Comments on: Pot selection redux

By: xwires

xwires — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:34:59 +0000

Thanks. If I show it with the Western, it will be the second tree. I won’t be sure about the final setup until the show comes together. We’ll see this weekend!

By: AlexV

AlexV — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:50:23 +0000

If you mentioned, I didn’t catch it. Is this tree going to be the primary tree or secondary? My guess is the secondary with the tall Bunjin Juniper as the primary, but is that the combo you are using?

Great post, was fun to look at the pots and guess which one would be appropriate.

By: xwires

xwires — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:50:32 +0000

Thank goodness the “event” was averted! I agree – I think we’ll start finding more uses for non-conventional pot-tree combinations in coming years. Because even if we ultimately find the experiment to be wrong-headed, it will be hard to know until we give it a try.
And besides, a little provocation can be a good thing on occasion.

By: John Kirby

John Kirby — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:11:17 +0000

Good CHoice, very nice commentary on the process of matching a tree and a pot and how it ultimately comes down to how the composition makes you feel.

Jonas, the Bunzan pot reminds of the time in 2006 when a couple of wayward troublemakers repotted Morten Wellhaven’s beautiful JBP show pine in to a perfectly shaped, very green (and highly glazed) pot. When he came back to see the work we had done I thought he was he going to, perhaps, have an “event”. After the joke was completed, we repotted his tree into a very fine unglazed Japanese container.

I think you could use a bright Bunzan or similar container with a more feminine shohin/Mame JBP if it weren’t going to be the principal tree in a group display.

John