Matching this pyracantha to a pot

[Brian Van Fleet]

Ok, just for fun, and since its repotting time around here, lets talk about matching pots to trees. Here are several pots used at different times for this pyracantha. What do you feel works best? What shape/size/color would you use? Glazed vs. unglazed for pyracantha, or other broad-leafed evergreens...Anything particularly offensive about any of these pots?

1. Shallow green rectangle
2. Cream oval
3. Deep green soft rectangle
4. Aqua oval

Tree aside, its got its share of "opportunities", let's talk pots. Have fun.

 

[A Random User]

Personally, I would go with an unglazed brownish red colored pot...
Something like one of these.

Just my 15 cents...

 

[Dav4]

Personally, I think all the pots are ok with this tree, but some are better, imo. I love the glaze on the first rectangle, but I think it's a bit shallow for this thick trunked tree. The white oval is deep enough, but I think there is too much contrast between the white glaze and the dark green foliage. The blue-green rectangle in the third picture is my favorite for this tree. It's the right depth, the color is good, and I think this masculine tree looks better in a rectangle vs an oval. I like the green oval, too, but again, I'll take a rectangle over a square in this situation.

 

[Ross]

It looks like you might be taking the tree in a different direction, but personally I like the first pot, shallow and rectangular, tree potted back and to the left, with the apex leaning to the right. It looks like you could landscape a little scene under there if you wanted. I think a glazed pot would be the way to go because of the broad leaves, but don't like the white pot, because it really draws the eyes away from the tree, it's too bright in my opinion. Oh yeah, sweet tree! What prompted the carving seen in the last three pics?

 

[dick benbow]

I think the tree would be best presented in a glazed pot because the tree flowers and has berries. Depending on the color of the fruit, orange or red, you could pick a contrasting color that would really come into it's own during late summer and early fall.
The tree itself looks fairly masculine so I might favor a squarish pot with rounded corners.
Maybe something like in the third pic
I really like the tree. thanks for posting

 

[berobinson82]

I'm aware that this is an unpopular hue, but I really love to see some trees in white or cream colored pots. #2 all the way for me.

 

[fourteener]

#1

If I could mix pots I would use the depth and color of #1. I like the rounded corners of #3. Overall number one would be my choice. The shallow pot makes the tree feel bigger.

 

[Ron Dennis]

Brian, as you know, I love this tree. Of the pots shown, I prefer #3. It has a masculine feel to me.

What color are the berries? Have you tried other colors? I am wondering if a dark red or darker burnt orange may work.

I am trying to remember the older pot you had at a recent club meeting and if it would be right.

 

[jkd2572]

I like unglazed as well, but I'm partial to those.

 

[JudyB]

#1 first choice, #4 second choice. The white seems too refined for this tree, with it's masculine aura, but I like a color with it.

Of course, you know my record with matching trees to pots, so....

Great tree.

 

[Beng]

Technically I think the green pots would be best with the berries, or something baby blue. I don't know why I like it in the white pot best......

 

[dick benbow]

so
now that many have shared what they think, what did you get from all those opinions.
So often in threads i see conflicting information in what my schooling has taught and feel that in sharing I'm just wasting my time. So I'd like to get some feedback to see how the person who initiated the thread feels

 

[KennedyMarx]

I don't really like the green, but maybe it would look better when it's flowering or fruiting. I do like the white pot. I think an unglazed pot with nice patina would go best with it considering how rugged strong the trunk appears.

 

[buddhamonk]

I like the shallow rectangular pot but would prefer it in a cream color like the one at the bottom

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

so
now that many have shared what they think, what did you get from all those opinions.
So often in threads i see conflicting information in what my schooling has taught and feel that in sharing I'm just wasting my time. So I'd like to get some feedback to see how the person who initiated the thread feels

Sure. It's been several ovals in the past, but as shapes go, the soft rectangle Yamafusa seems best suited. The berries are orange, so I've always steered toward green pots, though I'd have no hesitation using an unglazed pot, because the shape is masculine and the bark is dark.

Yesterday, I dug an azalea and needed something to put it in. The pyracantha was next to be repotted, and the soft green rectangle was the right size for the azalea. I moved the pyracantha into the cream oval Yamafusa, thinking I'd like it. I like the tree, like the pot. Hated the combo, enough that I moved it to the aqua oval less than 24 hours later.

I bought that aqua oval on a hope it would work for the hawthorn, but it's simply too deep. Rather than leave a 19" wide Aiba Koyo pot on a shelf somewhere, I thought I'd store it under the pyracantha for a couple years.

The shallow rectangle does accentuate the trunk size, but I just really don't like that pot.

On carving it, that section died, and I left the bark intact as long as I could, but needed to address the drainage...it was holding water. My power tools carving skills are horrible, so I might ask Ryan to touch it up when he's here in November...

 

[garywood]

Briar, do you really mean, all this wasn't planned? You really didn't have 5 pots for each tree? You TEASE!!!!!

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Briar, do you really mean, all this wasn't planned? You really didn't have 5 pots for each tree? You TEASE!!!!!

No, but if I keep talking to Ryan Bell, I'll get there in spite of myself...