Garden statues, pagodas etc.

[Adair M]

We had to recently cover our koi pond with netting like yours for first time in 30 years. Two came up missing. Probably racoon. They are sly little devils.

Heron.

I tried the motion-activated sprinklers. They worked for a while. The heron learned that if they approached really, really, slow, they could still get in. The sprinklers work by detecting heat. And herons are covered with feathers. Pretty well insulated! And, I can’t use the sprinklers in freezing weather… so, I resorted to the net.

 

[Forsoothe!]

We had to recently cover our koi pond with netting like yours for first time in 30 years. Two came up missing. Probably racoon. They are sly little devils.

Sly little twenty-five pounders, and now that they know where they are...

 

[penumbra]

Funny thing is that when the racoons were around the fish were skittish as hell. Now they are out and eating out of our hands again. We had herons year ago when the pond had less cover. Now there is a bald cypress and a Japanese maple hanging over the pond and they stay away. Of course the owls still visit. In the heat of mid summer last year there was a bear taking a bath. He thought it was his own swimming pool. Imagine this fat old man yelling and chasing a 300 pound bear off. Usually we just talk to them, but when in the pond he had to go. One day my wife was sitting on the porch reading and a bear walked up to her. She reached out to touch it and I jumped out the door and a scared it away. The bear, not the wife.

 

[Adair M]

I may have had a raccoon visit, but I haven’t seen it. The reason I suspect it is I found a pile of crayfish skeletons by a rock a couple feet away from the pond. Now, that was doubly strange!! I didn’t know I had crayfish in the pond! i haven’t seen any. But where else could they have come from? And then, how was it there were so many? There were at least 10 skeletons! (20 claws.) Weird.

 

[hinmo24t]

I may have had a raccoon visit, but I haven’t seen it. The reason I suspect it is I found a pile of crayfish skeletons by a rock a couple feet away from the pond. Now, that was doubly strange!! I didn’t know I had crayfish in the pond! i haven’t seen any. But where else could they have come from? And then, how was it there were so many? There were at least 10 skeletons! (20 claws.) Weird.

bust out the old bay sometime

 

[TinyArt]

I don't see a lot of small Buddhas or mudmen under bonsai trees but I see a bunch for sale. Is it frowned upon to put little figures under a tree?

Maybe that is the equivalent of putting a light up neon palm tree in your front yard?

For what it's worth, the unglazed ones are lower-key, more likely to suggest a scene without distracting attention from the tree(s). More a Chinese penjing thing, although there are Japanese bonkei figures used in saikei landscapes sometimes too.

Nice vintage ones show up on eBay, sometimes even cheaper than the lumpy bright-colored brand-new guys. More variety too.

 

[ShadyStump]

I don't see a lot of small Buddhas or mudmen under bonsai trees but I see a bunch for sale. Is it frowned upon to put little figures under a tree?

Maybe that is the equivalent of putting a light up neon palm tree in your front yard?

There's a thread somewhere from not too terribly long ago on this very topic, and @HorseloverFat has been playing with miniature structures in his terracotta thread.

To each their own was the determination, whether you're doing bonsai or penjing. Many people find it kitchy, but it's your tree, dude, so it's your call.

 

[Forsoothe!]

If you want to be considered an insider in bonsai, -someone with taste and adhering to tradition, you shun them and look down your nose at them.

 

[Bonsaidoorguy]

We had to recently cover our koi pond with netting like yours for first time in 30 years. Two came up missing. Probably racoon. They are sly little devils.

Used to have a pond, heron got a couple and then a raccoon finished it off. The raccoon left plenty of evidence, including pieces of my fish. the herons were less obvious, until I saw one.

 

[TinyArt]

If you want to be considered an insider in bonsai, -someone with taste and adhering to tradition, you shun them and look down your nose at them.

Understood -- but in my garden at home, if I let a drunk poet lounge beneath a tree, ain't nobody's business if I do.

 

[penumbra]

didn’t know I had crayfish in the pond! i haven’t seen any.

They are fantastic algae eaters.

If you want to be considered an insider in bonsai, -someone with taste and adhering to tradition, you shun them and look down your nose at them.

Glad I am not an insider........

 

[Fidur]

 

[jaco94]

I like this little man near a plant

 

[penumbra]

I like this little man near a plant

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As do I. Also love the pot.

 

[Fidur]

I love to decorate my trees. It adds some kind of perspective and mystery.
Also, it allows me to use bigger pots, for my saplings to develop, and it makes a beautiful pot during the training years. That´s why I have some of my bonsai projects poted this way.
This one is a juniperus pfitzariana with an eucaliptus root (somehow like a tanuki)



This is a chamaecyparis obtusa "draht" and a cuphea.

 

[Fidur]

Cupressus macrocarpa "gold crest"

 

[penumbra]

My, you are about about having fun. Good for you my friend.

 

[TinyArt]

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Gotta wake up your foo dogs, though, they're sleepin' on the job!

 

[atlarsenal]

Ours are more of American Southeast Kuntry taste.

 

[jaco94]

A few years ago , here is one of my special effects projects that unfortunately got rejected for Jurassic Park ( don't know why , maybe because of the ligature wire )