Blue Pots

[craigw60]

Hi Nathan,
I have been thinking about your yellow pot this colour is very rare in pots and if I were you I would be reluctant to part with it. There is a plant species which is sometimes grown as a bonsai called Callicarpa japonica which has purple berries over the winter. I reckon it would be great in a yellow pot.
Regards from Craig

[NathanM]

Hi Craig,
Thanks for your feedback mate It's actually the pot I am mos reluctant to sell. I think I might take it down
I'm defiantely going to look into Callicarpa japonica though! See if I can get anything local....
Thanks for the tip mate!
Nathan

[craigw60]

Hi Nathan,
If you can't find a callicarpa I could post you one in the winter bare rooted. I always have a few kicking around.
Craig

[Jarrod]

It's funny you mention yellow pots. I have been looking (for some rime) for a good quality octagonal pot in a yellow glaze that's about 30cm across. This will be for a purple flowering boug that's posted on here some where. Would consider a hexagonal as well!

[Ron]

Hmmm ... not sure I should comment in this thread, but anyway ... just got back from spending a small fortune in a major hardware retailer whose name, I believe, is best not mentioned on the forum and so very many of the bonsai pots in all sizes were mainly blue.

[craigw60]

Ron
Let me guess starts with B and ends with S
Craig

[Ron]

Ron
Let me guess starts with B and ends with S
Craig

Ha ... you win, Craig. I'm busily trying to get the wire off two trees I bought there (an alder and a Fraxinus griffithi. I don't know how long they have been in B&^%$&s but the wire was lightly embedded in the trunk of the Frax and the alder still had its root holding wire from the last re-pot (and I think that was *quite* some time ago). Just did not notice the wire in the shop despite spending 90" going backwards and forwards trying to decide to buy them.

Anyway, I'm totally in love (is that the right word to use fellow bonsaists?) with them already and will post pics when we finally have weather that doesn't resemble nightfall.

Whoever runs their garden dept out to be throughly ashamed. There were some expensive trees, such as a Japanese. elm with an impressive trunk and branch system, and they were all dead! It just made me sad to think the trees were cared for for 10 years or so and then died at the hands of B%$(*&%s.

[anttal63]

What is wrong with blue pots? As to the comment "blue and green should never be seen ..." - have you never seen a tree against sky or a stretch of water? Blue and green is a marvellous combination in gardens, interior design and design in general.

i have never heard that.

[NathanM]

Hi Nathan,
If you can't find a callicarpa I could post you one in the winter bare rooted. I always have a few kicking around.
Craig

Thank you for the offer, Craig. If I don't have any luck up here, I'll certainly take you up on that offer ^_^ Do you have any as bonsai?

[craigw60]

Hi Nathan,
I have been growing callicarpa for a while and never thought of it as bonsai material then a couple of days ago a was taking some cuttings from shrubs in my neighbors garden and I saw one with a really nice thick gently curved trunk and I jumped back over the fence and googled callicarpa bonsai, there they were.
I have full permission from the neighbors to dig that one so no I don't have any as bonsai but soon will.
Craig

[Jan]

I have a Berberis "Rosy Glow" in an odd shade of pale blue (slightly muddy?) pot; it works a treat with the "varigated spring foliage ranging from silvery cream and light pink to rose and brilliant red". The tiny white flowers work well with it, too.

A white wisteria in a green varigated with a blue wash through it works well too.

Jan