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Since our bonsai club has a show the end of September, accent plants will be featured this month. This is a sedum in a 2-1/2" Pauline Muth pot.
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Highly likely this accent plant will be in the upcoming bonsai show. Terri Petrescu’s pot contains Selaginella (starry spikemoss), Lemmaphyllum microphyllum (green penny fern), and Acorus gramineus ‘Minimus Aureus’ (dwarf variegated sweetflag).
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The Japanese pot contains fern, which needs a botanical name, Leptinella minor, and Ophiopogon japonicus ‘Nana’ (dwarf mondo grass).
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The last of my bonsai show accent plants. This is a MC2 pot with Uncinia egmontiana (orange hook sedge), Leptinella minor (brass buttons), and Sedum brevifolium.
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I watched the Kusamono stream over the weekend. Your’s are amazing. Frankly all of these are beautiful. I am going to try my hand at this this year. Does anyone want to post a list of plants they find to be Kusamono friendly?
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I assume the right little sub-plant was touching the ground and decided to root? 
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Yes, the creeping sarifrage was rooting in the sand that is underneath all my kusamono and accent plants.
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Thank you for the kind words. Almost any plant species that thrive in a pot will work. Besides the plants I have posted since May, here are a few more suggestions: Armeria maritima, Arenaria (sandworts), Imperata cylindrica (Japanese blood grass), Davallia (ferns), dwarf bulbs/ irises/orchids, Erodiums, Grasses, Hosta miniature varieties, Juncus (rushes), Oxalis, Polypodial (ferns), Soldanella, water plants, etc. Good luck and have fun!
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This is a “pond” kusamono because two of the plants were collected around a pond…Cyperus alternifolius (umbrella plant) and Colocasia esculenta (elephant ears). Also contained in the Ron Lang pot are Hydrocotyle verticillata (dollarweed) and Rhynchospora colorata (white star sedge).
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@CathyE do you keep your kusamono on a sand filled humidity tray? Do you find the watering needs to be less than most trees because of the soil/moss combo vs. the standard 1.1.1 mix?
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I keep my kusamono and shitakusa in a custom wood frame tray with wire mesh on the bottom and covered with black weed control cloth. The last layer is agricultural sand. I water these plants more than my bonsai because of the small size pots. In the summer, I water every day. The sand is great if you happen to skip a day because the sand seems to always stay wet.
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A Hypericum aegypticum (dwarf St. John’s wort) about 5" in height. A naturally growing “bonsai” in a Erin pot. There should be yellow flowers in the summer.
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This is my largest kusamono containing in the back Imperata cylindrica (Japanese blood grass) and Rhynchospora colorata (white star sedge); left to right is Campanula punctata, Ajuga reptans ‘Valfredda’ CHOCOLATE CHIP (bugleweed); underneath the campanula is Lemmaphyllum microphyllum (green penny fern); and the ground cover is Leptinella minor (Banks Peninsula button daisy).
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Absolutely beautiful
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