The Minute Green Layer is a glazed ceramic indoor plant pot with a drainage hole and matching saucer, designed by Chive Studio and stocked at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston — which sounds like the kind of thing someone mentions at a dinner party to seem more competent than they are. The 5-inch fits a standard 4-inch nursery transplant or a 5-inch plant: mint, lemon thyme, the parsley that is doing better than anyone expected. The saucer catches the water so the roots don't rot, which is more than most relationships offer.

The glaze is the part that took the longest. Green Layer is built across three separate dips, each fired before the next is added. The result is three distinct layers of green visible on every pot. No two come out of the kiln exactly the same. It's a Chive Studio design, hand glazed, and the Minute has been in the range since 2017 — long enough to end up on the shelves at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and to make several appearances at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, where Chive has exhibited for 14 consecutive years. It looks like a garden in the middle of becoming one.