I have a lot of accent hitting their best at the moment, so I’m going to pop one or two up each day until I run out of plants or interest, whichever comes first 🙂
Lewisia
Category Accent Plantings
May Accents
Sea Thrift
Sea Thrift
Mukademia
Wild Strawberry
Hosta Tumbelina
Hurry Up Hostas
Thanks to a bit of swapping this year I have lots of new mini Hostas, I just wish they would get a move on so I can see what they are like! This last week has seen a bit warmer weather and they are now starting to respond well.
Beach Accent
I picked up this little plant on a walk along the coast last year. I noticed it among the rocks and loved the flower. Initially I thought it would be too big for an accent but I noticed some in a garden lawn that had self seeded there. With the grass being cut every few weeks, the plant had adapted and was flowering tight to the grass level. This one needs to fill out to fill the pot but you can see from the flowers that it’ll make a nice accent next year.
Rick’s Fern
When I was in Florida a few years back I picked up this little fern courtesy of Rick J who’s bonsai collection I visited. I just love the red foliage. I keep it permanantly in the poly tunnel and it seems to work. I managed to split it in the Autumn and ended up with three. One now resides in Scotland. Pot by Susan Francesca Hunter
Spring – Accents
Soldanella
Soldanella
Accent Friendship
I may have mentioned a few weeks back about swapping some accents with Xavier in France. He has kindly mentioned me on his blog showing the Soldanella that I sent in flower.
Here is his Soldanella and the lovely pot that he put it in. If you want to know more about the pot, read his post here. Google translate is my friend 😉
Kusamono Links
I spent a little time over the last few weeks splitting, sorting and searching for new varieties of accent plants. As I’m in the mood, I have shared a few links here for some great posts and sites showing kusamono.
Kusamono of Taikan-ten 2012
Kusamono of Taikan-ten 2011
The Art of Kusamono
Dan Barton Accent Page 1 of 10 pages
These varieties are on my wish list is anybody knows of someone who has a spare 😉
Eleocharis montavideus — Dwarf rush
Xavier Heaven
Yesterday saw my parcel arrive from Xavier in France. This is the second year when we have swapped accent plants.
Too many plants to name but among them are several varieties of Hosta, Rhodohypoxis, some Sedum, Saxafraga, Mukdenia, Ledebouria, etc. The list goes on. Most were big enough for me to split further and I ended up with 30+ plants! I had to make up more mix!!
Well packed
Well labelled too. I always misplace labels but I spent a little time making sure my splits were labelled too.
One of the Saxafraga
Potted up and in the green house out of the wind and snow flurries!
Thanks Xavier.
A Few New Ones
Bonsai folk are great, always willing to swap a few accent plants. Every time Robert Porch visits us over here, he has a tray of accents for me. I end up scrambling around to try and find something for him that he hasn’t got. Not an easy task!!
Here are a few shots I took before the snow a few days ago. The ever increasing collection.
My new Soldanella Minima, loads of growth this year, and then split it 🙂
Another new Soldanella but with a larger flower by the looks of the dead flower stock. Can’t wait to see what it’s like but will be at least a year away now!
and one about to flower 🙂
Another new one that I was told the name of and now I have forgotten!!! Begins with E I think. Know it? Please comment 🙂
Another unknown from Robert, he didn’t have a clue either. I watch it this year with interest lol
and an old one, Coltsfoot starting to show flower heads, one of my favourite Spring accents. Going to try and force it on in the green house for the Spring Show.
In among the accents on the trays is this newly collected Heather.
Bonsai Eejit 