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Looking at those bags of soil and the juniper in the background, gave me much to think about. I had started to think I may design this tree in a semi-cascade. After looking at all morning, I felt the safe bet was to style it into a slanting style. Anyway.. I had the soil bagged and ready for the nursery. I took the boxes full of soil to the nuresery and began looking for the correct pot that would fill my needs.

I found the pot I wanted. It was the correct size. The correct shape. the correct color. It is very dark brown, very masculine, and very formal. It has a band around the bottom and has flaring lip. It should be great for a very masculine, driftwood, slanting style tree.

The pot measures 24" x 17" x 7".It is a little larger than the box it is in now, which should be a pot large enough for this tree for many years. The pot has sides a full 3/4" thick and weighs in at 42 pounds empty. The tree planted it in will be heavy indeed. The pic of me with the pot will give you some idea to its size.

I can hardly wait for spring, with all the shohin I have to go into first time exhibition pots, the petrified wood planting, the land/water penjing, and the two huge junipers going into exhibition pots this year, I am salivating already.