I love old weathered terracotta pots for the garden, but when you've got a red brick house like ours it can just look too much. Finding grey or nearly-black pots is not necessarily easy and painting pots to the desired colour has always seemed like a lot of work. However, there is now a new linseed oil paint on the market designed especially for the painting of pots. It comes in three subtle tints: '
Svart Akleja' (Black Aquilegia), '
Blåsalvia' (Blue Salvia) and '
Himmelsblå Vallmo' (Sky Blue Poppy).
The hitch? It's produced for
Zetas, a Swedish
feinschmecker-style garden centre in Sweden, which doesn't do deliveries abroad. Drat.
I'm going to have to do some research on how to get my hands on this - it should be something that Petersham Nurseries or Cliftons Nursery would sell, perhaps they can help. I'm on the case but if all else fails I might be able to find something similar at Chelsea Flower Show.
Photos: Victoria Skoglund / Zetas Finsmakar Trädgård
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