The rock thread.

[PaulH]

A few of my favorites:

Bowl or pool stone, found in a pile of landscape river rock. Daiza by Jerry.




Twin peak mountain. Found in a creek on the ranch where I grew up in Healdsburg, CA. Daiza by me.


Limestone/volcanic stone found in Northern California. Daiza by me



The day I found the above stone.



Doha, plateau stone from Northern California. Daiza by me.

 

[wireme]

Wow, cool stuff. Are you going to treat the wood with preservative?

It seems to have made itself at home indoors out of the weather now so no, guess not.

I found this guy while scouting for trees in a snowstorm up on a mountainside. I call him old man winter.

 

[wireme]

A few of my favorites:

Bowl or pool stone, found in a pile of landscape river rock. Daiza by Jerry.

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Twin peak mountain. Found in a creek on the ranch where I grew up in Healdsburg, CA. Daiza by me.
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Limestone/volcanic stone found in Northern California. Daiza by me
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The day I found the above stone.

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Doha, plateau stone from Northern California. Daiza by me.
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Very, very nice! I love water pool stones probably more than anything and am always looking, hard to find good ones or at least I haven’t had much luck yet.

Nice to see them set in daiza too, I have carved a couple but generally consider it a job for another day and they wind up hanging around here and there being used as doorstops and stuff.

 

[wireme]

Grouper stone.

Natural wood that reminds me of watery waves with the fish rising. I should probably send it to Will someday.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Well, some rocks so I can play along.


Just sent Sean Smith a rock last week. So he can make me a daiza out of Bondo. So the rock can be displayed outside on the bench. Super stoked about it. Grimmy had likened it to... Gibraltar.

 

[PaulH]

I love water pool stones

Then here are a few more...

 

[Cadillactaste]

Grimmy always said this rock was to nice for ROR. It just arrived back from Sean Smith having a daiza made for it. Very pleased with the entire imagine.

 

[Lars Grimm]

Grimmy always said this rock was to nice for ROR. It just arrived back from Sean Smith having a daiza made for it. Very pleased with the entire imagine.
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I like the larger lip on this daiza. I don't feel like I see that quite as often, but it complements it nicely.

 

[Cadillactaste]

I like the larger lip on this daiza. I don't feel like I see that quite as often, but it complements it nicely.

Thanks... knowing nothing of daiza...I left everything to Sean. I'm not really knowledgeable in this aspect of viewing stones. But think it brings more to the table with it having a daiza under it. One that will permit it to weather on my bench from spring-fall. Is pretty cool. I chose not to use wood as the material chosen. But a weather proof material to last in the elements on a bench. Since I don't do shows and it's more for my amusement and enjoyment anyways.

 

[Cable]

I went trick-or-treating but all I got was a rock.

 

[Tycoss]

My last spring’s search for spruce trees also turned up this:
Looks like a screaming alien. My kids say you can see at least three faces depending on how you look.

 

[Tycoss]

This one came from the badlands where I was looking for amelancher. About the most complex little lava rock I’ve seen.

 

[W3rk]

I just randomly discovered this great video that Mauro Stemberger posted of a visit to Sean Smith where he talks about the artistry of Suiseki. Came here to post it and I see a number of people working with the same Sean Smith, good deal. Anyway this video was really informative.

 

[0soyoung]

Cairns seem to be legit in this thread even though it is dominated by suiseki and root overs.

 

[TomB]

A bunch of iron-rich sandstone I found locally. I'm probably going to cement a load of these together to create a platform for a tall rock planting.

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Work in progress...

 

[TyroTinker]

Work in progress...
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Looks good. Is this rock planting going to have plants too? If so where are you planning to plant?

Here is my rock Garage Sale special
I’m currently forgetting the name of it.
And I doubt I'm clever enough to use it in bonsai but I still like it

 

[TomB]

Looks good. Is this rock planting going to have plants too? If so where are you planning to plant?

Thanks. The plan is to use it for a cascade field maple bonsai I have that needs repotting. There is a cavity all the way down inside the rock arrangement so there should be plenty of room for roots.

 

[TomB]

I've seen stones like the one you show before, but I can't remember the name either! Nice as a curiosity / display object in its own right, without being used with bonsai.

 

[Tentakelaertje]

That's a desert rose, nice stuff.

Small quartz/slate rock:

 

[Tentakelaertje]

Took the time to play with some more stones the other day:


Made progress on this daiza too.