The Accent (Companion) Plant Thread

[TomB]

Mixed native planting with heather.

 

[Big Country Bonsai]

Native grass with a thrifted ceramic piece.

 

[erich_raudebaugh]

Native saxifrage I collected in a pot I made.

 

[Gabler]

Assembled last month:

 

[TomB]

Primroses

 

[Shogun610]

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there are 8 flowers .. should be 7 and a blank background is a boring color contrast

 

[Gabler]

there are 8 flowers .. should be 7 and a blank background is a boring color contrast

Is that a reference to something?




Jack-in-the-pulpits

 

[KateM]

there are 8 flowers .. should be 7 and a blank background is a boring color contrast

I ser at least 11

 

[Shogun610]

Is that a reference to something?


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Jack-in-the-pulpits

Extreme sarcasm

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

A few from the benches…
Dianthus obscuring a nice little Bigei pot. Probably needs to be divided.

Dwarf hosta and some type of volunteer fern, Sharaku pot:

Ajuga on a freckled stone:

 

[Gabler]

Jack-in-the-pulpit:

 

[Colorado]

I am not completely sure what this is, but pretty sure it is Mock Strawberry, potentilla indica.

 

[WEI]

japanese cobra lily with assorted neighborhood weeds, moss and a stone collected from the gobi desert. pot by sara rayner.

 

[Colorado]

Hosta after a rainy night.

 

[Empty Mountain]

Made this matte yellow glaze pot last year and planted this native violet and moss in it. It was outside on the ground all winter and it started waking up this month. Should have purple flowers later on in the season!

 

[Wood]

My formal kusamono display at the Potomac Bonsai Association's Spring Festival. Columbine, northern sea oats, and some type of Echinacea. Small hosta and moss accents on the right. Scroll painting by Kristy Majeske

 

[Walther]

Maybe a little unorthodox but I enjoy cacti companions

 

[cdefoe]

is that a tenuissima? love to see copiapoa flowering : )

here's a few of my fav cacti/succulent plantings:

copiapoa humilis in a ron lang pot. i pulled a bunch of pups off a mother plant a few years ago, threw them in here, and managed 100% survival. really looking forward to seeing blooms some day : )

euphorbia lactea variagata cristata in a chuck iker pot

euphorbia symmetrica in a sara rayner pot

sinocrassula yunnanensis . pot by me

astrophytum asterias. pot by me

 

[Walther]

is that a tenuissima? love to see copiapoa flowering : )

here's a few of my fav cacti/succulent plantings:

copiapoa humilis in a ron lang pot. i pulled a bunch of pups off a mother plant a few years ago, threw them in here, and managed 100% survival. really looking forward to seeing blooms some day : )

euphorbia lactea variagata cristata in a chuck iker pot

euphorbia symmetrica in a sara rayner pot

sinocrassula yunnanensis . pot by me

astrophytum asterias. pot by me

Yes it is a Tenuissima.
Wow these are awesome! That ron lang pot arrangement is so sick!
All of your staging is excellent!

 

[badatusernames]

I collected a few plants, including columbine and maiden fair fern, while hunting for morels last weekend. Today I made these, I hope they live. Once they settle in they should look nice. Few different kinds of moss in them, the rock in the first I went to my yard and happened to find just before I made this, but I think it works.

The first pot is a ~100 year old Chinese pot, I believe post-nakawatari but pre-WWII. I don’t know the name of that era.

It was pretty cheap because it wasn’t nakawatari and because of how worn it was, but I think the aggressive wear makes it better for this purpose.

Second pot is Bunzan, third is a Heian Kosen that previously held a nice, if immature, semi-cascade Chinese quince. It girdled itself at the end of last year for some reason :/