BobbyLane
Imperial Masterpiece
Setting some basic framework, on a nursery japanese maple...
tree was picked up recently from a nursery, the nebari caught my eye but i think the trunk could benefit from a spell in shallow container to help bring the base out a little, want to get it into a seed tray of some sort
20190130_124208 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
20190201_183620 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
after some thought, i went through the design process in stages, i know i want a naturalistic style maple, so i wanted to see how i could build from the two subtrunks emerging from main trunk, common feature of wild trees
20190201_172729 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
i also want to make decisions that give me the least scarring/wounds, or try to make cuts that are or will become obscured, or not so large that they wouldn't heal.
20190203_205310 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
then i decided that i could get better movement, taper and variation by removing the smaller trunk and then wiring up a thinner shoot behind it, treating the branch as a secondary apex,
20190204_172828 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
one problem here is, most of the branches are coming from the other side of tree,
20190203_205655 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
20190204_172520 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
tree was picked up recently from a nursery, the nebari caught my eye but i think the trunk could benefit from a spell in shallow container to help bring the base out a little, want to get it into a seed tray of some sort
20190130_124208 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
20190201_183620 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
after some thought, i went through the design process in stages, i know i want a naturalistic style maple, so i wanted to see how i could build from the two subtrunks emerging from main trunk, common feature of wild trees
20190201_172729 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
i also want to make decisions that give me the least scarring/wounds, or try to make cuts that are or will become obscured, or not so large that they wouldn't heal.
20190203_205310 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
then i decided that i could get better movement, taper and variation by removing the smaller trunk and then wiring up a thinner shoot behind it, treating the branch as a secondary apex,
20190204_172828 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
one problem here is, most of the branches are coming from the other side of tree,
20190203_205655 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
20190204_172520 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr