DIY Kusamono planting from spring garden weeds

In this video I make a diy Kusamono planting using spring garden weeds.

With the coming spring all kind of spring weeds are starting to pop up in my vegetable garden so I decided to try and make my first Kusamono planting out of these seasonal garden weeds. Kusamono plantings are intended to be displayed alone as the main focal point as opposed to Shitakusa which is an accent plant used to accompany a Bonsai tree.

As a Kusamono pot I'm using a container which I made around 10 years ago from papercrete, a mixture of paper pulp and cement. For the actual planting I am using some moss and three randomly selected garden weeds: Common groundsel (Senecio vulgaris), Purple deadnettle (Lamium purpureum) and Annual bluegrass (Poa annua). One could imagine various other combinations of seasonal plants. With some prior research, groups of compatible species could be selected to make a spring Kusamono worthy of being displayed in exhibitions (unlike this first attempt of mine).

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