Accents and more accents. Link to the Swindon & District Bonsai Society Blog showing photos from the recent Magical Accents Show. Click on the link and then click on the slide show.
Tag Archives: accent
Hosta Relocate
As my collection of Hostas keeps growing, I decided to relocate them to a shadier spot in the garden as I felt that there old spot with the rest of the accents was to sunny. Here’s the corner they now occupy between two of the poly tunnels. Note the grit try they are sitting in.
Kusamono
I put this kusamono together a few years back. It was my first attempt at a mixed planting as opposed to the usual one pot one plant accent. It’s actually starting to mature nicely, shame about the pot now. That’s a little bit of Irish mud rock in there.
Love/Hate!!
I have a real love of wild birds, always have. My Dad was always pointing out birds when I was young and it has stuck with me.
I like watching them bounce around my trees beside the window were I sit at the computer.
Today I was typing away happily and all was as it should be on the benches. A few minutes later I spotted this.
My Orchid accent had been hauled out of the pot and scattered. A quick look around the benches and I spotted the offender.
More Accents
I’ve been splitting and potting up more accents. I wanted to make use of a few pots I got at the BSA exhibition.
This is a Lichen with red flowering trumpets in a Suteki pot.
Some Japanese Horsetail, also suteki pot.
and another suteki pot with an unknown plant, answers on a post card please 🙂
All still to mature but I’ll keep you posted.
Accents
I caught up with an old friend this week. Robert Porch is in N Ireland seeing family and called with me. Robert taught me a lot about bonsai and is probably one of the most understated, under estimated bonsai artists in the UK.
He brought a selection of accent plants with him and we managed to do a few swaps.
Some of the trays of accents available.
I got my hands on a dwarf Astilbe.
Snowbell
Hosta, he had about 7 varieties with him!
Dwarf grasses
Clean Up
As part of my concerns regarding the health of my maples I emptied my maple greenhouse today and disinfected it from top to bottom.
I also renewed my accent and mame grit trays. I spent a little time splitting some of my pot bound accent plants and potting on some cork bark elm cuttings too. A productive afternoon and long over due!!
Petit-arbre.com
One of the best parts of having a blog is the great folk who you make contact with. A week or so ago I got chatting with Xavier from France who has his own blog www.petit-arbre.com [now upgraded to bonsai friends list to the right →] He liked the coltsfoot I had featured and we got to talking, anyway, one thing led to another and I received a parcel yesterday from Xavier containing a selection of Hostas and Rhodohypoxis 🙂 Another parcel is winging it’s way to France with some Coltsfoot and other oddities. This is what Bonsai is all about, or in this case, kusamono 🙂
To visit Xaviers Website click on the image link below. Google translate works very well from French to English.
Pleione Orchid Accent
This Pleione Orchid is emerging and will flower in the next few days. Short lived flower but worth it.
Coltsfoot Accent
Nothing like a sunny day to get the most out of this Coltsfoot accent.
Bonsai Eejit 