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Companion Plant Photo Gallery
A few of the blooming companion (or ‘accent’) plants, one stone and a shoe on my benches outside: One of the Northwest native orchids, Giant Helleborine. In a pot it only reaches a few inches, and the...
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Three Years Of A Spruced Up Engelmann
This Engelmann spruce was originally owned by a guy up in Seattle and I suspect it grew in a mica drum pot for a couple decades. Collected in the Cascades many years ago, it has nice flaky, mature bark...
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Floating White Egret Flowers
This orchid, Habenaria radiata, (syn. Pecteilis radiata) is from Asia and is one of the most delicate and lovely of the terrestrial orchids commonly used as an accent for bonsai. It grows from a bulb...
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Accent Plant Smorgasbord!
It’s been a busy month! And it’s nice to come back from tilting at windmills and other kinds of fun to see what’s been going on while away. I always look forward to see what’s blooming on the accent...
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Preparing Accents for Winter–
Accents are popular with many bonsai enthusiasts. Some of us grow them to the detriment of our bonsai, we are so engaged and enraptured with them. And they are delightfully distracting. In the late...
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