Great containers David.The pond is a stroke of genius.

I'm glad you liked my little country pond Lynn, Bev, and Jo Ann.

It is in fact a 150 gallon stock pond from Tractor Supply Lynn. A neighbor gave me the wood picket stuff around the sides a few years ago.

Thank you!

David those coleus Bonsai are awesome. You are blowing my mind. I was almost there a few years back. I kept one in a pot alive for 2 years and it was almost there and I had a illness in the family and did not care for it through the winter and it died.

Because I have to bring mine in for the winter it is a little more care intensive. Now that I have the time I think I will try again.

David,
You ideas are amazing!! Love the coleus trees and the old boots. I'll have to go back and really study the pictures, so much to see! Thanks for sharing your treasures.

Thank you very much for looking at my stuff and the kind words Julia, Cinta and everyone else.

I love containers a lot.

I was asked to create an easy care bowl by a local friend that they could give as a gift to a friend in one of my hypertufa bowls. They chose the prettier one. I always try to create 2 so they have a choice.

This was the leftover; but I thought I'd share it since its new and I liked it best actually. The drilled shell with the spaghnum packed little Nicaraguan Tillansia Ionata ( which stays tiny and turns hot pink in Winter and puts up beautiful vibrant purple and yellow stalks) is part of the bowl gift. A container gift with a container gift!

This particular Syngonium, Birdsnest Sanseveria, and the Starfish Bromeliads work well together and have been staples in most of my tropical easy care bowls. I've been propagating them for a few years. I am always amazed at how so few people really grow the little Starfish Bromeliads for spots everywhere! They are so cool and easy!

I agree David I love Starfish Bromeliads. I have another color I have to find the pic but this is my pink one. I like the plants you are combining. It is time to repot this one and since I am combining plants to bring it them in for the winter you are giving me some ideas.

David, your planter is absolutely wonderful in its simplicity as a result of your thoughtful selection of plants.

Thank you, and good morning!

Whenever I'm making the hypertufa pots,... I like to have completely unorganized childlike fun with the leftovers, and rapidly form the 'Cow patties' pots as I call them!
Schploop! Done!

Actually they look really terrestrial when planted, and I pack only sphagmum moss (not peat moss) tightly aroung the roots of the bromeliads or succulents I plant in them. Then I like to spin a little bit of living air plant, Spanish Moss around the base to give it a birds nest effect. (I grew the most incredible and fast multipying Haworthias for years in a 1" only layer of tightly packed sphagmun and no soil in an abalone shell for years, and just fed it once in a blue moon with liquid fertilizer)

Hypertufa. You can do it!



This picture is all about the central pot with the dangle on it and the plant in it. That is a really cool Tillandsia that that lives in some of the trees here, and this one fell from one in my back yard a couple of years ago. They look so cool in a pot.

David the pot ornamentation is quite interesting. May I ask if the greenish growth in the front of the planted bromeliad pot is part of the moss or is it another plant? I don't assume that your sphagnum moss over there would look like what I am used to looking at in the packages.

Your hypertufa is indeed very organic looking; My To-Do-New-Project List is officially closed until I start and finish the projects I have stuffed into a big box waiting for me to get to them. Once I entertained the thought of getting into bonsai and someone commented "You should have started one 20 years ago; it's too late now"

The only thing that held me back from making hypertufa is I cannot lift the bag of cement. It is just to heavy. The best I can do is use styrofoam and make pretend hypertufa.

I agree with Bev. I like your plant arrangements a lot and could not put my finger on why they were so attractive until Bev made me see why. They are "simplistic" is the reason. They draw you in and and you want to look at each plant. No one takes center stage but each are special.

Its Tillandsia usneoides Bev,

The airplant you are so familiar with seeing in the South hanging from trees. Heres a picture of a batch of some in my back yard. It turns a pretty green when wet and doubles as a great cover up for soil in pots here. Thank you for asking. (Thats the picture) It turns a pretty green after a rain or watering...
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I've always loved Asian art Cinta. Simplicity is one of their concepts, and I promise you I do not always adhere to it! HaHaHaHaHaaaa!

The wide ledges on this particular style of pot add to the framing, and lends itself to personalization. A simple old coin or any trinket, even holiday related left on the ledge would create added interest for instance.

A simple small glass ball ornament and a piece of tinsel thrown in might create the effect of a Christmas found unexpectedly in a walk through a tropical jungle!......................................................It would be fun as a centerpiece on a table in Florida anyway!

Thank you!

Thanks for the ID of that tillandsia.

Wow, we don't have that growing in our trees.

We have that hanging off our trees but we call it snow. A lot of "D" snow.

Funny Cinta!

"I've always loved Asian art Cinta. Simplicity is one of their concepts, and I promise you I do not always adhere to it! HaHaHaHaHaaaa!"

I can see that in your design. I too like the Simplicity concept of Asian design I used it in one of my rooms and my entire house to great extent. I do not like a lot of furniture in a room sparse furniture with Asian decor pieces, white on white on white with a pop of a shocking or dark, dark color in a spot. It is fun in a pot and in a room.

question, are those bonsais of the coleus inky fingers, i am in posession of that hybrid

Cinta!
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Yes! That is exactly what they are Rhamel. You should try one!