Plant Pots with Drainage

Minute Small Ceramic Pot with Drainage Hole and Saucer, Blue Layers

with drainage hole and saucer

$16.50
Drainage hole
Saucer Included
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The 3-inch Blue Layers is a glazed ceramic plant pot with a center drainage hole and a matching saucer, and it started as a mad-scientist experiment with glaze technique, the kind of thing that looks effortless once finished and is genuinely difficult to pull off while you are standing over it wondering whether the whole batch is about to fail. Most people will read it as a single calm blue, which is the trick working exactly as intended and the part we are quietly proud of.

It is much harder to make than it appears, which is exactly why we like it. Glazed ceramic holds moisture more evenly than raw terracotta, and the layered blue resolves a little differently on every pot. We are geeks about this in a way that does not always translate to a product description, but the small Blue Layers is proof that the difficulty was worth it, the whole experiment compressed into three honest inches.

Product detail
  • Color: Blue Layers
  • Material: Ceramic
  • Glaze finish: Glazed Ceramic
  • Finish variation: Natural variation between pieces
  • Drainage: Standard Centre Drainage Hole
  • Saucer:
  • Dishwasher safe: Yes
  • Indoor / Outdoor: For indoor use and covered outdoor temperate weather use
  • Designed by: Chive Studio
  • Year Designed: 2017
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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.

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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

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  • 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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Blue Layers: A Mad Experiment, Compressed

Blue Layers began the way our favourite glazes tend to, as a slightly mad experiment that no one asked for and we could not leave alone. The goal was to layer blues in a way that looks effortless from across a room and is, in practice, a genuine ordeal to produce. Layered glaze is unpredictable by nature, and stacking blues specifically means standing over a batch wondering, more often than is comfortable, whether the entire thing is about to fail. Sometimes it does. When it does not, you get a surface with far more happening on it than a glance suggests, depth that reads as simple only because the complexity is doing its job.

The three-inch is the experiment at its most concentrated, and we are quietly fond of it precisely because it was hard to get right. We are, to be honest, geeks about this. We enjoy the technical problem more than is strictly reasonable, and Blue Layers is where that enthusiasm shows most plainly. Each pot resolves on its own, since layered glaze refuses to repeat and we long ago stopped asking it to. A centre drainage hole and a matching saucer sit underneath, the plain part beneath the part we obsess over. The small size looks easy. It was not. That gap between how it looks and how it is made is, for us, the entire appeal.

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.

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The Same Glaze, Other Sizes

Blue Layers runs across the sizes, harder to make than any of them look. The small is the experiment at its most concentrated.

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Drainage Is the Whole Point

A centre drainage hole and a matching saucer sit under Blue Layers, the plain part beneath the part we obsess over.

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For the Part You Cannot See

The Minute Small in Blue Layers drains and holds moisture well, but a plant that has quietly given up needs more than a good pot. Verte Rx works on the roots and colour a pot cannot reach.

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