Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
My present favorite...no overthinking this one, it just sits on the shelf
Curious if this is more of a woman thing...or if men also struggle with this
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Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
Or maybe this one...
Which I have planted once, but probably should stay on the shelf...
Which I have planted once, but probably should stay on the shelf...
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Don't waste these photos I am starting a show and tell thread that a couple of these would work!
grouper52
Masterpiece
To each his own, Cadillactaste, especially if you're not showing them.
FWIW, 95+% of mine are earth-tones, dark, quiet - but then I don't have flowering or fruiting trees, and my eye likes even the fall colors complimented (as in nature) by earth-tones down at the ground level. But that's just me.
FWIW, 95+% of mine are earth-tones, dark, quiet - but then I don't have flowering or fruiting trees, and my eye likes even the fall colors complimented (as in nature) by earth-tones down at the ground level. But that's just me.
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Hahaha.
Good one! Good one!
Sean Connery to Sean Combs.....
"I'm only borrowing your humvee "
Sorce
kakejiku
Chumono
Cadillactaste
Neagari Gal
Thanks Will! Yeah...In the whole scheme of things...it honestly doesn't overly matter. I get that...I do. Though I think I still would like to have a bit of knowledge of what is considered a proper pairing...I would like to see if having one on my shelf would make me see others points of view more strongly...or not waver my thought process.
Talking to my friend again on pot colors...she's a southern gal. So she doesn't really see fall foliage and so pairing a pot to such notion is not one of her main agenda. Where I was thinking...rust rim on pot would bring out fall foliage...matching it closely. Is my own way of thinking...though that photo really makes the fall foliage really pop. But contrasting beautifully with it.
grouper52
Masterpiece
Well, they're not on your shelf to view, (
), but two of my trees recently posted here illustrate my point, and might be gazed at electronically. The first is the European hornbeam, a deciduous tree of no special color, masculine in every sense in its winter silhouette (the English language certainly needs a word for this concept that's easier to spell!), which is by far it's finest moment each year. The pot, although nothing special, and certainly not the best if I were to show it, suits it very well. But contrast that with the pot on the second tree, posted in the "First Tree" thread, a Korean boxwood in it's fall/winter bronze. Some might put such a filly in an ornate or colorful pot, and it might work, but it might also compete rather than compliment. The pot - an antique Tokoname - is not ideally proportioned for the tree, and is a bit less fundamentally masculine than the hornbeam's, but the overall effect is still to compliment the tree without distracting from it, and it certainly does this in many ways.[Disclaimer: This entire post is qualified under the International Standards of Humility as an "IMHO" creation, with full adjunctive "YMMV" considerations as well. The post also, although not yet reviewed by the Federal Multicultural Committee, was at least consciously designed with every effort to be free from all micro-aggressions or thought/speech infractions, and my use of the banned terms "masculine" and "feminine" are used here only in their historical sense, with full understanding that such archaic, anachronistic terms fail to honor and celebrate, and indeed are an assault upon the full diversity and malleability of our genetic, anatomic, self-identity and genital-use possibilities. I will freely confess, however, if summoned before the International Comintern and its tribunals, that such horrors my indeed be lurking subconsciously in my mental continuum, and I will be willing to submit most humbly to any assigned re-education or punishment - up to and including lobotomy or ablative electroconvulsive therapy, gender reassignment surgery, or liquidation.]
Eric Group
Masterpiece
Very nice! I like the hand painted ones to look at, but... I don't know jack about them except what I have read on the Internet... And if one if from a person famous enough for ME to have heard of them... Well.. It probably costs more than my car is worth! LOL
Cadillactaste
Neagari Gal
@grouper52 WOW! That tree in winter silhouette is jaw dropping to say the least...and the one to the right...very feminine compared to the one beside it. Seeing them side by side like that...just accentuates it even more so...but to enlarge those photos and WOWSER again! Deciduous...I agree if it wasn't for spell check I would be a goner.
grouper52
Masterpiece
No, no, no! - "deciduous" is not the problem word for me, but "Silhouette"! Who would have guessed THAT spelling besides a French-speaker! My elementary education included, BTW, an entire THREE YEARS (!!!) of French, grades 4-6, and all I learned - I swear - is how to count to ten and say "I have a headache," and I passed with an "A". I also learned that the French teacher I had - a weird bird - was an altogether different species, a marvelous ex-Jesuit man who taught me Latin, grades 10-12, and inspired in me a ongoing love of the languages, history and philosophy of Greece and Rome.
"Silhouette" - is THAT it? Typed from memory - spell checker says it's OK - I've learned to spell it!!! Old dog, new tricks!
P.S. Glad you liked the trees . . .
Cadillactaste
Neagari Gal
@grouper52 See we all have our own words we struggle with. lol No I don't have an issue with the one you do. But we each struggle with something in life. It's the way the ball bounces.
"Liked the trees"...is a FAR understated statement.
"Liked the trees"...is a FAR understated statement.
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
Not sure which would be worse.
I would go for the lobotomy or ECT. Being a blithering idiot sounds like fun.
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
Doubtful, unless you drive a real beater. It did cost more than my first 2 cars combined; which says more about my first 2 cars than this pot. They're art, like sculptures, vases, and paintings, just shaped like utilitarian vessels that are occasionally shown in use. Granted, not everyone who does bonsai is an art collector.
Eric Group
Masterpiece
I might have been exaggerating just a bit... I am sure it probably did cost comparable to my first car though...
I actually saw a pretty nice one on the FB pages last night for about $110 which isn't bad... It wasn't some machine fabricated production pot either I don't believe, it looked like the real thing. No clue who painted it or anything. I really like the ones done in red too, and the Japanese Bonsai Pot blog you refer to a lot had some very nice ones... A couple with dragons on them I think that were really cool!Similar threads
