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.
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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 🙂
Magic Ceramics
I’ve just posted a sales page for accent pots by Magic Ceramics. Magic, or to be true to his real name ‘MACIEJ’ Targosinski is a great bloke who I met through the Leinster Bonsai Club.
He has a passion for bonsai especially mame but has turned his hand to ceramics. I asked him to make some more accent pots and well, things got out of hand 🙂 So here we are now with myself helping him promote his accent pots via my blog. He has a great range of ideas and sizes with glazes galore! He has another batch coming before Christmas which I can’t wait to see.
I’m not making money out of this partnership although I do get my pick of the pots which is a nice perk 😉 I think that it’s important to support new and local talent and Maciej certainly fits the bill.
If you are interested in any of the pots please note the reference number and enquire via my ‘Contact Me’ tab at the top of the page.
PAS Pottery
At Burrs last Sunday (has it really been a full week?) I had the pleasure of meeting Patricia from PAS Pottery who had an amazing collection of shohin and accent pots for sale.
These pots where made in Shigaraki in Japan where she spent 4 months learning some new ceramic techniques. We had a good chat about some of the techniques she used in creating her pots and her passion for ceramics was clear to see. These are a few of the photos that I took. I even managed to buy a pot for a shohin Juniper I have. I deliberated for ages about the size as she had a slightly bigger one there. I opted for the smaller pot, and you guessed it, it’s too small!! Always good to have the tree with you 🙂
Here’s a few more from Patricia’s Site. Also follow her on Facebook .
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.
Sugarplum Fairy
Saxifrage Sugarplum Fairy, ready for an accent pot next year. Love the flowers on this one.
Mukdenia Autumn Colour
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?
saxifraga sp?
?
Epimedium sp?
Have the name somewhere 🙂
saxifraga sp?
Astilbe ?
sisyrinchium
?
rose
cotoneaster with something else?
Silene ?
Ivy
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?
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.
Bonsai Eejit 