The Accent (Companion) Plant Thread

[Vincent Tanner]

My first try at an accent plant.

 

[Perplexody]

This is my accent moss with driftwood

 

[Wood]

Autumn tokonoma display at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum in DC currently. Mostly a native aster and grasses in the kusamono

 

[ShadyStump]

I really need to get on the kusimono. I have a couple pots much more suitable for that than trees, and I don't have many trees worth looking at yet anyway.

 

[Wood]

I really need to get on the kusimono. I have a couple pots much more suitable for that than trees, and I don't have many trees worth looking at yet anyway.

You owe a photo!

Kinda cheating, but the only photo of an accent plant I have on had. Tears of Joy mini hosta with a trident maple forest for our club show two weeks ago

 

[Shogun610]

I really need to get on the kusimono. I have a couple pots much more suitable for that than trees, and I don't have many trees worth looking at yet anyway.

If you wanna play on hard mode use natives only

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Promenea Partridge, an orchid hybrid in a 2 inch diameter pot. Hybrid originally made by Leon Glichtenstein of Hoosier's Orchids. The plant is no longer with me, just strolling thru my photo archive and thought I'd share a blast from the past.
Promenea are easy to grow, keep moist, this was grown in long fiber sphagnum. Bright shade, this was under old fashioned T-12 fluorescent shop lights. Very susceptible to snails and slugs.

 

[ShadyStump]

If you wanna play on hard mode use natives only

And now I want to go find a desert lilly, except it won't be in bloom until next summer.

You owe a photo!

You will most certainly get it.

 

[Wood]

Another kusamono at NBPM in DC. I thinned this out only three weeks ago (I'm a volunteer there) and it's exploded with new growth. Ophiopogon (black mondo grass) and some type of ferns. This one gives me a lot of Jurassic Park vibes

 

[Shogun610]

Sedum terrantum on lace rock , showing fall color

 

[Colorado]

Mountain Harebell - bit of fall seasonal interest with the seed pods. Few flowers still hanging on to dreams of summer

 

[Colorado]

Mammilaria Elongata Cristata

 

[Milly]

Zygo Cactus

 

[Milly]

Lachenalia Quadricolor and moss

 

[Underdog]

 

[AlainK]

Very nice. What's it called ?...

 

[AlainK]

Possible kusamono or shitakusa ?...

Anyway, one of my sons has a new flat, and a new job back to our hometown. Daddy went with him to a garden center because he wanted to repot some plants (a chip from the old block : he travelled hundreds of mile and kept his plants). We - I ! that's what dads are for ;°) bought some plants and pots and soil, but I couldn't resist buying some colour for the crassula cuttings I have by a window :



Not nice colours because of the flashlight, but the little Hypoestes adds some white to the green :




I also chose two Fittonia among others, a dark red, but the light green with red veins is absolutely gorgeous in "real life" :



Maybe they could make nice "accent plants"...

 

[Bricker918]

Sedum in oyster shells. Found them while digging up a flower bed and thought they might look cool with something in them.

 

[Wood]

Mondo grass shitakusa at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum

 

[Eckhoffw]

A little project I got from the hardware store.
Now if my cat would stop chewing at it!