Another Bursera repotting

Another Bursera needs repotting as we get closer to the 2014 Show season.

This is a smaller specimen than the previous example, just out of a 1 gallon plastic pot, with the roots and weeds showing through the mostly pumice potting mix.  After cleaning off the old soil...

This has a long tap root, mostly non-functional but not rotting.  The long root makes it hard to properly pot.  The swollen trunk needs to be right at soil level.  A tall pot will accommodate the long root, but the small and relatively thin branches will look odd.  The long root was trimmed.  It was cut with standard clippers.  Repotting took place immediately after, with no drying of the cut or the remaining roots.

This gives much better options for shallower pots.

The left pot is one of mine, and although the color is right, it is too tall and angular for this plant.  It was the intended home until I got a good look at the roots.  The middle pot is a beautiful Erica Van Auker pot, but the pot texture is too complicated for this simple and small bursera, and the color is just a bit off.  The right pot is a Joe Wujcik pot, slightly deeper than the middle, and with colors and just enough texture to bring out the best in this pealing bark of the bursera.

Potted Bursera

The potted bursera, with a few remaining seeds still attached, and the first hints of leaves, probably too small to be seen in the photo.

Slab Pots from the kunanyi series

kunanyi

The top of kunanyi, better known as Mount Wellington, but a landscape with many names both indigenous caucasian.  I collected a small stone away from the top (This is a table mountain and goes for miles, and the 'top' is fairly arbitrary.  I've collected small stones from where ever I go and use these to build the patterns and textures that go into many of my pots.

The goal is to capture the atmosphere and the quiet.

It wasn't quiet here, it was windy and cold, with intermittent mist.

The third pot of the series

The last of the first four.  These are all stoneware, with iron oxide stain.

More of the wonderful rock and lichen

Ericas and grasses

I need to go back