The Accent (Companion) Plant Thread

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2inches.

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Recently tidied.


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[ABCarve]

oxalis, blood grass

 

[ABCarve]

himalayan fern, wanda primrose

 

[TomB]

oxalis, blood grass

Great composition. I think this one is the same grass.

 

[ABCarve]

Korean fern? Ajuga

 

[sorce]

Hit some new buttons on the tablet today...
Made for some good pics...

Some new stuff...
Some reinvented old stuff..
And some lush repeats that are really coming into their own.

Getting my timing down for this here show!





Consider the ease of directionalizing triangles....

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More new buttons!


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[JudyB]

oxalis, blood grassView attachment 156414

What is the third plant in this one? Looks like 3 plants to me.. nice composition, I like the texture differences.

 

[ABCarve]

What is the third plant in this one? Looks like 3 plants to me.. nice composition, I like the texture differences.

Can't remember. I'll be 63 next month I got it from Mulberry Creek Herb farm. It's not hardy around here.

 

[Arcto]

Created this spring. Maybe my personal favorite so far.

 

[Shima]

Can't remember. I'll be 63 next month

Can't remember when I was 63.

 

[Shima]

Yes...It's mostly about the rock.

 

[RKatzin]

I see so many plants I think would be great. Has anyone ever work with Tiger Lily? These are growing around my spring in a patch of Azalea. They get big when rooted in a wet spot. Four feet tall with three to four inch flowers. I also see tiny ones growing in dry ground, maybe a foot tall and a one inch flower. The place is a botanical wonderland of mosses, ferns, grasses and wildflower. I'm not sure what the little white flower is, but there's lots of it. How about bunch grass?
Question for the crowd, I have a lot of rather large trees. Would your accents be equally large? Say, something like Bear grass?

 

[CasAH]

I see so many plants I think would be great. Has anyone ever work with Tiger Lily? These are growing around my spring in a patch of Azalea. They get big when rooted in a wet spot. Four feet tall with three to four inch flowers. I also see tiny ones growing in dry ground, maybe a foot tall and a one inch flower. The place is a botanical wonderland of mosses, ferns, grasses and wildflower. I'm not sure what the little white flower is, but there's lots of it. How about bunch grass?
Question for the crowd, I have a lot of rather large trees. Would your accents be equally large? Say, something like Bear grass? View attachment 159335 View attachment 159336 View attachment 159337

For the white flower the palmate leaves are from a lupine. If this picture is from the Spring that would be my guess for the flower, the flower is not very clear in the pic.

 

[RKatzin]

The pics are from the spring, the leaves are Azalea. At the base of the flower stem are some little leaves of the flower. By spring I mean my water source, the flowers are midsummer after the Azalea come and go.

 

[TomB]

Question for the crowd, I have a lot of rather large trees. Would your accents be equally large? Say, something like Bear grass?

Typically, you don't want an accent planting to come higher than the stand your bonsai is placed on - so it should be in scale with the main planting. That refers to plantings used as companions / accents with trees being shown. People also create plantings for display in their own right, rather than being exhibited with a tree. I think the larger plants you're showing here would be more suited to that kind of use.
There's a nice article and links to some other sources here - http://swindon-bonsai.co.uk/2011/08/09/kusamono-and-shitakusa-by-ritta-cooper/

Obligatory picture - a Hosta 'Tiny Tears'.
P1030929

 

[TomB]

Put this one together a few days ago. Edge-of-the-woods autumnal planting. The mushrooms are temporary but I hope they'll be replaced with some growing from a fungus-bearing piece of wood I've buried in the pot.

Which display do you think works better - the wood slice or the slats?

 

[GrimLore]

slats

That right there is pretty - slats don't distract as much I myself I would go even less with two short pieces of bamboo, but that is me.

Grimmy

 

[sorce]

Created this spring. Maybe my personal favorite so far. View attachment 159292

I love that. The negative rock space is wonderful.
Perfect!



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