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So.... I'm jumping in to try my hand at the Joshua Roth/ABS New Talent Competition. In hopes that I get in, I've already registered for GSBF - cuz it's been WAY too long since I hung out with my CA peeps anyway..... to that..... Who's going??? If you see a chick with a smile about as big as...

The Ridgeway’s… Two paths, one shared story. Attracted at a young age to Asian arts Eric had an early interest in bonsai. Growing up in Wyoming surrounded by magnificent twisted trees that could be found in the rugged country, his interest was piqued but not given a place to take root until a...

I'm hunting for a before photo.... but wanted you to see the tree Kathy decided was her project when she was with us... She named it Kashirahoma no tatsumaki (Oklahoma Tornado) - a total play on making the name Oklahoma into a Japanese word 'Kashi' for Ok... 'ra' since they don't say 'l's and...

Just had Kathy Shaner up here in the Great NW... hosted her for four days and had the most wonderful time with her. Worked on a cascade juniper during a small workshop she did.... Still has work to be done, but I thought I'd show how it's looking.... What it looked like when I got it: What...

So I'm finally building a shade cloth area in my back yard. It's a modest 10x20 space, but will house the trees which need protection from what is otherwise a full-on southern exposure. Delicate maples can get a little sun burned from time to time if you're not on it in the summer to keep them...

Hello gang... Just thought I would post a photographic tour of some of the behind the scenes work I've been doing at the Pacific Rim. I was invited to join the volunteer team of local enthusiasts who help work on the collection with curator David DeGroot. I've been doing this for a little...

Here's a recent addition to the collection. We picked it up at auction. We don't have any other mature procumbens in the collection, so any thoughts on how best to develop the pads would be great. :) It's a fairly good size tree, the table it's on is about 12 inches wide. Do the math from...

Just shooting photos in the yard this evening... lots of things need pruning. Any volunteers? lol cont...

I have a friend who owns a beautiful Mountain Hemlock. I've admired it for years, knowing it was a collected specimen from Canada. Eric and I spent parts of the winter mentoring this friend, who really wanted to take his work to a higher level. Our club was getting ready for a Mother's day show...

... I'm back! Missed you guys. Long story short... I spent most of the winter very ill. I'm over it now, thank goodness... and looking forward to engaging with all of you again. I'll be posting some trees soon, but I wanted to drop a big fat hello for everyone. :) Warmly, Victrinia

So I was emailing back and fourth with Dave Degroot some time ago, and told him I'd love to volunteer sometime... he kindly accepted my offer. Today was my first day. I had a GREAT time!!! Fun crew to hang out with, especially our own Dick Benbow who is a SUPER nice guy! David showed us a bunch...

The other day Eric and I bartered with grouper52 for several NICE antique pots in exchange for a raft planting Siberian Elm that Eric had. Being a very generous kind of guy, he threw in a RMJ he had collected several years ago. This tree originally had two crowns, but the one which had inspired...

So Eric and I went on a bonsaication through the Rockies to the ABS/BCI convention in Denver Colorado... I posted about the first half of the trip on our blog, www.bonsaiotaku.com . I thought I would post a teaser photo or three... :) Enjoy! Victrinia

Here's a sneak peek at what I'm sending... It's not totally finished, but I couldn't resist showing off the beautiful stand Jerry Braswell made for me!! Love it!! Enjoy! Victrinia PS.... Smoke... be kind... lol love yah brother. ;)

Many of you have likely seen the beautiful Japanese root stand I got for Eric a couple years ago. I couldn't resist it's beauty when I saw it. We then set out to find a tree to pair with it. And the tree in it's early time with us can be seen here. I was taking a ton of photos the other day...

So I thought I would put these here to make dear friends like october smile... :) A few photos of my imported Zelkova from Japan... And one of a shimpaku juniper I got at GSBF (with the help of my buddy Al)... Both still need a lot of work... but I love them dearly, and...

I did a post on this tree on our blog... but for those who don't visit the blog, I thought I'd show a recent photo of it here. Enjoy! Victrinia

Eric and I were over at Elandan today and during a walk through when looking at some things Daniel wanted to show us, I got all distracted by this tree that was sitting off in an odd area. Since I liked it, Daniel asked me if I wanted to have it as an early Christmas present, and so it came home...

Just a couple photos to show progress... unfortunately I don't have photos of the original stock material apparently. I got this tree at the PNBCA 2009 in a workshop with Tak Yamaura. He introduced this species to North America in the 70s apparently. It has spectacularly fine foliage, and grows...

I've had this pine for the past few years, I picked it up at a local auction because I liked how obviously old it was. I worked on it this weekend, so I took photos before and after the work. I'm very fond of this tree... but I had not delt with some of it's faults. It's getting a closer to...

My lil' monster. :) This was an engagment present from Daniel Robinson several years ago. It was a huge stump collected from Hawaii, with almost no branch structure. Everything you see is what we did to it. This is a project tree both the hubby and I have carved on, and trained. So it's a...

Fortunately it's not HARD work... :) I was thinking to myself it was a shame no one but me was enjoying the show on my tree this spring... so I took it to work... where somehow in a quick succession of telephone-game-like communication it was volunteered by my director to be on display for...

This is a tree I've had for a couple years now... I took it to our convention last fall and Kathy Shaner and I worked on it together. I put it in a Dale Cochoy pot today and I'm deeply delighted with how it's coming along. It was a rangy looking thing when I first got it, but with good pruning I...

So I thought I would give a sneak preview of what will surely be a magical pairing. I bought this stand as a birthday present for Eric because I could not resist it. We've owned the stand for a couple years now... but we have never had a tree for it until now. I always knew we would likely...

So it's my birthday... In 2005 I decided that the thing I wanted for my birthday was a tree and a pot. It could very well be considered one of the most exciting days of my life. Yes... I am one of the unfortunate souls who was not born into a bonsai tradition... and fell in love with the...