how to match tree to pot? or pot to tree?

[paddles]

I just bought a new pot....



now I need to figure out which tree to put into it... I know I might be going about this the wrong way, but, I saw this pot and fell in lust immeadiately, and I'm sure that I can find a tree to put in it


I have these trees to consider, but I am never that certain with size ratio between tree and pot.......
so here are the trees that I have, all with a coke can beside so you have an idea of size.....

Serrisa
Unknown, possibly a plum
plum, with awesome movement
deodora Ceder
Cherry

The last picture is a Cherry from Bodiharma... and would sort of be ironic to put into this pot, as he has a larger version of it, which he was unable to sell me (Cause I wouldn't have been able to afford the black pine he had in it, and I couldn't persuade him to take the pine out of the pot

[Jamie]

i think you answered your own question a bit there mate how did the pine look in the larger pot bodiharma has??

and is that a formal upright pine i see or a cedar? either or, very similar, although i dont think a formal upright will suit the round pot..

i think you should find a bunjingi or get stock to make a bunjingi and do that and you can enter the contest while your at it and learn some about the style or get invlolved in the discussion and teach?

jamie

[dayne]

hi may b something semi cascade like a pyrocanthia, fukian or somthing with flowers or fruit

[Lynette]

My thoughts are that whatever you put in this pot it should be a very Chinese style, maybe with lots of movement. I feel the tall legs are a bit high for a bunjin, but the semi cascade option might be good.
Lynette

[stymie]

Its a bit deep in relation to width so it would possibly suit a flowering or fruiting variety of tree. The semi-cascade suggestion from Dayne is also valid.

[paddles]

i think you answered your own question a bit there mate how did the pine look in the larger pot bodiharma has??

and is that a formal upright pine i see or a cedar? either or, very similar, although i dont think a formal upright will suit the round pot..

i think you should find a bunjingi or get stock to make a bunjingi and do that and you can enter the contest while your at it and learn some about the style or get invlolved in the discussion and teach?

jamie

I had to think about this a bit,

The pine that bodiharma has in his did not look as good as one of my trees would look (Just kidding bodi, it looked awesome) I'm thinking of going with the semi cascade idea, (Of course I don't have a semi cascade, but that can be remedied )

bunjingi is not a style that I am fond of (Of course there are some wonderful, georgious trees out there) and since my trees are nothing out of the ordinary, I wouldn't like to put one forward into a comp.

and lastly, Me? Teach? ..... what? what not to do?