DeSoto’s Silver

Tommac Garret is local, well, recently returned to Beech Island, potter who told me this “When Desoto came up the river, he saw white in the cliffs along the Carolina side and thought it was silver — that’s why the area is called Silver Bluff.”

He also told me all this other amazing history of our dirt.  Like how Wedgewood, the English porcelain company, originally got their clay from China.  But China was adding sand, to ‘cut’ the clay and increase profits, so when the English discovered beautiful, high quality Kaolin in this area, they dug piles of it, shipped it home and made Wedgewood from South Carolina mud.

I like to know what our dirt becomes.  Of course, it becomes the plants that we ship across the country.  I also like to know that pundits of pottery, like Tommac, have endless great stories tied to our dirt.

Here are some of our plants, in Tommac’s bud vases:

Melon colored four o’clock. (Seeds now available for sale)

Crinum ‘Improved Peachblow’ and ‘Pink Trumpet’