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Following this one! I've got a much bigger slash pine in training as a garden tree but i've not found a way to manage the needle length yet

How did you go with this? Any updates? I've got quite a few enkianthus in the ground but i'm having trouble with their tendency to sucker/put out epicormic growth

That came out great! I love how rich the colour is in that sapele

After giving much thought to how to finish it i finally settled on a combination of walnut, brown japan and mahogany stains mixed through shellac and layered up...i would have liked to have kept more of the pine's grain, but after having had a few bad experiences with blotching and unpredictable...

I'm not entirely sure yet...i'm thinking of layering up some walnut and teak washes with shellac to get something with some variation a little like this https://samedge.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/attachment-1.jpeg

I'm definitely not an expert with single flush pines, but i seem to recall hearing and reading something similar a while ago on the mirai site about trying to induce back budding on eastern white pines/pinus strobus and limber pines/pinus flexilis. Going off memory, i think they were saying that...

I'd second Shibui's opinion on this one! From my own experience, not only does the wire bite in incredibly quickly but the branches on maples in the ground seem incredibly slow to actually set in place and have a major tendency to spring back up once the wire's removed - even if its bitten in...

Howdy all, hopefully you're not all sick of this thread by now, but i just wanted to share the latest update; After spending an embarrassingly large amount of time sanding out tooling and layout marks and a few more hours shaping and sanding the bead around the base, the visible areas of the...

Its looking pretty awesome so far! Really good job on fitting it...once that bits over the rest is a bit of a cake walk

Thanks! The bottom of the stone is relatively smooth, but annoyingly far from flat - it slopes quite aggressively from front to back and curves up on each end....which is a huge part of why this daiza ended up being so thick, as i wanted to make sure the whole thing was nicely seated all the way...

Another quick update today to show the newly carved 'beading' around the base of the daiza...its still quite rough and in need of refinement and some more carving to round it over a little but i think it makes for an improvement thus far

alas i never got around to doing a drawing of it as its sort of evolved along the way

just a small update today and an appeal for some aesthetic input... I've finally roughed out the feet, trying to position each one under a visually weighty area of the rock, but i'm a little uncertain of whether the feet should be higher/the gaps in between them raised up and/or whether i...

Thanks! I tried to carve it down to meet the widest point all around the stone So far i've done the whole thing with chisels and gouges, though the pine lets me know the second they get blunt by tearing out haha

Thanks guys! I've made a couple before but that was way back so i'd kind of forgotten how tricky they can be...the exact placement/sizing for the feet is still troubling me a little but i've started toying with some ideas for them. I spent a good chunk of today refining the lip around the...

Howdy all, I just wanted to show off the new daiza i'm working on for a friend of mine...the wood is nothing special/just some crappy radiata pine, but i think its turned out pretty well thus far aside from it perhaps being a bit too thick...but there wasnt much of a choice with the position...

Growing mosses from outside areas can be a bit of a challenge....they're fairly touchy about their individual requirements and dont tend to do so well if they're not juuuuuust right... A good thing to check might be the ph of your water as most mosses dont tend to like overly alkaline...

Its just my (admittedly shaky) opinion, but most of those examples look more like red pines/pinus densiflora than koraiensis to my eye at least assuming thats what they are - i've found red pine bark to be pretty variable from one tree to another...some have very flaky delicate stuff while on...

Good guess ;) I'm in Belgrave, at the foot of the Dandenongs, so its not really much of a struggle to keep things looking lush....its much harder to keep moisture sensitive things like white pines happy though! I cant say i've seen any moss gardens in St Kilda or Fitzroy, buuuuut i must confess...

Likewise, i dont see why it would be much of an issue, though after a few trips to Japan over the years i cant recall seeing too many niwaki pines with much in the way of deadwood beyond the odd branch stub here and there. Going through my photos i think this is the only one i spotted on my...

Thanks! I bought it from a Melbourne bonsai nursery called Chojo Feature Trees. The owner had recently bought it from the daughter of its original long time owner and thought it was around 60-70 years old.

I think this is probably going to be the best photo i'll get of my garden this autumn before things start losing their leaves...its still pretty new so i'm really looking forward to seeing it next year once things have settled in more! Though i'm pretty excited to put in a new japanese red...

Thanks! I'm in Melbourne, Australia

My garden is still very much an early work in progress but its slowllyyyyyyy starting to come along now. Hopefully once autumn really hits in a few weeks it'll start to pop a bit more

Those should work pretty well if you're after more of a gentle look to your trunks, just make sure that any bends you put in are strong enough that they'll still be noticeable once the trunks are about 3 or 4 inches thicker a few years down the line :) If you want a more wild look to any of them...