Feb 22 2015

Agapanthus Accent

First Accent of 2015 potted up yesterday in a nice Magic Ceramic Pot.

An unusual choice for an accent but it’s been getting smaller every year. This year will tell if it’s going to be a success.

Feb 20 2015

Accent Season Approaches

Delighted to get home yesterday to find a parcel. Wasn’t expecting anything but Xavier, who I swap with every year had surprised me. Not just plants this time but a very nice wood fired pot as well. Some new hostas and a Sisyrinchium Alba that I’m looking forward to seeing in flower. All now potted up, some put straight into Magic pots too 🙂

Oct 2 2014

Some Maciej Pots

or should I say Magic 🙂

Bonsai friendship at it’s best yet again. Maciej from the Leinster Club was up with us for the Bonsai School last weekend and give me a lovely gift of accent pots that he has started making. Here are a few of his pots.Watch this space for more information soon.

Aug 27 2014

Sugarplum Fairy

Saxifrage Sugarplum Fairy, ready for an accent pot next year. Love the flowers on this one.

Aug 24 2014

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Mukdenia Autumn Colour

Aug 22 2014

Accent Man Cometh

I had a visit from Robert Porch, aka the Accent man a few days ago. Sadly I missed him at the house, but he did leave this crate of goodies.

This is the contents, only 3 of the 30 are named, so this is a bit of a quiz, if you recognises any of the varieties please let me know. There are a few Alliums, Saxafrage, hosta, rose etc in there.

Allium Blue ?

Allium ?

Allium

Hosta sp?

hosts sp?

Blue Grass sp?

Red Rooster Hosta

Saxifraga sp?

saxifraga sp?

Willow

Saxifraga

saxifraga sp?

Epimedium sp?

Have the name somewhere 🙂

saxifraga sp?

Astilbe ?

sisyrinchium

rose

cotoneaster with something else?

Silene ?

Ivy

Aug 11 2014

Rubus

Cultivating this Rubus for accent use this year. It’s got a Taiwanese origins I believe, at least that’s what I think I was told by Pat when I got it from him! This is it’s flower. It’s staying tight in the pot which is a good sign, no big runners like a bramble!! Be interesting to see if it sets fruit. Anybody know the name of it?

Aug 9 2014

Agapanthus Snow Pixie

Whilst browsing through the multitudes of stock at Bali Hai nursery last year I decided to give a small variety of Agapanthus a go for a Kusamono. I actually got 3 varieties but this one has come out the best. It’s Snow Pixie. I’m hoping that with a few years in a pot the flower will produce a shorter stalk but if it doesn’t, I think I’m happy with the result. Maturity will help. Not quite open yet, I’ll post again when in flower flower.

Aug 8 2014

Rose Cuttings

I have 3 mini roses acquired from Jose over in Tenerife . At the weekend I decided to take a few cutting to increase my stock. I took a cutting about a week ago and popped it into the humidity layer I put some of my accents on and this was the result. I guest it worked.

I took cuttings from all three roses and potted them into a mix of fine cat litter and fine pumice. Well see how it goes. The parent rose in this kusamono planting is very vigorous as you can see from the roots.