Sunshine Ceramica Pottery Group

Why Pottery & Planters?

See why your garden center needs beautiful, unique planters for this growing industry.

Make your IGC sense-sational

We’ve all watched how customers behave in the rose section of the nursery. First, they look for flowers on the shrubs and make a beeline toward those blooms. Next, they bend down to smell them. Whether a rose has fragrance or not, our impulse is to put our nose into that flower.

Every IGC is in the plant and garden profession, but we’re also in the “sense-selling business.” Information about a plant’s ultimate size, shape or hardiness is interesting, but it’s data for the head. How a plant appeals to the senses, however, is information that goes right to the heart. Compare this to the cookies or cheeses you might have sampled at a grocery store; the ingredients and calorie count might be important to us, but if we love the taste, that’s how the box of cookies or chunk of cheese ends up in our cart. Read More…

8 Top Garden Trends for 2022 to Inspire Your Next Backyard Project

In 2021, the pandemic kept us outdoors in our yards and gardens, just as it did the previous year. We’ve discovered that nature can nurture us in dark times, so we’ve hung bird feeders, planted gardens, and learned to love patio life. More than half of us are spending an extra two hours a day outside compared to pre-pandemic, according to a National Gardening Association survey, and we’re in no hurry to go back inside in 2022. Instead, we’re keener than ever to get creative with our yards, porches, and patios. Read More…

Garden Pottery Ideas

This board provides me with ideas for pottery, particularly pottery for plants. Colors, shapes, techniques from various sources are part of the list. Read More…

2022 Trends In Garden Design

The trendiest thing you can do in your garden is whatever makes you happy! While we encourage that to be your goal, we still love to share what’s rising in popularity, in hopes of providing some inspiration to gardeners everywhere.

The forecast for 2022? Intention in the garden. Considering how everything—each plant, piece of garden art or furniture, structure, material, pot, and more—contributes to your space as a whole. Read More…

Gardening 2022: Stunning New Looks for Flowers, Landscaping & Outdoor Accessories

It’s time to get excited about the hottest new garden trends for 2022. You’ll need this inspiration to start planning how 2022 will be the best year ever to transform your garden into the dreamiest space.

So what’s trending? Well, with everyone spending more time at home the search for style inspiration for outdoor living has never been greater. We’ve rounded up all the key looks you need to know about to make your garden design ideas work even harder. Your outdoor space is now multi-purpose, often including zones for entertaining, relaxing and exercising. So you need to know how to kit out each spot in style. Read More…

Why Handmade Ceramics Are White Hot

Handcrafted small-batch ceramics are everywhere these days.

You see them in trendsetting boutiques like the Primary Essentials in Brooklyn and Still House in Manhattan, artfully arranged in window displays and on shelves like totems of good taste. Read More…