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Transform Your Garden This Spring With Antique Oil Jars and Stoneware

To help create a stunning Mediterranean aesthetic, evoking the history and heritage of a traditional Italian garden, investing in an antique oil jar or...

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Why Your Garden Needs an Antique Oil Jar

A handmade Italian antique oil jar is a wonderful way of adding depth, character, and a touch of rustic charm to your garden space — and, with some...

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How to Overwinter Plants in Terracotta Pots

Here are some effective strategies for overwintering your garden plants in terracotta pots, ensuring they emerge in spring as vibrant as ever.

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Why Choose Terracotta Pots over Plastic?

Mud Mountain specialises in large handmade terracotta pots and planters made in the heart of Tuscany. Here are some of the main benefits of choosing terracotta...

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Fiery Foliage and Terracotta Planters for Your Autumn Garden

Orangey-yellow falling leaves, migrating birds, and the last of the hedgerow blackberries: it can mean only one thing: autumn has arrived. While it might...

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5 Ways to Add Instant Natural Colour to Your Garden This Summer

Classic terracotta pots not only bring an authentic touch of the Mediterranean into your outdoor space but also serve as perfect vessels for displaying...

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How to Make the Most of Your Summer Garden

Avid gardeners know that there is always something to be done in the garden. However, amidst all the tasks of sowing, planting, weeding, and watering,...

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Design a Patio Fit for a Mediterranean-Style Garden

The popularity of Mediterranean-style gardens has soared in recent years with homeowners looking to infuse their outdoor spaces with the timeless appeal...

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Adding foliage texture to container displays

There's often a lot of focus on colour, and rightly so, but flowers aren't the only way to add visual interest to a planting scheme. By thinking about...

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Top Tips For Planting Lavender In Terracotta Pots

Lavender, with its rich history, iconic purple hue and delightful aromatic fragrance is a hugely popular plant variety in the UK. If you’re looking...

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How to Select a Colour Palette for Your Garden Design

As the weather warms up and we spend more time outdoors, it’s natural to start thinking about how to spruce up our gardens. One important aspect of...

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A Guide For Choosing and Using Terracotta Pots In Your Garden

Choosing a handmade terracotta pot is an investment in traditional Italian heritage and timeless artisan design. Worked and moulded by Tuscan Master Potters,...

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How To Plant Summer Flowering Bulbs for the Best Container Displays

If you're looking to add some color and life to your outdoor space this summer, planting flowering bulbs in handmade terracotta pots is a great way to...

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How to Choose the Right Size Handmade Terracotta Pot

In order for your vibrant plant life to thrive in the great outdoors, however, it's always important to make sure you’re employing every measure possible...

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How to prepare terracotta pots for planting

As the first signs of spring are well underway, now is a time to think about planting. If you're thinking of using terracotta pots, there are a few things...

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5 Bee-Friendly Plants Suitable For Terracotta Pots

As well as providing your garden space with injections of colour, vibrancy and a wave of distinct natural aromas, a carefully selected variety of plant...

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The fascinating history of Tuscan terracotta

Our Tuscan terracotta pots are lovingly handcrafted using ancient methods, but exactly how far back do they go?

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Can You Grow Roses in Large Terracotta Pots?

No classic country garden would be complete without the introduction of some quintessentially British plant life—and growing roses in large terracotta...

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5 Gardening New Year Resolutions for Every Gardener

If you've always wanted to try your hand at gardening, the new year is a great time to start. Let's take a look at some of the resolutions you can set...

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A Winter Potting Guide For Large Terracotta Pots

It’s certainly not the ideal time for planting in the ground and in your beds, but taking advantage of the versatility and grandiose aesthetics of a...

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How adding large terracotta pots to your garden can change the landscape

As our gardens transition from summer brights and vibrant blooms to fiery autumn foliage, it's a great time to think about what we'd like it to look like...

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Adding Character: New Build Garden Ideas

Moving into a new home is incredibly exciting, and new builds provide a lovely blank canvas ready for you to make your own. But when it comes to the garden,...

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Exploring Garden Trends For 2023

While our gardens remain precious havens for a broad range of pursuits in our daily lives—a place to relax, entertain, work and dine—so does our quest...

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Enjoy the Outdoors From Dusk 'til Dawn with Gorgeous Garden Lighting Design

Now is a good time to start thinking about ways of illuminating your outdoor spaces—to make the most of those short autumn evenings and ensure your...

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The Benefits of Choosing Low-Maintenance Evergreen Plants For Your Garden

Low-maintenance evergreen shrubs are a superb, versatile planting option for a variety of garden spaces and can be used to satisfy a number of landscaping...

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Build a BBQ Area That Takes Outdoor Entertaining to the Next Level

Establishing a dedicated area for cooking, dining and socialising is a glorious way to divide up your garden space, and with a few thoughtful additions...

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The Woodee: Supporting small businesses

We often hear about how much of an impact supporting small businesses has on the people who run them, and as a small business ourselves, we know that...

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7 Garden Seating Area Ideas Perfect For Bookworms

There’s nothing nicer than setting up camp outdoors with a drink, snacks, and comfy seating ready to lose yourself in a book for an hour or five. With...

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Why Spending Time in the Garden is Great For Your Wellbeing

Staying at home doesn’t have to mean being boring, and with more and more people discovering a love and appreciation for the great outdoors after the...

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Expand Your Living Space and Take the Indoors, Outdoors

Recent times have seen the people of the UK become much more in tune with our gardens, looking to create beautiful, relaxing, spaces as extensions of...

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How to Start Your Own Terracotta Herb Planter Garden

There are a whole host of practical reasons for growing your herbs in containers. Whatever your reasons, you’ll be pleased to learn that almost all...

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Bring Your Holidays Home: How to Create Your Very Own Italian-style Garden

At its heart, Italian garden design combines the majestic structural aesthetics of a classical French garden, with the natural, sun-soaked essence of...

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Create Your Own Beautiful Country Cottage Garden

There’s a sense of romanticism associated with the classic English cottage garden; a beautiful natural space populated with vibrant, aromatic flowers,...

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Can You Grow Lemon Trees in the UK?

Lemon trees are in fact the easiest citrus trees to grow on British shores. Unlike limes, they are spirited plants that can stand up to much lower temperatures...

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Low-Maintenance Gravel Garden Design

For lovers of the great outdoors and the joys of gardening—but less keen on the often arduous task of garden maintenance—gravel is a great investment...

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Gardening for the Senses: Scented Plants for Pots

When choosing what kinds of flowers to bed in your terracotta garden pots, it’s often easy to focus purely on aesthetics. But what about the other senses?

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Terracotta and Tulips

October sees the start of tulip bulb planting season, and nothing lifts the spirits like the promise of a fabulous Spring tulip display in a terracotta...

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Decorative Pot Toppings

To add a bit of interest to your pots, why not try a decorative topping? From biodegradable pine cones to glitzy glass marbles, a decorative pot topping...

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Selecting the Best Terracotta Pot for your Plant

Deciding on the best style of terracotta pot for your particular plant or choosing a good type of plant for your terracotta pot can sometimes feel slightly...

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To Pot or Pot in a Pot; That is The Question!

What is 'pot in a pot' planting, and when is best to use this technique. We offer advice when you should remove the plant from the plastic pot or simply...

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Plenty Of Pots And Plenty Of Drama!

The first wagon from Italy has safely arrived, and what an arrival it made...

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Caring for Pot-Bound Plants

Whether it's time to move up in pot size or just refreshing a pot-bound plant in its forever pot, Spring is a good time to do it.

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Planting an Olive Tree

Advice on planting a large pot with an olive tree

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How Our Pots Are Made

In this post I will describe how our terracotta pots are hand made and the process that gives them resistance to frost.

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Protect Your Pots This Winter

As the weather starts to change and the cold days arrive with the chance of frost and snow, make sure your terracotta pots are well protected.

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