Mike, I realised my weeds looked better than my trees, so they're what gets pride of place.
P1030347 PS pls include an accent plant pic in all posts to this thread
The Accent (Companion) Plant Thread
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P1030347 PS pls include an accent plant pic in all posts to this thread
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
I would go take a picture but I just pulled them a few days ago. They'll come back though. They always do.
ghues
Omono
Grant Hamby
Shohin
This stuff keeps growing around my house. I finally stuck some on a slab. We'll see what happens. Nothing ever survives on this slab. That's more of a testament to my skill though, it's a great slab.
Tycoss
Chumono
Little seedling shrub in a second hand container from Indigo. I display it on my bench with a larch. Also a dwarf hen and chick in a similar container to accent an olive.
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Grant Hamby
Shohin
Oak seedling in an Erin container
Grant Hamby
Shohin
That's a good question.. but I like to use native seedlings (especially when they have nice autumn color) as companion plantings because when I walk through the woods on my property, the ground next to impressive trees is usually spotted with them. And mame or even shohin trees are often used as companion plants. So I think the line is fuzzy sometimes, haha.
JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
Love love love...
Grant Hamby
Shohin
Thanks!
Yes. My father-in-law gave it to me, and it seemed like the best thing to do with it! Ha.
Grant Hamby
Shohin
Can't stop. I find weeds, I put 'em in pots.
Careful, if you keep it up you'll wind up picking all kinds of things and potting them...
P1030437 (temporary planting)
JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
But super cool. Did you catch and release?
Grant Hamby
Shohin
That is wicked. And I looove that little container.
wireme
Masterpiece
Careful, if you keep it up you'll wind up picking all kinds of things and potting them...
(temporary planting)
Hypholoma? Hypholoma are popping hard in the woods behind my house these days. We're mostly finding the edible Hypholoma Capnoides (smoky gilled wood lovers) they look very nearly the same as the poisonous Hypholoma Fasciculare (sulphur tuft) which I'm guessing you've got there?
Fun accent!
Thanks for the kind comments.
The pot is by British potter Bryan Albright. I was pleased to pick it up on ebay recently.
I think so, though I'm only really pedantic about ID'ing things I'm going to eat - which definitely doesn't apply to these. Which is a shame because there are huge crops in my local woods.
To make the post legit, you can see the V2.0 of the planting in this pic from the show. I didn't actually get any good pics so this phone snap will have to do!
Sort of - because they're picked rather than grown, they don't last long. I was using them in a show this weekend. In the event, the original planting faded away, and I had to go out and get some more to replace them. I guess it's more like flower arranging than kusamono really (though the other things growing in the pot are alive). Anyway, both crops of fungus have now 'gone to live on a farm'.
The pot is by British potter Bryan Albright. I was pleased to pick it up on ebay recently.
I think so, though I'm only really pedantic about ID'ing things I'm going to eat - which definitely doesn't apply to these. Which is a shame because there are huge crops in my local woods.
To make the post legit, you can see the V2.0 of the planting in this pic from the show. I didn't actually get any good pics so this phone snap will have to do!
wireme
Masterpiece
Thanks for the kind comments.
Sort of - because they're picked rather than grown, they don't last long. I was using them in a show this weekend. In the event, the original planting faded away, and I had to go out and get some more to replace them. I guess it's more like flower arranging than kusamono really (though the other things growing in the pot are alive). Anyway, both crops of fungus have now 'gone to live on a farm'.
The pot is by British potter Bryan Albright. I was pleased to pick it up on ebay recently.
I think so, though I'm only really pedantic about ID'ing things I'm going to eat - which definitely doesn't apply to these. Which is a shame because there are huge crops in my local woods.
To make the post legit, you can see the V2.0 of the planting in this pic from the show. I didn't actually get any good pics so this phone snap will have to do!
Could be worth a look if there are huge crops? Capnoides is a fine edible but there are poisonous look-similars so you need to be very sure. I normally wouldn't bother with something like that either but I've got huge crops here every year just behind the house so it was worth the research time. I'm just past the stage of certain ID and cooking very small portions, still haven't gone for the big plateful or fed any to the family. It will be good to get comfortable enough with these to do that though, millions of them out there.
H. fasciculare (poisonous, not deadly) has olive greenish gills when mature H. capnoides has smoky grey gills when mature. Galerina autumnalis is deadly poisonous looks a little similar but easy to tell apart when you know how.
Capnoides pics from yesterday, pretty mushrooms for sure.
And an accent plant, pathetic little thing growing in an old dog bone, perhaps next year it will be better.
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
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Tycoss
Chumono
The seedling I posted above, but now with fall color. I find the blue pot makes more sense now. It is a western snowberry, symphoricarpos occidentalis. Around here usually just called "buckbrush".Similar threads
