Bonsai landscape rock
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rockm
Spuds Moyogi
Aquarium store. Ibigawa rock is pretty common there. You can go looking in nature but unless you live somewhere with granite or limestone bedrock around you won’t find much worth using. I live a costal area rocks tend to be rounded. You want angular fissured stone preferably on the darker side. Stones with flat or round surfaces are uninteresting and not worth the trouble
I have purchased online at Aquarium stores before. Around here everything is Granite unless you stumble on Petrified wood. Thanks!
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
what ever stone you use (including granite) make sure it’s weathered. (Cracks gaps uneven surfaces etc)
yes do you need something? I need to go to mine sometime this week just wondering
Do you have a website or just collecting locally. I have some other property I can collect stone just not now, the underbrush and that property have a great reputation for Rattle, Copperhead and Cottonmouth snakes. Wintertime only.
No, just offering to send some stones if you had something or size in mind. They sometimes have remarkable pumice stones. Last time I was there they had 2 types of large grey - the normal large grain and a finer grained pumice with clams in it. Also a red marble with white streaks going different directions is very nice, I like that one but it is a smooth rock just for design. I like the Santorini stone too.
Attmos
Chumono
Since I started, all I think about is how to incorporate stone of some kind, in whatever way or shape I can think to make.
But... I haven't been out this year to collect from the river.
Attmos
Chumono
Dude... Someone needs to introduce you to the Lapidary arts if you have stuff like that just laying around.
I've clocked some nice granite... I guess you'd call them, small boulders... about a foot in diameter... that I can see becoming beautiful polished bonsai pots, if you have the time and patience.
Petrified Wood.... Probly too colorful to display with bonsai, but man, it would make one hell of a pot.
Leo in N E Illinois
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Actually I really like petrified wood, Stood up vertically, it can remind one of basalt columns, like miniature Devil's Tower. Some pieces look good horizontally, like a shale bed.
Yes, to me anything outdoor or natural in Bonsai or my landscape needs rocks, boulders.
I have a bunch of petrified wood that I do incorporate into my Bonsai on my benches. I know nothing about showing Bonsai but to me it looks good.
leatherback
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Hard to tell which stores would be available to you there.
I guess if you go up in the Caucasus you would find lots of good rockfields. Stay awway from riverbed in lower reaches where the rock surfaces are typically more eroded. Look out for rocks with rough surfaces.
I guess if you go up in the Caucasus you would find lots of good rockfields. Stay awway from riverbed in lower reaches where the rock surfaces are typically more eroded. Look out for rocks with rough surfaces.
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