3 year old Juniper

I will probably put this in the ground to fatten up.

It's really neat looking, I think. I never thought about planting it, then potting it up again.

Wouldn't it be safer in a large pot or planter?

Yeah, it would have been safer. Too late now- I lost it in the move, LOL! Wonder where it wound up at. Hmm.

Looks good I have never had luck with any bonsai's don't with know what I did wrong with them but I love the way they look....

Did you bring them inside? Junipers are outside plants only.

They were all houseplants I kept inside when I lived in Houston and the nursery I got them from gave out instructions on the plant but still I killed it..
Maybe I will try again in the future and see what happens.

Lord I miss that pot. :|

I can see why. That pot had a nice shape and character. I misplaced one in our move here, but I am hoping it will show up when I pack to move to Atlanta. I bought it almost 30 years ago and I can't afford to replace it at todays prices, even if I could find one I liked as well. Good pots are really pricey. I am going to purchase an assortment of the mica pots when I have spare cash, just to have them on hand.

I go on line and yearn over the pots made by Horst Heinzlereiter and Elsbeth Ludvigsen. One day I will be at a national or regional show where a dealer has their pots and I will spend all my disposable income on hand thrown and hand built pots. Or maybe even my childrens' inheritance. After all, good pots arehard to come by.

Beth

It's worth making your own for the prices they charge. They're not that hard to do.

But it does help if you have a kiln or access to one. Do you throw on a wheel or hand build your own pots? I have the intent to do so when I get relocated as a friend in Atlanta has offered me kiln space in her firings. Even so I do like the pots of the two potters I mentioned.

Beth

I use clay from the yard, it has nearly no organic matter in it. I forget what I mixed with it though. Imma have to come back to this when I get a chance to really think about it. lol
I do remember just shaping them by hand and letting them dry in the sun like adobe.
I also remember I forgot to add something I was supposed to, sand maybe, and they eventually broke.
Darn it, I had this all figured out last year, LOL! Was gonna sell some. Hmm
*gets to thinking*

For plants that can tolerate some lime leaching into soil, the various papercrete formulas might work, especially for accent pots and the rougher primative pots. I would really like to work in stoneware fired to cone 5 or 6. I have several sheets of designs in my sketch book, some as simple as a slab draped over a bowl (or ash tray) and some quite complex.

Most of my designs are intended for kusamono since there seems to be more tolerance for presentation innovations there. I wish there were as much appreciation for kusamono as a separate class here in the US as there seems to be in Europe and in Japan. The only kusamono club I have found is a newly formed one in England, which really doesn't do me much good here is SW Georgia.

Beth