Littlejoe919
Shohin
What do you all think? To eventually have a short boxwood forest on top.
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Combining a rock and a pot
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Honestly, I don't know exactly what you're planning. If you're wanting to plant the boxwoods on the stone, you don't need the pot. If you're planning a landscape type planting with trees planted on and around the stone, a much wider, shallower pot would be needed. Right now, I don't see any way this pot/rock combo would look pleasing together.
Tieball
Masterpiece
Looks like a rock sitting on top of a pot. Could be an interesting cave...perhaps with a low moss growth entering the cave.
I think the pot is to tall and not quite wide enough. I think you could make this creation very interesting using a much more shallow pot.
The design characteristics of the pot seem wrong for the rock planting.
I like the rock.
Forest? Hmmm....I was thinking of a shorter but wide spreading single tree...sort of like a short flat top tree. I think the forest will detract from the beauty you see with the rock.
So...to me....short flat top with a low smooth green moss bed leading into the cave.
My thoughts on planting. Might be interesting to drill two or three holes in the rock and train some roots to grow down through the rock into the moss area...visible when looking at the cave. For the start fill the cave with soil. Over time begin to remove the soil inside the cave and replace the bed with moss. Leaving roots dangling and growing down. Okay...maybe that's called a....Root under rock.
I think the pot is to tall and not quite wide enough. I think you could make this creation very interesting using a much more shallow pot.
The design characteristics of the pot seem wrong for the rock planting.
I like the rock.
Forest? Hmmm....I was thinking of a shorter but wide spreading single tree...sort of like a short flat top tree. I think the forest will detract from the beauty you see with the rock.
So...to me....short flat top with a low smooth green moss bed leading into the cave.
My thoughts on planting. Might be interesting to drill two or three holes in the rock and train some roots to grow down through the rock into the moss area...visible when looking at the cave. For the start fill the cave with soil. Over time begin to remove the soil inside the cave and replace the bed with moss. Leaving roots dangling and growing down. Okay...maybe that's called a....Root under rock.
StoneCloud
Omono
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Amen No pot...
Wait...
That would suck!
Sorce
Wait...
That would suck!
Sorce
StoneCloud
Omono
Just a rock and no pot?!?!? what is Sorce gonna do?!?!??!
I love the tree above it is an inspiration. Every time life gets hard I look at that picture of this tree and say
"At least I still have the ground to walk on and plant trees!"
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Rambles
Mame
To my eye, on its own the rock is too small for a boxwood forest planting. Depends on the trees, of course.
If it were me, and I wanted to do a forest with this, I would set it on a low slab, have one or two main trees middle and left on the rock, a small tree on the slab left, two small on the slab right, with the goal of suggesting a karst landscape
If it were me, and I wanted to do a forest with this, I would set it on a low slab, have one or two main trees middle and left on the rock, a small tree on the slab left, two small on the slab right, with the goal of suggesting a karst landscape
GrimLore
Bonsai Nut alumnus... we miss you
That is a nice rock, for inspiration and display ideas I strongly suggest you go to John G's Blog, and scroll down to Winged Elms On A Rock Island - he has many more posted there AND tutorial videos discussing rock plantings
The Link - http://bonsaisc.blogspot.com/
Grimmy
my nellie
Masterpiece
Set it on a low slab and not a pot, like others have previously suggested.
