McCoy Basket Weave Flower Pots and Chlorophytum comosum (Spider plant)

 

In this POTS AND PLANTS post, we pair McCoy Basket Weave Planters with spider plants, Chlorophytum comosum. Several points to make:

• Almost all of our McCoy pots made it to Bergamo, Italy in the international move. We may have left a few behind, stashed in a friend’s basement. Note to self: check.
• The name typically used to describe these pieces is “McCoy Pottery Basket Weave Planters”, circa 1950's.
• It’s great to be using these pots again. They are as they say in Italian of a certain cookie “brutti ma buoni” - ugly but good. The colors are garish, the forms strange, but we love them anyway.
• It’s been a long time since a “Pots and Plants” post! In fact, our first in the series back in 2011 McCoy Flower Pots and Crassulaceae featured some of the same pots seen here.

We’ve been on a spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum) kick lately. One day last summer, we were walking by the small chapel Beata Vergine di Caravaggio on the backside of the upper city of Bergamo and saw a spider plant outside the entrance. Usually, this plant is inside the locked chapel. We took one of the many plantlets and brought it home. That plant in turn produced more plantlets which are shown in these McCoy pots.

Spider plants remind me of my youth when I was designated plant waterer. They are tough plants. Many of these starts are destined for spots outdoors. Here, they are pictured in our “tower” where we temperature can go between 10 – 50 Celsius (50 to 104 Fahrenheit) seasonally.

It’s good to putz around with plants again. We’ve missed that. The other half of Travelmarx is thinking soon I'll be jonesing for macrame holders to hold these spider plants. Good idea!

Note: There is a Tradescantia snuck into these photos.