Haha oh no! I've never had a pot lose its lip that cleanly but pretty much all of them have chipped at this point. I thought terracotta pots were supposed to be durable??
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It’s super weird! It fractured perfectly clean around the bottom of the lip AND around the middle. Very strange. Maybe winter weather weakened it?? 🤷♂️
jul 12, 2025, 5:07 am • 0 0 • view
That honestly sounds satisfying, hahaha. But yeah I never really looked into it but winter weather's my guess too! Does everyone else bring all of their pots in for the winter?
jul 12, 2025, 5:11 am • 0 0 • view
I have to take my terra cotta pots in if i want them to last more than a few years. I'm zone 7 in a wet climate. The freezing and thawing does them in.
jul 12, 2025, 6:33 am • 0 0 • view
Hmm I guess we’ll be taking that into account when we buy a replacement for what was supposed to be a permanent installation. We had some other pots *rot away,* I don’t know what they were made of. Not ceramic… had a fibreglass-y texture inside but they couldn’t have been that.
jul 12, 2025, 3:10 pm • 0 0 • view
From your description, it's also possible that the pot just busted due to being moved rather than frost damage. The places you said failed are both slightly weaker because of the way large clay pots are constructed. There is a sealed join at the rim, and another half way up the pot.
jul 12, 2025, 3:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Right so if I uhh, pulled up on the lip, — just saying, “if” — it might do that. That makes sense. Nuts.
jul 12, 2025, 3:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Totally hypothetical.. 😆
jul 12, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m furiously taking down notes so I don’t bust my own big pots 😅😅😅
jul 12, 2025, 4:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Looks great -- coming or going. Nice work.
jul 13, 2025, 4:19 am • 1 0 • view
Picture me watching a snooty British gardening show and they visit some traditional pottery place to talk about garden pots, and I'm like .... WHAT!?
jul 12, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view