Eric Schrader
Chumono
I bought this Ponderosa pine from Tim Kong, a long-time member of the Bonsai Society of San Francisco. He claims to have gotten it from Dan Robinson but who knows where it came from really - it is surely collected but could have come from anywhere. When I bought it it was in good soil and had a lot of foliage but it was all at the top of the tree. I repotted it and watched it grow a while before doing anything.
The fat base and the taper of the trunk made me think that it didn't really work as a literati tree so I took another approach and decided to bend the tree.
There were lots of bends so I just added another and bent some the existing ones a bit further.
A couple years later and I liked this as the front. But a couple other people convinced me that the twisty part going to the back didn't allow for it to be fully appreciated.
Ready for show in a Jim Barrett pot. I should have removed that last guy wire...
Cheers,
Eric
The fat base and the taper of the trunk made me think that it didn't really work as a literati tree so I took another approach and decided to bend the tree.
There were lots of bends so I just added another and bent some the existing ones a bit further.
A couple years later and I liked this as the front. But a couple other people convinced me that the twisty part going to the back didn't allow for it to be fully appreciated.
Ready for show in a Jim Barrett pot. I should have removed that last guy wire...
Cheers,
Eric