Recent content by sokonmatsumura

I have guy wires pulling small branches downward. When will they stay the direction I have them placed.

How long does it take a chinese juniper wiring to set before you remove the wire?

I had a hinoki....I killed it. Your tree looks wonderful to me! I like it because to me it looks real. When I looked at this tree I could truly visualize it in a field. Good job.

One thing I notice when I look at trees around my area is that trees are beautiful, but when you really look at it you see dead branches, and just total randomization, not perfectly pruned. I do like the Bristlecone pies, and deadwood natural junipers, beautiful.

I am looking for a good source to buy any junipers proper for bonsai application.

I agree with you. I think that most everything called bonsai mostly looks unnatural. Trees in nature usually look total different than these perfect trimmed little bonsai people make. I love the pine bonsai, but all the pines I see look nothing at all like these tapered trunk works of art. It's...

I see a lot of junipers, but has anybody done or seen it with maples? Could it look cool?

Would you only keep one branch?

How would I change the planting angle exactly? Do you think all the branches are good and maybe just need some wiring and moving around to one side. This picture doesn't show but it has one branch that goes upward, in the true cascade or semi cascade style do they all need to point down?

I think it is a cultivar of Himalayan Cedar. Cedrus Deodor. It is hard to find bonsais of it. Speaking of your other message our local nurseries sell a lot of japanese maples, and other maples. Yes a club I should find.

Does anybody have any experience with this cultivar as bonsai? Anybody have any links to other's projects? How to keep it alive? Are there important things to know regarding cedar as bonsai? Here is a photo of mine.

I'm sure you could tell but it is a japanese juniper. I tried to work with what I have and do a cascade style. I tried to picture an old juniper hanging off a cliff.

Thank you. I hear what you guys are saying. I do also feel lucky because I live in Northern California and the weather really is awesome and at a usually constant 65 degrees all year round. Plants seem to flourish here with no error. I like what I have and want to have it survive. I am just...

Im guessing from your reaction of my trees I made from nursery stock that they are no good.It is true that so far I have just found plants and then shaped them in ways that I thought looked good, but you old timers are pretty damn hardcore about it. I want to be better of course, and I have read...

That sucks. I feel like I wasted my money. I didn't start with pines though. I am only beginning but I have others I am happy with right now. I have never done a pine, obviously it is not a good one. It is a grafted Banshosho black pine, which is a dwarfed species to begin with. What's wrong...