pot for a suber

Hi everybody

This is for now the result of 6 years of cultivation and pruning and let grow the branches of this suber.

When I collect this tree, it haven't any branches at all.

It was a great challenge for me transform this uninteresting piece of hood in a graceful and powerful tree.
all the work on the dead wood and in the branches it like a great reward for me when I see the tree improving your design and wealthy.

and now it needs a pot to complete is journey...I'm open to suggestions.

what do you think?






this was the last work I made on it









all the guys who helped working on this and other tree of mine...resting with a good meal...from the left to right,
me, Pedro, Gustavo, João Pires and Nuno.





best regards

Viriato Oliveira

your suber is fantastic!!

Hi Viriato,great transformation
I like it very much,I hope you like the virtual I made for the tree also
Greetings Ed

wowww Ed

I like a lot!!!

the negative relief combine perfectly with the hole in the dead wood...is a strong candidate to shelter the roots of this suber.

I like the colour to!



Tanks Ed



Viriato Oliveira

I like that pot too.

Here are three I pulled off a shelf for you to consider, more simple than Ed's but the depth works with the mass of your tree. The first 2 are Japanese and last Chinese. Sorry I can't do virtuals.

Stunning tree Viriato!!!!!!!!!!

there´s only one thing to say... stunning

i hope i will see this in a portuguese show...

regards from evora, Portugal

Good Suber!
Great job!

I think there is still work to do!
From the photo, it seems a bit high

I Like this tree. Good Job.

The pot number 3 is good.

Good Suber!

Realy nice transformation

I like the pot which Ed proposed, maybe just a litle bit lower version of it.

regards,
Roland

I like your tree very much. If the tree is mine I would put it in some elegant oval pot, like on these two virtuals.
Colour must be different in better harmony with the tree, of course!

Hi Viriato

This is a very beautiful tree

How about something that would pick up on the carved trunk like this -



Cheers

Vic

Thanks for all.

But I don't know yet the kind of pot to give at this suber.

Marija Hajdic I like you second option! a little bit small but I like.



Best regards

Viriato Oliveira

Wow! Very good progress and excellent design. Congratulations.

Budi

Thanks for sharing these progressive images. Very nice to see these go from their collected state to their present.

Hello Viriato

What about these pots....

Kind regards
Martin


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Gwyther wrote:Hi Viriato

This is a very beautiful tree

How about something that would pick up on the carved trunk like this -



Cheers

Vic

thats the one!!! only if the pot was just a little deeper... wow what a tree!!!

sweet tree! im not sure how to virtually put the pot on the tree as all of you do^^ I would choose a pot that does not take the eye away from the tree...maybe a plain tokaname with greyish color and rectangular with a wide rim maybe...hehe i wish i could learn to paste the pot to the tree picture!


jie

杰遨-jie wrote: sweet tree! im not sure how to virtually put the pot on the tree as all of you do^^ I would choose a pot that does not take the eye away from the tree...maybe a plain tokaname with greyish color and rectangular with a wide rim maybe...hehe i wish i could learn to paste the pot to the tree picture!


jie

Thanks jie, it has been interesting to see other's choices.

That's why I posted the 3 pots earlier. I'm not saying they are the best, just 3 I had to choose from. I think those textured pots are distracting and take away from this tree. Too matchy-matchy for my eye. Simple and elegant - but not common and ordinary - are what's going to do this tree justice.

Russell

I everybody

Klaudia & Martin

I like your first option...is one to consider!

but I agree to with Russell and jie.


I need to think to the concrete sense I gone put in the tree...in some way his personality.And the pot is 50% off his personality.


thanks all for the important help, on a journey that is take out the best possible of a good tree like this one.



best regards


Viriato Oliveira

Completely agree with Russell. The pot should be complimenting/supporting the tree....this is what allows the best the tree has to offer to come out. Simplicity is best.

I am not a fan of textured pots either.

Hi everybody

approximately one week ago I decide transplant this suber.

Like you can see it have lot of roots.


After cut one or two roots its fits (in my opinion), very nicely in this hand made and resulted of a Special
Commission for this tree.

this is just before to intervention











For now this is the result...

Hope in the future the tree come to be better.


best regards

Viriato Oliveira

Looks pretty good!~

Hi Viriato,

Sorry, but I think this pot doesn't fit this tree at all. It is the same widht as the crown and it does not look right. I would plant it into an unglazed, wider and about 1/3 lower pot.
My opinion.

Nik Rozman wrote:Hi Viriato,

Sorry, but I think this pot doesn't fit this tree at all. It is the same widht as the crown and it soes not look right. I would plant it into an unglazed, wider and about 1/3 lower pot.
My opinion.

My opinion too.

Russell Coker wrote:

Nik Rozman wrote:Hi Viriato,

Sorry, but I think this pot doesn't fit this tree at all. It is the same widht as the crown and it soes not look right. I would plant it into an unglazed, wider and about 1/3 lower pot.
My opinion.

My opinion too.

Me three!

Great tree though- I love how you grew the tree into the design.