American Hornbeam pot suggestions

[chansen]

Originally Posted by rockm

By the way Christian, Where did you get the tree? It's very nice and has tons of potential.

Thanks. I got it in Richmond, Virginia. I dug it in the spring of '08. In fact, this was a tree I dug after PMing you for local collection advice (if you remember). This is one of two hornbeams I dug at that time. There's still one that I left that I'm kicking myself for not digging. But it would have meant one more large tree to move across the country, and I barely made it with the trees I had .

I need to carve down the stump at the top and let the new leader run wild this summer. I also need to get the back branch to put on some size. The new leader on the small trunk is moving the wrong direction, but that's where the bud popped. I'll have to work to compensate for that.

[irene_b]

Originally Posted by Rick Moquin

I was just trying to be practical I have a bunch of useless pots

Rick, there is no such thing as a useless pot!!! Any you think are useless you can pack and ship to me or Vic.....

[ghues]

Originally Posted by irene_b

Rick, there is no such thing as a useless pot!!! Any you think are useless you can pack and ship to me or Vic.....

Hey Rick,
I've got more trees than pots so.............I believe the shipping costs would be less if you sent them across the country....maybe we could trade ....birdseye yellow cedar or maple burl display slabs ?
Cheers G

[Rick Moquin]

Originally Posted by irene_b

Rick, there is no such thing as a useless pot!!! Any you think are useless you can pack and ship to me or Vic.....

Trust me, some are.

[Victrinia Ensor]

Originally Posted by Rick Moquin

I was just trying to be practical I have a bunch of useless pots

Ohhh! It could be said the same for me... except I try to get rid of anything I don't enjoy for it's own sake... tree or no tree.

I love just looking at them... but I have a lot of one-offs too... so they are all interesting to me.

[irene_b]

Rick post Pics of them!!!

[Rick Moquin]

Originally Posted by irene_b

Rick post Pics of them!!!

in green as well 6.5 x 5 x 1 OD

[irene_b]

I Like it!!! But I have tropicals that would go great in those colors...

[painter]

is that two turtles doing it in the lower left for scale?

[Rick Moquin]

Originally Posted by irene_b

I Like it!!! But I have tropicals that would go great in those colors...

... as I did but not for long, unfortunately!

The point I was trying to convey was: pots are not easy to come by for me; I used to buy everything that was decent that I could use; many are of some use (training etc...) but not final pots; final pots are something that suits the tree like a glove both aesthetically and horticulturally; I recently had an opportunity to buy about 15 pots. I passed them all up as unsuitable (even for training).

I now try to find pots for a specific tree vice finding a specific tree for a given pot. I believe the latter is much more difficult a task to accomplish.