GARDEN ART
Shroomyz
Our signature handcrafted ceramic mushrooms — frost-proof, glaze-rich, and built to live outside year-round. Choose from Crystal, Funtasmic, Gumdrop, Fantasy, and Natural collections in five sizes from Mini to Large. Bestselling collection with garden centers across the country.
HANDCRAFTED CUSTOM STONEWARE
Custom Mugs
Wheel-thrown in our studio, finished in artisan glazes, and stamped with a custom clay medallion of your logo or artwork. Fired above 2,000° for everyday durability — dishwasher and microwave safe, with the slight variation and character only handmade pieces have. Made in the USA, 24-piece minimum.
KITCHEN & HOME
Made for the Table
Handmade ceramic bowls, plates, and serveware designed for the place where you make friends, court lovers, and count blessings. Thoughtful, timeless, and perfectly imperfect — each piece is food safe, lead free, and built to live in everyday rotation. Microwave and dishwasher safe. Made in the USA.
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Garden Art
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Shroomyz
Our signature handcrafted ceramic mushrooms — frost-proof, glaze-rich, and built to live outside year-round. Available in five sizes from Mini to Large across collections like Crystal, Funtasmic, Gumdrop, Fantasy, and Natural.
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Flower Puddlers
Handcrafted ceramic flowers on metal stakes, designed to catch rain in a shallow reflective pool that draws birds and pollinators. Layered glazes, organic forms — stunning grouped in threes.
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Garden Fish
Handmade ceramic Trout and Koi fish garden stakes. Each fish includes a removable stainless steel stake for secure placement in garden beds, ponds, and container displays.
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Wormyz
Playful ceramic worms with twisty silhouettes and one-of-a-kind faces — no two are exactly alike. They tuck into planters, peek out of garden beds, and bring instant personality wherever they land.
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Gnomyz — Classic
A full, display-ready Gnomyz assortment in classic colors. Eight Large, twelve Medium-Large, and twenty Medium-Small per Starter Pack — perfect for feature tables and seasonal garden displays.
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Gnomyz — Christmas
Seasonal ceramic gnomes in festive holiday glazes. 40-piece Starter Packs and 50-piece Micro Only Packs — built for holiday merchandising and Christmas-themed garden displays.
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Ghostyz
Seasonal ceramic ghosts for Halloween garden displays. 40-piece starter packs in mixed sizes — perfect for feature tables, garden beds, and themed seasonal vignettes. Available July 1 to align with seasonal merchandising timelines.
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Witchyz
Seasonal ceramic witches for Halloween garden displays. 40-piece starter packs with mixed sizes — designed for gift areas, vignettes, and themed feature tables. Available July 1 for fall merchandising.
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Veggie Stakes
Ceramic plant identifiers for vegetable gardens, raised beds, and retail displays. 50-piece Bestseller and Garden Variety packs covering tomatoes, peppers, beans, carrots, garlic, lettuce, and more.
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Garden Markers
Handcrafted ceramic herb markers — basil, rosemary, thyme, mint and more. Available in Bestseller and Assorted 50-piece packs. Perfect alongside live herb starts and potting benches.
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Trinket Dishes
Versatile giftable ceramic dishes in assorted stamped designs — bee, bird, butterfly, dragonfly, flower, hummingbird, ladybug, mushroom. Strong sell-through near checkout and gift displays.
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Pot Feet
Hand-dipped ceramic pot feet that elevate planters, improve drainage, and protect deck and patio surfaces. 50-piece packs in twelve assorted glazes — small, medium, and large to fit any container.
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Custom Logo Pots
Handcrafted ceramic pots with your logo or artwork glazed-in for permanent durability. Sized at 4″ × 4″ — perfect for branded plant programs, corporate gifts, and promotional pottery. Sold in packs of 24.
Kitchen & Home
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Pie Dishes & Bakeware
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Food Storage
Countertop ceramics designed to live on the counter — egg crates, garlic keepers, honeypots, olive oil cruets, and salt cellars. Available in your choice of artisan glaze. Microwave and dishwasher safe.
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Dinnerware
Stoneware pasta bowls, soup cups, side plates, and full dinner plate sets. Pick by color from the full Jefferson Street palette. Microwave and dishwasher safe.
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Bowls
Stoneware bowls in every form — batter, berry, pasta, and soup. Plus our signature solid-color collections in Garnet, New England White, Sand, and Yellowstone, sold as singles or 4-packs. Microwave and dishwasher safe.
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Serveware
Cheese and charcuterie board sets, oyster shells, and ramekin sets — handcrafted stoneware made for entertaining. Dishwasher safe.
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Kitchen Tools
Refillable ceramic soap and lotion dispensers, sponge holders, and spoon rests — keep handmade stoneware on every counter. Brass or silver pumps, food-safe glazes.
About Us
JJ Potts started in 2001 with two Neff brothers, a high school pottery class, and a kiln in the corner of the studio. The first thing they ever made together was a ceramic mushroom — they called it Shroomyz, and it's still our bestseller a quarter-century later.
Today our two wholesale lines — JJ Potts garden art and Jefferson Street Ceramics stoneware kitchenware — are shipped to over 700 retailers nationwide. Every piece is still wheel-thrown by hand and finished in our Utah studio.
Our Story
A family pottery affair, three generations deep — and 25 years in the making.
2001 — Shroomyz are Born
JJ Potts began in 2001 in a high school pottery class. Brothers Adam and Jeremy Neff, along with friends Scott and John, threw their first ceramic garden mushrooms on the wheel, named them Shroomyz, and started selling them to garden shops around their hometown.
2001–2003 — The Family Garage
As local demand grew, the brothers converted their parents’ garage into a workshop. Their father Mark invested in a small kiln, and production ran in the off-hours — after school, between sports, between social outings.
With little formal pottery experience, the brothers studied manufacturing techniques and tested them in the garage. Tools were improvised: hardware-store plaster, Super Soaker squirt guns, chicken wire, wet-dry vacuums, anything they could put to use. Soon the studio had filled the garage. Orders were packaged in the driveway, where the occasional escaped packing peanut drifted into a neighbor’s yard.
Jeremy remembers watching the home electricity meter spin and realizing they had outgrown the space.
2004–2008 — Setting Up Shop
In 2004, Bud — an 80-year-old traveling salesman — discovered Shroomyz and began running them up and down the West Coast. Orders piled in. The garage was no longer viable, so the operation moved into an industrial block building down the road, and college friends were recruited as a workforce.
“Those early carefree days and late nights with friends in the Shroomyz studio live on in our memories like they were yesterday.” — Jeremy Neff
The early years brought the usual mix of small-business highs and lows. Adam ran manufacturing while earning a college degree in engineering, like his father. Jeremy led product creation and managed the team — pursuing a part-time geology degree on the side, drawing on a lifelong love of clay and rocks.
2008–2013 — Scaling Up. Dad Joins.
By 2008, off-the-shelf glaze and clay supplies couldn’t keep up with production. Adam and Jeremy began mixing their own — applying their engineering and geology backgrounds to ceramic chemistry. The clay-and-glaze adventure that started here continues today.
Mixers, extruders, blungers, and other industrial equipment came next. Adam took the lead on sourcing, rescuing machines from some of the most iconic American ceramics manufacturers as they closed their doors through the mid-2000s. Jeremy connected with industry veterans, learning glaze and clay development from the people who built it.
Eventually, as the operation grew beyond what two brothers could manage, they convinced their father Mark to close his engineering firm and join JJ Potts full-time.
2014–Today — A Family Operation
With fifteen years of equipment, technique, and know-how behind them, the Neff brothers expanded the line — custom mugs, dinnerware, and a broader range of garden art. The expansion was made possible by younger brothers Zach and Derrik joining the family business.
Zach brought fresh energy and balance, taking over the business side after earning a degree in economics — freeing Adam and Jeremy to focus on making and creative work. Derrik leads the potters team and is a master of the wheel.
JJ Potts is now a true family operation. Our two wholesale lines — JJ Potts garden art and Jefferson Street Ceramics stoneware kitchenware — ship to over 700 retailers nationwide, with every piece still wheel-thrown by hand and finished in our Utah studio.
Manufacturing Partner
We make the ceramic components for Hammerton Lighting.
The ceramic components in Hammerton Studio’s lighting fixtures — featured in resorts, restaurants, and homes across the country — are made here, in our Utah studio, on the same wheels and in the same kilns as our wholesale lines.
Custom ceramic manufacturing isn’t a side gig. It’s a capability we’ve built over 25 years.
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