succulents

My sister was in town last week and we made the rounds of the local garage sales one morning. Right off the bat, I scored a bag of spaghnum moss. My sister found a pair Churchill fins for $5.00. The next garage sale didn’t look too promising, but I ended up with two bonsai pots and a classic book on Japanese floral design. We were on bikes so we had to offload our purchases a couple of times while we shopped.

My most interesting purchase was one of the bonsai pots, or as I realized later, a Hon Non Bo pot. The difference between Bonsai and Hon Non Bo is that the latter involves a little water feature. The pot I bought does have tubing through the back of the tall rock feature, but considering my luck with water features, I won’t utilize it.

I took the pot, cleaned it up, removed the sad jade plant and worked on plant placement for a while. I had bought little rocks that look like little pieces of jade (stone) so I put those on the “water” side of the dish. I had a jade plant that I’ve been training for about a year that fit perfectly on the planted side of the pot, plus some other succulents that sit low on the pot. I was also able to place some small succulents on the tall rock structure which I think added a nice balance. I’m happy with the end result. I don’t think the picture does it justice but you get the idea.

The final bonus is the ugly jade plant that came with the pot. I repotted it, stripped off some of the leaves, and slowly worked one of the branches into a curve toward a future bonsai succulent. All in a good day’s work! BTW, I love this brown pot. The color is a nice contrast for a lot of the succulents I plant. I think I got it at Target, and I need to get some more.

Here’s a past 3000Tomatoes.com post that talks more on the subject of succulent bonsai.

Tagged as: bonsai, garage sales, succulents

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