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    Ridgeway Trees at Pacific Bonsai Museum

    Congratulations! Great work and thank you for sharing!
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    Do you have any thoughts pro/con as to a turntable?

    I saw a guy build a fairly heavy-duty turntable from a Sit-n-Spin base and some wood. I've built one and it works great. It rotates freely enough but I don't usually need a brake. If I did need a brake I would use a rubber wedge like someone else mentioned in this thread. Anyone who...
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    Progression - Juniperus c. 'Wintergreen'

    Dawes Arboretum Bonsai Show, June 2014
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    2014 Dawes Arboretum Bonsai Show

    34th Annual Bonsai Show June 14, 2014 — June 15, 2014 11am - 5pm Visitors Center and Deck The Dawes Arboretum 7770 Jacksontown Rd. SE Newark, Ohio 43056 Phone: 740-323-2355 (toll free, 800.44.DAWES) It's Father's Day weekend so bring Dad to The Dawes Arboretum annual Bonsai Show...
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    Can you bare root a yew?

    Mike, I have collected at least 14 Yews for Bonsai from various landscape jobs. I've washed the roots with a jet nozzle to remove all original soil for tree health AND as you say, "show me the bones better" (root structure). My college degree is in horticulture and ONE thing I remember that...
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    First Yew Dig

    Dug 10 Yews in 2006. Lost one a year after being dug. Will be able to style some this year and wait on a few to recover more. See HERE
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    My landscape yew

    Regarding the slow growth: Even though the trunk is large it is mostly deadwood with a small percentage of the overall tree as living tissue. Plant carbohydrate reserves are stored in roots and sapwood of a tree's trunk and large branches. The deadwood of the tree is isolated from the...
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    Shimpaku Juniper Tanuki

    Thanks for your thoughts... it seems as if the flow might even be affected by the very ends of the upper deadwood from pic 2 to 3. It is amazing what slight changes make.
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    Shimpaku Juniper Tanuki

    2 Virtuals with simplified deadwood. What do you think? If you like the simplified approach, which one do you like better? Do the the virts improve design flow and eye movement over the deadwood?
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    Progression - Taxus #3 Collected from a Hedge

    More possibilities with shorter deadwood on left:
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    Progression - Taxus #5 & #6 Collected from a Hedge, Combined on Slab

    I'm considering removing the small middle Taxus OR moving it to the left end of the grouping. If I move it to the left I will slant it more to the left than it appears in the picture. Which do you all like better? Either way I think it will provide more variation and interest in the...
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    Progression - Taxus #3 Collected from a Hedge

    A virtual of possible adjustments. Shorten the tree and jin a branch that is too heavy.
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    Mavis, my yew

    Awesome progression!! Thanks for sharing with us!
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    How Does one Become a Bonsai Authority?

    Check out my trunk thickening work done on a Scots Pine with sacrifice branches (or trunk in this case :) ) Here
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    Where to cut my 5 needle??

    Thought I'd throw in a little photo essay of what I'm doing with a Scots Pine. This tree was originally marketed as a pom-pom landscape specimen tree. The Nebari was great and I could see I would use one of the lower branches as the new trunk-line and the rest of the original upper trunk would...
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