Nice pots- with plants (No clay/plastic)
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Re: Nice pots- with plants (No clay/plastic)
Small agave - I tried to find a colour co-ordinated pot as this utahensis lives at my flat
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Re: Nice pots- with plants (No clay/plastic)
Thats a very handsome agave, not sure about closing the curtains though
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Excellent keep them coming. The thread has turned out as I hoped it would. Great minds think alike!
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Re: Nice pots- with plants (No clay/plastic)
Hi Astro,
Love the pot.
However, being the pedantic President that I am, current taxonomy results in a different name for your plant, so this is now Haworthiopsis limifolia as of 2013.
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Re: Nice pots- with plants (No clay/plastic)
That looks very nice Matt.
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Hi Matt,
This is absolutely the best form of A. utahensis often recognised as var. eborispina, the name of which means ivory-coloured for the tusk-like spines.
Great combination of plant and pot.
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Re: Nice pots- with plants (No clay/plastic)
I am now getting into succulent bonsai in a serious way.
I've just done my first online shop for bonsai pots and here's what's just arrived.
The largest pot shown here is 26 cm across and I've just done my first proper bonsai. The root system of this Crassula ovata has been reduced by around a third. This has then been wired into the pot using proper plastic coated bonsai wire.
Here's the finished result. The plant doesn't look great right now since it's been dry for 5 months
The shape could also be improved with some pruning. The plant had grown lopsided in the GH since yet again I'd omitted to turn it around. But I suppose it might be seen as having a bit of a wind swept look?
I've just done my first online shop for bonsai pots and here's what's just arrived.
The largest pot shown here is 26 cm across and I've just done my first proper bonsai. The root system of this Crassula ovata has been reduced by around a third. This has then been wired into the pot using proper plastic coated bonsai wire.
Here's the finished result. The plant doesn't look great right now since it's been dry for 5 months
The shape could also be improved with some pruning. The plant had grown lopsided in the GH since yet again I'd omitted to turn it around. But I suppose it might be seen as having a bit of a wind swept look?
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Re: Nice pots- with plants (No clay/plastic)
Very interesting Colin, C. ovata seems a good sort of plant to try and it will be interesting to see its progress. I don't think I'll be joining you, keeping plants repotted into normal pots is a job enough!
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Re: Nice pots- with plants (No clay/plastic)
OK am I wrong - there is a third way. First was you grew plants to try and retain their characteristics in habitat, and obsessed with field collection numbers and pedigree. Second you went for variants and hybrids and grew what you thought could be attractive and sellable.Colin Walker wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 4:49 am I am now getting into succulent bonsai in a serious way.
The third way is now you bonsai the plants, you castrate their growth. You cut, cut and constrain.
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Re: Nice pots- with plants (No clay/plastic)
Like the pots Colin & the crassula isn't bad, needs a bit more top trimming, I have a few Golums in Bonsai pots I need to get you a photo.
I may go & torture them a bit first
I may go & torture them a bit first
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varied collection of succulents and cacti but I especially like Euphorbia's, Ariocarpus and variegated agaves.
Bucks, UK
Branch co-ordinator, Northants & MK BCSS https://northants.bcss.org.uk
BCSS Talk team member, contact me- BCSS.Talk@Gmail.com if you want to volunteer or suggest a speaker plz.