Glazed Ceramic
  • Finish variation: Natural variation between pieces
  • Drainage: included
  • Saucer:
  • Dishwasher safe: Yes
  • Indoor / Outdoor: For indoor use and covered outdoor temperate weather use
  • Designed by: Chive Studio
  • Year Designed: 2017
Plants that love this pot

Potting Tips

  1. Repot in the evening.
  2. Wait 1–2 days after watering, then repot.
  3. Buy potting mix. Not backyard dirt.
  4. Move the top layer of soil from the old pot into the new one. It's a little ecosystem.
  5. Never go more than one inch bigger.
  6. Soil line sits an inch below the rim. Leca or small rocks at the bottom for drainage.

Which pot size for my plant? →

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Pot Care instructions
  1. Dishwasher-safe. Can also be hand-washed with warm soapy water and a soft cloth.
  2. Glazed pots are dipped and fired in the kiln — they are sealed, durable, and not looking for trouble. No special cleaning products required.
  3. For pots with saucers 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.
  4. Not frost-safe. Designed for indoor use and covered outdoor temperate weather use. Freezing temperatures are not recommended.
Shipping & returns

Shipping

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  • Standard: 5–8 business days Express2–3 business days (at checkout)
  • International Ships: to 40 countries — rates at checkout
  • Packaging Ships: in outer box to protect gift box

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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.

Chive has designed a great many pots, and most of them took the expected amount of time, weeks, months, an unflattering number of abandoned sketches. The Minute took sixty seconds. The honest version is that the designer, demoralized by four mediocre lines of pots, surrendered to a deeply necessary design nap. The Minute arrived fully formed, drainage hole and saucer included, and was sketched in sixty seconds of post-nap haze. The nap has since been added to the official design process.

What emerged is a glazed ceramic indoor plant pot that works as hard as it looks good. Five inches wide, five inches tall, the right size for the standard 4-inch nursery transplant, which drops in as if it were measured for it, because it was.

The most important feature is the drainage hole at the base. Indoor plants do not like sitting in water. This is not controversial, and yet an astonishing number of attractive plant pots proceed as if it were. One centre drainage hole. A ceramic saucer that catches whatever comes through it. The surface beneath stays dry. The plant stays alive.

The glaze is applied in three separate dips, each kiln-fired before the next is added. Dipping three times builds real depth, the colour shifts with the light, and no two pieces come out of the kiln exactly the same. This is the point, not a side effect.

Potting a plant with Chive

  1. It's best to repot your plant in the evening. Trust us, we know.
  2. Repot 1–2 days after watering — keeps the same rhythm going and won't shock it.
  3. Potting soil is not the dirt from your backyard. Go buy good, nutrient-rich soil.
  4. The top layer of soil in your current pot should be the top layer in the new pot too. It's a little ecosystem your plant likes.
  5. Never go more than one inch bigger than your existing pot. "It'll grow into it" is not correct, and you will kill it.
  6. Keep the soil line about an inch below the top of the pot. Add some leca or small rocks to the bottom for better aeration.

The Ultimate Repotting Guide

For those who have killed a plant. Or several. Or, frankly, many.

Before you put a plant into your new pot, 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.

Read the guide we wish we had

More of the Minute

The Minute comes in five sizes for five different plant situations. A 3-inch for the windowsill herb you have not killed yet. An 8-inch for the monstera you are going to.

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Large Green Layer Minute →

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Frequently asked questions

What is the Minute pot in Green Layers used for?

The Minute is a ceramic pot for indoor plants. It works well for pothos, snake plants, peace lilies, philodendrons, and small ferns and suits modern, boho, and minimalist rooms. As a 5 inch ceramic pot, the Minute fits a shelf, sill, or desk and pairs cleanly with the rest of the Chive pot range. This listing is the Green Layers colourway.

Does the Minute pot have a drainage hole?

Yes, the Minute is a ceramic plant pot with a drainage hole and a matching saucer. The drainage hole lets excess water escape so roots are not left sitting in water, which is the most common cause of root rot indoors. Water until you see a little drain into the saucer, then empty it. For a ceramic pot with drainage, the Minute keeps watering simple.

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