In a message dated 9/26/2003 1:42:02 PM Eastern Daylight
Time,
writes:

So, another question along this same line (I'll wake up the
list
yet!)--do
pots reach
the point where repairs or damage make them more desirable,
in terms of
wabi/sabi--patina, that sort of thing?

No. ;-)

A few months after our return from our last Japan trip an old,
signed, shallow mame pot I had paid a LOT for over there was
pushed off the table (tree and all) by a bird or squirrel and
broke EXACTLY in half at the diameter mark (does that denote a
cast pot????). I glued it together as carefully as I could, but
felt I no longer could use it for a tree. It is used today as
the pot for an accent planting of Polypodium fern, and is quite
satisfactory, as the fern and the moss hide the mend.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - The phrase
'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron. - Stephen Viederman

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