Thor Holvila 2609-04

Outside measurements:

width: 273 mm /10.8"

height: 145 mm / 5.7"

deep inside: 123 mm / 4.8"

Edition: September 2026 - ”Growing pots”

Style: Round

Clay: Mixed

Unglazed frost resistant stoneware

Thors comment: 

"Here is a training pot that is a little softer in shape, but it has low feet to stand on so it fits both on a bench and free land. It has plenty of wiring holes both around the rim and around the sides and in the bottom. It do not have a large drainage hole. All drainage occurs through wiring holes. I have chosen to drape the rim in a blend of red earthenware and stoneware"

About this edition: on the edition: "GROWING POTS”

Why shouldn’t a growing pot be beautiful and made out of stoneware?

Why should a growing be something you simply hide away while your tree is developing?

With this edition, I have designed a collection of pots specifically for growing and training bonsai trees, giving them the space, lots of wiring holes, and conditions they need to grow strong before eventually being planted into a bonsai pot. These are the same pots I use for my own trees, I usually use them freeland as well.

I have deliberately given these pots an expression that clearly separates them from bonsai pots. They are not meant to imitate a finished bonsai container. They are growing pots and they are meant to look different.

This might become one of the most useful pots in your collection. Once you move your tree into its bonsai pot, you can simply reuse the growing pot for another tree.

And perhaps, instead of being hidden away somewhere in the garden during the growing years, it will have a place of its own right in the centre of your garden.

This is the first time I have created a collection like this, and I am very curious to see what you think of it, and whether you will appreciate the idea as much as I do.