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Kifu japanese boxwood buxus
microphylla Island style
Title "rock island"
Three boxwoods are about 8 years
old
Basalt rocks collected on Willard
Munger trail south of Duluth
Coarse horticultural sand around
island mimics lake or river water
Tetractinum stonecrop sedum and
nevil sedum accent plants
Pillow mosses + Willard Munger
ground mosses
Shallow round Whitehorse pot
Komono podocarpus macrophyllus maki
Multiple rock style
Title "rocky oasis"
Three clumps of 5 + 5 + 11 dwarf variety seedlings
Five basalt rocks collected along Willard Munger trail
south of Duluth
Soil top dressing of calcined clay mimics desert
Lichens, dwarf black mondo grass, pillow moss accent plants
Shallow Japanese tokoname pot
Created as a valentine's gift for my wife, Carol in 2010
A fake oasis pond has been placed in back
Seedlings are about 2 years old
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