The Five Year "Native Tree, Native Pot" Challenge!

[Forsoothe!]

I don't really have much money for a pot, I have clay. How durable must it be

Remember the Purists insist that the pot not overwhelm the tree, -and patina is highly valued. You'll get extra points!

 

[ProfessorFarnsworth]

I went the super native route and hiked a slab down from the mountain. I have yet to collect the lodgepole pine I'm hoping to find for it. I hope collecting the tree doesn't hurt as much the slab.

 

[SeanS]

In!

 

[Flowerhouse]

Guess I could make another few.
This was my last cement pot, made 2 years ago or so. Planting not mine.
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This pot is amazing. Is there a thread where you teach how to do this? I'm not sweating the pot yet. Tree first, then pot to complement tree.

 

[leatherback]

This pot is amazing. Is there a thread where you teach how to do this? I'm not sweating the pot yet. Tree first, then pot to complement tree.

Nope. Just made a few as practice. Decided they are too bulky and that other people are much better at making nice pots.

 

[Wood]

I'm a rank beginner, but I'm in. Whee!

 

[Woocash]

I'm a rank beginner, but I'm in. Whee!

Good. After 5 years you won’t be! (A beginner that is)

 

[Sunwyrm]

I'm in!

 

[Jorgens86]

Im in

 

[Woocash]

Its good theres so many participants. Anyone else struggling to narrow down starter material as well though? I’ve got at least 20 candidates in just hawthorn, let alone maples and elms etc. What’s a good number to play with do we think?

 

[leatherback]

What’s a good number to play with do we think?

'bout one less than one too many, or so.

 

[Woocash]

'bout one less than one too many, or so.

Ah yes, sage advice. So basically when the boss says enough is enough. +1 or 2.

 

[leatherback]

the boss

You can just say you to me?

 

[Dryad]

Bit late to the game, but count me in also!

 

[MorddexxBonsai]

Sounds fun I'll give this a go.

 

[Underdog]

I'm gonna get in with a couple small Viburnum hedges currently in the ground by my patio.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

I'm in. I didn't even see this contest, but I will participate with two natives I just collected this past weekend...

 

[Sekibonsai]

Yeah I'll play...

 

[HorseloverFat]

Its good theres so many participants. Anyone else struggling to narrow down starter material as well though? I’ve got at least 20 candidates in just hawthorn, let alone maples and elms etc. What’s a good number to play with do we think?

I understand.... Fall collecting at the SAME time as sorting through candidates feels oddly reminiscent of “going grocery shopping while hungry”... I feel I also have an enormous amount of consideration to “whomp” any indecisiveness.

My last few “Autumn Collections” were natives.. but I didn’t even make threads for them... They didn’t need the “pressure”.. and, I guess I concur.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Most of my trees are natives, dug up in the yard or from collected seed... so I'm limiting myself to only what Ive just recently procured or can procure. I would love to include my Alder or silver maple, but theyve been with me for several years and I like the idea of the contest being a way to push myself to improve material which, in my opinion, may have more potential.