How To Choose The Right Pot?

midwestbonsai

I am just wondering how everybody chooses the right pot for your bonsai.
You know size, color, texture and so on.


I know there is alot writen about this in books, but I want real peoples thought and ideas.


Deciduous
Coniferous
Tropical


thanks all
-Paul

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Carl_Bergstrom

Who do you think writes books? Robots?

Dave DeGroot's book treats this topic nicely. A recent issue of Bonsai Today also goes a fair way in the right direction.

-Carl

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midwestbonsai

I thought that computers did everything!
j/k

looking for the Experiences of people on this forum.

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mike_p

Paul, this is a subject that can provoke heated discussion among bonsai folks.
"It's too big". "It's too small". "The glaze is wrong". "Shouldn't have a glaze".
"How could you put a tree like that in a oval pot?" "That bonsai is too feminine for a square pot". YADA-YADA-YADA-ad infinitum. Been down that road
Read the books on pot selection. Go to exhibits and study the pot choices, and see what you like and why. Look at books and magazines with great bonsai in them and see what sort of tree is in what pot, and do you like it? And if not why not.
Matt's "Tree of the Day" thread is a good place to lurk, and see what he posts and what others come up with.
For instance, this TOD: http://forum.bonsaitalk.com/showthread.php?t=11400
I loved the tree but hated he pot, so I went thru my bonsai image archive until I came across the pot I did a virtual with. I picked it first for the glaze. I felt that the main color was good for the tree and also the variations in color.
I also like the shape of the pot.
This was my thought process in this situation.

Regards

Mike

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Ian_Homer

Here is a link to a "general" guide.

As discussed in TOTD recently, any rules and guides can be broken. It is very much down to taste of the individual. Often, in your own eyes, it either looks right or it does not.

http://www.walsall-studio-ceramics....s/Page3090.html

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mwall

There is tons of information on styling and picking the proper pot, My suggestion would be to read as much as you can. But you have to do what you like. If you are like me it will be many years untill you show any trees. So for right now, style and pot them the way you like. Many mistakes are made, but thats how you learn. If you follow everyones opinion, it will be hard to develope your own.

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