Here is a Ben that belongs to a friend. I don’t think he has any other bonsai trees, but has had this one for a very long time. I repotted it for him a few years ago, and he mentioned last week it was looking weak and maybe it needed to be repotted. Last time, it barely came out of the pot, but it did, and I managed to trim it back enough to get it back into the original pot. Here is how it arrived today. Unfortunately, the pot broke this time as I was working to extract the tree.
So I played around with a few pot choices as a replacement…
Deep-sided Koyo (he must be a really good friend, right?), it is a bit constrictive, too deep, and the glaze is not a fit
Production-grade Japanese unglazed rectangle, around 14″ wide and 2.5″ deep:
DaSu “fossil” special…
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