Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Novice Question: What is a Weed Pot?
Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida
>I kind of have an idea, from searching here, and looking at books, that a weed pot is a shallow vase. (?) Dictionary.com has no listing, and I asked a certified master gardener, who gave me a clever answer, "a pot for weeds."
Is there a standard definition for what constitutes a weed pot? When does your turning stop being a weed pot, and become a vase?
Re: Novice Question: What is a Weed Pot?
Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level
>I am really tempted to give you my "child of the sixties" answer. ;-) But most weed pots I see have very small openings...enough for just a few stems of dried weeds or herbs.
Tommy
Re: Novice Question: What is a Weed Pot?
Brad Vietje
>Well, when I was in college, weed WAS pot !
Of course, no one inhaled, though.......
Anyway, I take "weed pot" to be a simple vase that is solid excepting a cylinder drilled in one end. (And thus much easier to make than a hollow form vase.) They are used to display one or a very few stems of something, and some have glass or plastic tubes inserted so they can contain a little water to keep cut flower stems from drying out.
Safe Spinning,
Brad Vietje
Thetford, VT
Weed Pots...
Wally Dickerman at Green Valley, Az.
>I think that the term "weed pot" first came from Rude Osolnik. He made lots of them, a lot from Rhododendron root balls. His go back 40 or more years. A weed pot could be called a vase. The photo is of Banksia seed pod weed pots.
Wally
Re: Novice Question: What is a Weed Pot?
Bruce McElhaney Spring Lake, MI
>Don't feel bad, when I first heard of a Weed Pot, I thought it was a place to stash your weed.
Re: Weed Pots...
JamieDonaldson
>I have always been told, even by Rude, that he is given credit for inventing the weed pot, but his wife Daphne gave him the idea for displaying and selling her dried flowers.
Re: Novice Question: What is a Weed Pot?
Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida
>OK, vase form, with simple hole drilled into it, rather than sophisticated hollowing.
Thanks!
God, I have gotten old.
Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida
>I did not even think of that. :-)
couple more
Mike Schwing from Md.
>The base of each of these would fit on a quarter dollar. They're not hollow, just drilled straight down the center.
Bud vase
John Trant (Baltimore/DC area)
>It is a "weed pot" when I make them but they are called a "bud vase" when I sell them.
John
"A rose by any other name" ... is half price on Valentine's day
Re: couple more
Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida
>Nice work. What kind of wood is that?
