[Dingus] All my pots...in no particular order

[LittleDingus]

Pot #11
Potter: Robert Wallace
Purchased: 2020

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I have a couple free form pots from this potter as well. I don't care much for some of the glaze choices he uses to highlight some of the free form pots...this one included. But I like the texture and shape.

Ignore the tree, it's a new to me species: chinese swamp cypress. I have 3 more growing out...this one was hacked up to shove into this pot this spring just to see if I could keep it alive in a small pot for a year. I plugged the pot's drainage holes with clay to keep the soil more swampy. This pot was originally purchased to house one of my baby bald cypresses.

 

[LittleDingus]

Pot #12
Potter: @sorce
Purchased: 2019

Pots — All Sorts Sorce Arts

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This was an "extra" but I can't remember with what? At the time, it was my tiniest pot! I went out and bought this ficus just to have something to put into it

 

[LittleDingus]

Pot #13
Potter: Sett belise
Purchased: 2020

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I bought a couple this style for some adenium globosa seeds I had germinated thinking they would grow as fast as other adenium. I started with 5 seeds...2 germinated...and now I only have a single plant left And it is still pretty small. So, I planted adenium arabicola seeds in these guys instead while I try and get the globosa to grow enough to move.

 

[SevenOaks]

@LittleDingus - about the broken Robertspots pot - why not try some Kintsugi repair if the epoxy doesn't hold up?

 

[LittleDingus]

@LittleDingus - about the broken Robertspots pot - why not try some Kintsugi repair if the epoxy doesn't hold up?

That pot has lots of swirls in the glaze. I think traditional kintsugi would look ugly...I did think about it. I think it looks better on more solid color pots. I'm not sure what adhesive I would have used other than epoxy anyway?? For kingship, I would have just covered the epoxy with gold filigree.

The pieces fit very well back together. The crack in the picture is really the only visible one. My concerns are the walls are tall and straight and thin. A frozen rootball could put a lot of pressure on that. I worry about picking it up by a side sometimes too.

 

[LittleDingus]

Pot #14
Potter: Sett Belise
Purchased: 2020

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Sigh...this is why I don't like empty pots! After posting pot #13, I remembered I had this pot sitting on a shelf empty somewhere. I knew where, but still, out of sight...out of mind Time to find something to shove it there...might need to be a tropical now though...which is fine. These are thin walled pots I don't trust to hold a frozen root ball.

 

[LittleDingus]

Pots #14 & #15
Potter: @sorce
Purchased: 2020

Pots — All Sorts Sorce Arts

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I think of these two as "the twins" They are a couple of my favorites! Unfortunately, the seiju has died I'll see if the hokkaido makes it a year then maybe look for another seiju to pair it with. I was really looking forward to the possibility of yellow fall foliage in these pots!

 

[LittleDingus]

Pots #16
Potter: @sorce
Purchased: 2021

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My tiniest pot! It's empty at the moment. I had a spring of sedum in it for a few months With most of my plants outside now, I was worried I'd misplace this tiny guy so I emptied it and put it somewhere safe for the duration. It will be planted again!!!

 

[LittleDingus]

Pots #17
Potter: @sorce
Purchased: 2021

Pots — All Sorts Sorce Arts

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I stared at this one on @sorce's website since it first went up! Lucky for me @sorce had a sale that dropped this guy down into a price range I couldn't refuse. So I snatched it! I have two other similar style pots from him that are glazed. This one missed my spring potting season I have an amur maple with a rolling trunk I might shove in this...or I might go totally bonkers and put an aromatic sumac in it and have the branches snake out the lips and cascade...might depend on how long I can tolerate it sitting empty!

 

[LittleDingus]

Pots #18
Potter: Edward Dyke
Purchased: 2021

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I bought this thinking I was going to put my quaking aspen in it. The pre-purchase pictures looked to be more of a cream color. In reality, there's a heavy green tinge that I didn't think I'd like under the bluer tint my tree usually has. Now I'm starting to consider what else I have that can go in this one...

 

[sorce]

It's nice to remember where some of these things are!

You have many that are very close to my heart!

Sorce

 

[LittleDingus]

Pots #19
Potter: @ForestInnPottery
Purchased: 2020

Forest Inn Pottery Bonsai Pots and Accent Planters

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One of my favorites! This was a prototype for a couple of pots I had commissioned for my redwood family. The shape turned out to be an almost perfect fit for how my young scheflera arabicola was turning out. I really liked the color and the vertical texture is a nod to banyan...I'm hoping to add a few more arial roots to the long branch in the next year or two and one out front where the pot bulges out if I ever get a new branch to form there.

 

[LittleDingus]

It's nice to remember where some of these things are!

You have many that are very close to my heart!

Sorce

It might be another decade before any of my grow out stuff is truly worthy of them What's in many of my pots these days are "placeholder" trees while my favorites develop more. I'm dying to get a dawn redwood into that accented rectangle I bought a while back! I was thinking this fall, but as cool as it's been this year, my redwoods aren't growing as they normally do

 

[sorce]

another decade

I was already thinking about how exciting it will be to watch them get paired better and better!

This ...

amur maple with a rolling trunk I might shove in this...or I might go totally bonkers and put an aromatic sumac in it and have the branches snake out the lips and cascade.

This....

bought this thinking I was going to put my quaking aspen in it.

Ahhh! Wonderful tells of things to come!

Sorce

 

[LittleDingus]

Pots #20
Potter: @sorce
Purchased: 2019 (I think?? Maybe early 2020)





I love this accented rectangle with it's glazed rim I originally bought it thinking I had a bald cypress that would fit it that I could flat top. I hard cut the bigger roots back to be shallow enough to fit into this pot but wanted to grow it out another year before potting it...and the tree never woke up Plan B is a dawn redwood...possibly in a weeping style. The one I'm thinking still needs to fatten up a bit more. I was hoping after the summer heat...but the weather has been so cool that it might not be until next year now

 

[LittleDingus]

Pots #21
Potter: Korean
Purchased: 2020

Local nursery.



These trees used to be in 4" plastic pots I've been keeping them small due to lack of space but I wanted to keep them because they are from seed from a tree on my office campus. This pot was purchased purposely so I could pot them all together for the next couple years until I hopefully have so more space again to let them grow out. The pot is a mass produced pot that claims to be from Korea. It's a low grade clay but feels sturdy and is nicely heavy. I picked the darkest one they had at the time. Most of them had a white stain and more disjoint coloration in general. I thought his one would look nice under these tiny cypress.

 

[LittleDingus]

Pots #22
Potter: Robert Wallace
Purchased: 2020

wallacewoodspottery - Etsy

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My hobbies are for my personal enjoyment. I don't usually get into the whole formal side of things with shows and rule following and such. Instead, I tend towards the quirky and unusual. It entertains me And so, I have a lot of these sorts of abstract form pots. I like not having a defined front and often enjoy viewing them from odd angles that don't line up with anything in particular. This one with it's organic shape and sides that role and jut at different heights really caught my attention! Currently I'm growing all 3 redwood species in it for the "from seed" division in the 8 year forest contest. I'm trying to get the tiniest trees I can get out of the largest trees in the world. I expect to fail...in which case, this pot may get a larch forest next!

 

[LittleDingus]

Pots #23
Potter: @sorce
Purchased: 2020

Pots — All Sorts Sorce Arts

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One of my favorites! This pot really has a nice heft and feel to it! I didn't have anything worthy when I first got it so I planted a bunch of dawn redwood seeds in it The pictures are from way back in the forest's glory days...like 3 months ago The forest has declined significantly since then due to mismanagement. I think it will live. If not, I'll start some more seeds in it. I've become attached to seeing a tiny forest in this pot!

 

[LittleDingus]

Pots #24
Potter: ??
Purchased: 199?



My first ceramic pot...from back in the days when $25 for a pot was $$$BIG Money$$$ for me. It was originally bought for an SLC "Dark Waters" cattleya orchid that my wife loved. It's been a utility pot since then...several different orchids and even a lime tree at one point. Now it's the only pot I have that's heavy enough to keep this jade from tipping over!

 

[LittleDingus]

Pots #25
Potter: Robert Feldman
Purchased: 2021

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This potter has a south western feel to most of his pots. They are designed more for succulents. People will pack them full of 6...7...8 different succulents all crammed together. The different color leaf tips of the succulents look real nice against the more earthy colors of the pots. That's why this pot has the high lip in the back...it works as a backdrop for small, colorful succulents. I like the organic shapes and deeper bowls This one has a couple of small Flying Dragon "Contorta"s keeping it warm.