I am lucky enough to have a big office filled with natural light from my north-facing wall of windows. It’s perfect for houseplants and for showcasing my collection of McCoy planters. I only collect the turquoise/aqua ones and have 4 different patterns in two sizes. I have two more small basket weave ones that are not shown in the photo. The exception to my rule is a figural planter on the far end featuring a white terrier going after a cat. I couldn’t resist that one!
Most people at the bank see customers and are required to keep their desks clear and in the branches personal items are discouraged. The nature of my job, though involves incoming and outgoing boxes of promotional items, a work table, large cabinet, and hanging storage right in my office with me. I frequently have huge projects that create stacks of paper on my desk. My indoor garden offers a little distraction from all the daily chaos! Plus plants clean the air and enrich it with more oxygen to feed my brain!
Back to My McCoys
Founded in 1910, the Nelson McCoy Sanitary Stoneware Company was located in Roseville, Ohio where they mined clay and sold it to other potteries. Planters were a perennial product, seen in nearly every line McCoy produced throughout the history of the company which ceased operation in 1990.
My planters are attractive to me because I remember them from my early childhood. Grandmas and aunties as well as my mother grew African violets and philodendrons in them. Most of those were probably obtained in the 1930s – 50s. I have one pot that belonged to my mother. Unfortunately it is pink – another favorite color of the era.