What kind of tree/set up can you see in this pot?

[Mara of dragon clan]

By fortune and fate, a small favour landed me this inherited pot as their token of appreciation. Their grandfather was a known artist around these parts and due to an injury at old age, has transfered his bonsai and belongings to his grandchildren.


There were so many pots available to pick from... some maybe even more priceless than this, it just so happens most who know me in person consider me a dragon... how could i choose any other?

What tree can you see in this?

50cm x 33 cm x 12 cm

 

[Mara of dragon clan]

A view of the pot selections. A small pile to the right was not in view

 

[DonovanC]

A sturdy but flowing broadleaf evergreen...

 

[Adair M]

And a copy of Naka’s Techniques 2.

That’s worth some money.

 

[Potawatomi13]

Way too small a tree

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

I assume you took the pot, or was it pots? If you got everything there, you got a nice haul.

The dragon pot is "production grade" Chinese, not a high end pot, but very useable. Its size, 50 x 33 x 12 cm (roughly 20 in x 13.5 inches x 4 inches) is large enough for a good size ficus, either informal upright or banyan style. It is big enough for a forest of trees, a forest of 7 trees about 30 cm tall would work. The color is good for flowering bonsai. A bougainvillea could work.

Note, I see a few chips and cracks. This pot will not be winter hardy. Freeze-thaw cycling will take this pot apart in one winter. So use if for tropicals or for trees you protect from freezing.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

The color will work with ficus.

 

[just.wing.it]

I was also thinking Ficus for the dragon.....or some tropical.

 

[Mara of dragon clan]

And a copy of Naka’s Techniques 2.

That’s worth some money.

It even had a personalized dedicated poem to the original owner of the book

"Last leaf has fallen
Tree will sleep and i will dream
Spring is tommorow"

 

[Mara of dragon clan]

I assume you took the pot, or was it pots? If you got everything there, you got a nice haul.

The dragon pot is "production grade" Chinese, not a high end pot, but very useable. Its size, 50 x 33 x 12 cm (roughly 20 in x 13.5 inches x 4 inches) is large enough for a good size ficus, either informal upright or banyan style. It is big enough for a forest of trees, a forest of 7 trees about 30 cm tall would work. The color is good for flowering bonsai. A bougainvillea could work.

Note, I see a few chips and cracks. This pot will not be winter hardy. Freeze-thaw cycling will take this pot apart in one winter. So use if for tropicals or for trees you protect from freezing.

I recieved one pot

Lol darn there were some signed pots there and also some personal pots the owner made himself which i thought were personally wild. Ill continue consider but perhaps the person who gave this to me will allow me to exchange

 

[penumbra]

ficus for sure around here

 

[Mara of dragon clan]

Im bout to fill this tank with serissas

On a more serious note, i wonder if a variety of trees would work for forest, or if it needs to be all the same specie. Fukien mixed with serissas and bougainvilea could make for a sweet unorthodox layout.

Also think of putting a sepearate bowl inside to have a pond feature

 

[Potawatomi13]

It even had a personalized dedicated poem to the original owner of the book

"Last leaf has fallen
Tree will sleep and i will dream
Spring is tommorow"

Melancholy poem last 2 hours of Summer and already long for Spring.

 

[Beanwagon]

Nice pot i have a ficus in mine.

 

[rockm]

I assume you took the pot, or was it pots? If you got everything there, you got a nice haul.

The dragon pot is "production grade" Chinese, not a high end pot, but very useable. Its size, 50 x 33 x 12 cm (roughly 20 in x 13.5 inches x 4 inches) is large enough for a good size ficus, either informal upright or banyan style. It is big enough for a forest of trees, a forest of 7 trees about 30 cm tall would work. The color is good for flowering bonsai. A bougainvillea could work.

Note, I see a few chips and cracks. This pot will not be winter hardy. Freeze-thaw cycling will take this pot apart in one winter. So use if for tropicals or for trees you protect from freezing.

Agreed. This kind of pot is not reliably winter hardy. Freezes can make it flake and even burst, since it has an incurved top. FWIW, I used to buy many of these kinds of pots from an importer in Dallas. He brought in hundreds of them. They are produced in Sichuan province for the most part. I found them too heavy and vulnerable to freezing to continue to use. I have only a couple left that are not used much.

Also FWIW, if you can, go back for the light tan square pot in the background on the left side of the photo. It looks promising...

 

[Mara of dragon clan]

Nice pot i have a ficus in mine.


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Jeez.. thank you for opening my eyes

 

[Mara of dragon clan]

Also FWIW, if you can, go back for the light tan square pot in the background on the left side of the photo. It looks promising...

The rectangle or the smalle square one inside the rectangle?

 

[Pitoon]

I would say a red flowering quince clump.

 

[rockm]

The rectangle or the smalle square one inside the rectangle?

The one you have circled. Not the one inside it. My feeling is that that pot is by a western potter (possibly Dale Cochoy, or other)

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

In the green pot, you could also put a pomegranate, or a pyracantha. The orange-red flowers of the pomegranate, and the orange-red fruit of the pyracantha would be nicely offset by the green glaze. The pomegranate is relatively easy as a summer outdoors and winter indoors sub-tropical. The pyracantha can be run that way too, though it likes a longer cool period in winter.