Plant Pots with Drainage

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

with drainage hole and saucer

$16.50
Drainage hole
Saucer Included
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The 3-inch Green Layers is a glazed ceramic plant pot with a center drainage hole and a matching saucer, and it is also, technically, the start of everything. Over a decade ago, before anyone here knew quite what they were doing, someone layered one glaze on top of another to see what would happen. What happened was a family tree that now runs to more than fifty colorways and a handful of limited editions that arrived, made a brief and dramatic impression, and were never seen again. Thirteen years on, the descendants outnumber the relatives anyone can name, and this is the one they all came from.

The small size is where that first experiment lives, scaled down to a desk or a windowsill. Glazed ceramic holds moisture more evenly than raw terracotta, and the layered surface resolves a little differently on every pot. Picking this one up is, if we are honest, a quiet act of ancestor worship. We will not make you say that at the register.

Product detail
  • Color: Green 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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Green Layers: Where the Whole Line Started

Green Layers is the great-grandfather of this entire line, which is a strange thing to say about a plant pot, and we are saying it anyway. The whole idea began as curiosity rather than strategy. Someone stacked one glaze over another with no particular outcome in mind, fired it, and found that two colours layered and allowed to bleed produced something neither could manage alone. That accident became a method, and the method became a family that now has more than fifty branches. Some of those branches were limited editions that showed up, turned every head in the room, and quietly disappeared, the way the most memorable relatives tend to.

The three-inch version is where all of it traces back to. It is small enough to sit on a desk and old enough, in studio terms, to have earned a little reverence. Every Green Layers pot resolves on its own schedule, because layered glaze does not repeat itself on command, and we long ago stopped wanting it to. A centre drainage hole and a matching saucer sit under the colour, since the oldest idea in the line still has to keep a plant alive. If the rest of the Minute range is the reunion, this is the photograph on the mantel everyone points to first.

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

Green Layers is the oldest glaze we make, and the family resemblance runs straight across the sizes. Start here, then see what a decade of descendants did with the idea.

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Drainage Is the Whole Point

Even the great-grandfather of the line drains properly. A centre hole and a matching saucer sit under the Green Layers glaze, because seniority does not exempt a pot from keeping a plant alive.

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For the Part You Cannot See

The Minute Small in Green 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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