Vendor Stone for rock planting / ROR

[Mikea454]

I was looking for some rocks to try out some various rock plantings and was having trouble finding any locally that i could hand pick. Online semed like a crapshoot, but came across one seller that had some good looking seiryu and reviews suggested I could request certain attributes. I contacted the seller and he said I could even draw him a picture of what I was looking for and he would find a corresponding stone - I didn't have anything so specific in mind since I haven't seen any roots on the ~65 nursery pots due to repot this spring. I asked instead for ones with deep grooves, ledges and shoulders and explained the purpose (as typically he just sells to aquarium hobbyists. I got two sizes of seiryu and a mixed batch of small dragon stones about 10 lbs each lot for $30-40 a lot with no shipping.

pretty impressed with the choices and really excited to try the dragon stone, they have nice veins of quartz and some dramatic features (2 views of the same larger seiryu to better see the features) i requested this sizes specifically, im not ready to try anything to large yet.

listing for the 2-7" seiryu, 10lbs total

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1502983774/black-seiryu-stone-from-japan-for

hope that is helpfully for someone else in search of rocks

 

[Wulfskaar]

I considered buying the exact same thing a while back, but never pulled the trigger. Some of those rocks look like they will be really nice with a tree!

 

[Mikea454]

ill likely use a bigger tree and a maple, but they are not in leaf at the moment., but this one should be a nice one

 

[brentwood]

We get rock vendors periodically, picked up this piece of jasper (?) And hard for a ROR, trying to expose more if it this year, now that the plants got a good grip on it.

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