First, here are two that aren't mine... the section winnersin concrete and ceramic container divisions...
Mixed plants in concrete
A Lemon Lime with orange ties...
And here is one Sheila planned to enter in "Container Grown" but AHS rules prohibit it. Container Grown hosta entries have to be named varieties - this is an unnamed seedling we've been growing in this good-sized rock for about 8 years... they announced a winner in the seedling/sport container grown category - apparently a new category that this one could have been entered in...
Now for my three entries. The first I call "My Dad's Dresser." (I put out the little descriptor tags after judging was completed).
This is how it looks outdoors, without the extra stuff...
and here is my humorous entry - a seedling chosen for its very round leaves...
The end of the roll was even folded into a triangle, hotel style...
and here is the one I thought was the best of the bunch... frame is made from the old siding we stripped off the house last summer - vintage cedar...
Each of the bonsai pots have a Kifukurin Ko Mame, a special rock that resembles a mountain, a patch of moss, and then the surface is covered in fine pine bark. Here is one of the pots with the 1600 pound mountain boulder in our outdoor Zen room.
The rock in this one is very interesting - it is a water-rounded piece of igneous rock that was captured in a later sedimentary formation...
