Native sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis), in the smallest “stone” pot I have attempted to make. Golf ball for scale.
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Not too sure if i was doing the correct things. I literally just bought some shrubs and put them together like these.
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Sedum acre
Planted in a rusty spring of a shock absorber
There’s a small area of woodland near the place I live that’s obviously been used by people for dumping all kinds of trash there. Among the most interesting pieces of trash you find there are all kinds of car parts. I even found a whole car wreck there. I collect these things and use it as plant containers. For example, I’ve found the metal hull of the headlights of Trabant (those infamous, ridiculoulsy small and trashy GDR cars). I planted a sandthorne in it (Hippophae rhamnoides -great plant for bonsai).
This is my favourite trash composition so far.
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I love this! Keep on keeping on I’m a fan.
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@alex.grela
Planted in a rusty spring of a shock absorber
Creative and executed perfectly, super impressive
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Nephrolepsis exaltata
Planted in a pheasant’s egg
One day I took a walk with my dog in a nearby piece of grassland and found the empty shell of an egg. The hatched bird’s broke just a little round hole in the side of the shell and let the rest of the egg intact. After some research I could identify the egg as that of a pheasant. I planted a fern in it that is commonly used as a decorative indoor plant. The eggshell lasted about three years, but at last it has been eaten up by the roots and the microorganisms of the soil. So the notorious eggfern needed a new home. Luckily I found a piece of wood that has been partly hollowed out. The eggfern moved in and thus evolved to a logfern.
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Now that is some awesome stuff right there 
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I am now compelled to make a pheasant shell kusomo pot to continue and evolve your origin story
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Maybe I leave the egg making to the pheasants…harder than I thought …sure I could cast a mold but then I never would have arrived at my new appreciation for the shape of an egg!
A mold would surely be the best way to make it. You could also make it by pressing from the inside with your thumbs but it’s hard to get evenly thick walls then. Also, I would switch the clay for porcelain.
I actually dont work with clay its a mortar based blend with additive’s to withstand extreme weather conditions…which makes it harder to make something that are typically easy with standard clay.
Id call it a a fun leanring experience and an hour well spent bit definitely not good. Your spot on with the porcelain and I knew I wouldn’t get the grit less gloss needed but wanted to see how far I could take the material in an hour
If I were to do it again I’d actually just make it and then crack it when it was 75% cured only way I see being able to get the randomness of the fractured edges
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I actually think it’s pretty good. It’s definitely reminiscent of an egg. And the irregularity of the broken shell looks good too. I probably would just smoothen the whole thing. I don’t know what’s in your blend - but would sandpaper work?
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Your spot on sandpaper would work perfectly but I would have needed to add another layer of thickness. Maybe I’ll let it cure and add a layer. And sand back to smoothness
Funny thing is one of my clients I do stone work for saw this egg today and had to buy it 
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Nice! Glad to hear that people like it and that my post led to this!
100% and I sent her your original composition too, so your great idea lives on!
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