In 2013 Portmeirion introduced a new dinner plate in the Botanic Garden range, the Sunflower:
The Sunflower also appears on mugs and jugs:
Here the Sunflower is on three different plate sizes:
Apart from the large salad bowl, still missing here, there is a 5.5 inch salad bowl:
and an 8 inch pasta bowl:
It is a delightful flower in the Botanic Garden
Strawberries in the Pomona fruitdrainer, simply delicious!
……or in any other lovely Pomona bowl for that matter…..
or cherries…………
or a melon mix in a vintage Pomona salad bowl:
or any summer fruit mix:
or black berries
or red currants from a Red Currant or White Dutch Currant oatmeal bowl:
raspberries
white grapes
Autumn is the time for the apple harvest
We like to make apple juice
add a few blackberries or blue berries
Nothing like a cup of freshly made hot juice on a cold autumn day
Here are the beautiful Pomona salad bowls:
The motifs on these 5.5 inch bowls are: White Dutch Currant, Imperatrice Plum, Wild Blackberry, Late Duke Cherry, Queen of Sheba, Red Currant, Biggerraux Cherry, Teinton Squash Pear, Wilmots Early Red, Shropshire Damson, Hazel Nut, Ingestrie Pippin, Hoary Morning Apple, Grimwoods Royal Peach.
Here is the Wilmots Early Red, one of the Gooseberries. There is also the Queen of Sheba:
They are early motifs, retired soon after the range was launched.
The Hazel Nut is another early motif:
The Ingestrie Pippin, one of my favourites:
Here are the early Biggerraux Cherry and the Late Duke Cherry:
The White Dutch Currant was replaced by the Red Currant:
They are wonderful to look at and look great with a fruit salad.
There are also 5 inch salad bowls:
I have two different Hazel Nut bowls, one motif is much larger than the other:
Also one bowl has the leaf border, the other is borderless:
I am still hunting for more different motifs.
This is a new motif for 2014,
in commemoration of the Great War,
a dinnerplate with Poppies
Here is a promotional picture by Portmeirion. Unfortunately, unlike the small teapot, the salad bowls are not available in the Poppy motif.
but here it is, in my very own kitchen: the Poppy salad bowl:
and here is the 8 inch salad plate:
and last but not least: 4 inch straight mugs:
