Some pots for the new gallery

Folks ,Thanks for the concern and good thoughts. We are both mending, albeit slowly.

While I had some time I managed to put together another photo article for Paul Stokes' "ofBonsai Magazine". It is about a huge Arborvitae group planting I did this spring with the help of Gib Butler from the Akron, Ohio club. We used 5 VERY old, large plants from Canada and Nova Scotia. I had 10 to pick from in my collection and we settled on 5.
Please give it a read and let me know what you think.

http://ofbonsai.org/galleries/progressions/creating-a-large-arborvitae-group



D.

Hi Dale,
A great story and I really like the forest, reminds me of the ancient rain forests we have here in the PNW. I look forward to seeing what you do with it over the coming years.
Sending along best wishes on your recovery.
Cheers
Graham

Glad to "see" you back and recuperating, Dale.

JimLewis wrote:Glad to "see" you back and recuperating, Dale.

ABSOLUTELY, Sorry to hear about your accident. Here's hoping for a full and speedy recovery.

Have a great week!!!!
Sam

Glad to hear your on the road to recovery Dale.

Dale,

Good to see you back on line.

(Ya might wanna avoid those 81 pound containers for a while though! )

Quite a project that was!

[quote="Dale Cochoy"]Folks ,Thanks for the concern and good thoughts. We are both mending, albeit slowly.

Dale it does take time but will get there in the end. I'm talking from experience, some years ago now i fell through a roof is working on and did some serious damage to my spine.
Take it easy don't rushing things ( i learned this the hard way unfortunately) build your strength back up gradually.

Take care

cheers
Vic

Thanks guys,
Vic, I also did just about the same thing years ago, I had a serious fall in the Navy aboard ship at 23 years old. It put me out of the Navy after 4 yrs, 3mo in. I bounced better 40 years ago!

D.

Great to see you back online, Dale. Take it easy. We all need you to make a full recovery, but in your body's own time!

Dale, I'm glad to hear that you are getting better. I enjoyed reading about your cedar group planting and like your composition. Do you have to provide extra protection for the cedars in Ohio for the Winter?
Todd

Todd Ellis wrote:Dale, I'm glad to hear that you are getting better. I enjoyed reading about your cedar group planting and like your composition. Do you have to provide extra protection for the cedars in Ohio for the Winter?
Todd

todd, I just normally set the pots on the floor of my unheated greenhouse which is only a few degrees above outside, but, no wind. This group will PROBABLY just be set on the ground behind the bench it's on and then mulch in the pot. It will be fairly well protected from the wind there. Too much trouble to get moved back/forth to the greenhouse.

D.

Here is a shot of the "Ohio Serpent Mound" pot I made for Mitch Boatman of "Cedarbog Bonsai" in Ohio.
It is unglazed and hand-carved with a re-calculated aspect ratio so as to fit on the height of the pot he requested. A bit of work in tracing / redrawing a photo of the mound.
Mitch took this picture with his daughters kitty.

Here are the rest of the "Serpent Mound Pot" pictures.
If you are unfamiliar with this ancient Ohio, USA landmark you can search "Ohio Great Serpent Mound"

What a great historic connection for a pot.

Beautiful Dale!

Thanks guys.

D.

Dale Cochoy wrote:A low unglazed pot with compressed rim
and
a round about 10" with crackled glaze

It is worth to select. I like them

I just got this shot from John Cotaggio of my experimental "Conch shell" pot with an accent plant in it.

Very nice. I like them

A couple shohin 'Dry Riverbed' pots. Both are soft-cornered rectangles.







And, A DRB pot with green moss.

Dale...love to see your work again...One of the pots on page 2 reminded me of one you made for me....glad to see you are recovered somewhat and back at work.

Thanks Jonathan.

Here are a couple painted shohin pots just fired.

A new GINKGO pot with some great flame markings. I figured i better get some of these made while I still have leaves.



A large banded oval with unglazed finish.



A new style/technique. I made a smaller one of these with an attached base in a shohin size a while back as an experiment. I liked it but that pot got destroyed when my van was rolled over and totalled, along with LOTS of pots.
I made some bigger ones and here is the largest. An arched pot w/ feet and a very wide rim.

Excellent pots Dale, love your work.

Welcome back Dale, stunning as ever...... such a range of styles.....each significant in its own right.
Cheers Graham