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11/18/2012

 
I like using multicolored rocks to make a pot look "finished."  The ones I usually use (simply because I found a big bag of them for cheap) are pictured at right.  But then I got to thinking: what if the rocks themselves were a more central part of a composition?  Wouldn't that be cool?  (Answer: totally.)

Because I have been sick for a while I haven't been going out much, nor have I been able to concentrate on work...  so I had time to make the following (shown below from different angles): 
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As you can see, I used the comeback kid (a crassula ovata gollum that I nearly killed last month), as well as a larger rock, to make a really spare-looking pot.  I also planted a third, very small plant.  Can you see it?  If not, look closer:
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Cool, right?  Then I placed rocks of different colors throughout the pot, using that pink little plantlet as a starting point for my colors, since it looked like pebbles itself.  I tried to be pretty precise, letting the colors fade into each other.  The rocks I used were all from the mix I showed in the first picture.  I just spread them out on a light-colored surface so I could find different colors, then used forceps to place them where I wanted.

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