fourteener
Omono
Proof is in the pudding
1. Nick Lentz name is bigger than mine. If he has A WHOLE BOOK on it, someone with more cred than me has already offered this to the bonsai community.
2. Rodney Clemons was in Duluth MN last summer doing a master workshop. His comments to my friend who has been doing this for twenty years was... "Your tamaracks look more like Lentz' trees than any I have seen.
3. Look at my gallery. I'm past the "first garden juniper from Home Depot stage"
4. Ah pics don't lie...I get it
Image 177: This is a branch for which this procedure has been done once. It was done in the summer of 2011 not last summer.
Image 178: A picture of a different branch on the same tree. Replanting this group on a new slab means I let a tree be a tree and grow for the summer. This is a picture of the usual kind of growth you would see on a tamarack any given year.
Image 179: Take a look at how close and numerous are the buds as well as the fine twigs. The twigs are 1/3 the size of regular growth.
Image 180: I am holding the branch that was allowed to grow freely for a year, at the end you see the terminal bud. That terminal bud is next to one that was on a defoliated branch two summers ago. Half the size.
I don't have any good pic of the process being worked out on this stuff. I have only done bonsai for myself and haven't done a good job of photo journaling the process to share with people. These are the branches I have today standing above the snow bank. It's the best I can offer.
1. Nick Lentz name is bigger than mine. If he has A WHOLE BOOK on it, someone with more cred than me has already offered this to the bonsai community.
2. Rodney Clemons was in Duluth MN last summer doing a master workshop. His comments to my friend who has been doing this for twenty years was... "Your tamaracks look more like Lentz' trees than any I have seen.
3. Look at my gallery. I'm past the "first garden juniper from Home Depot stage"
4. Ah pics don't lie...I get it
Image 177: This is a branch for which this procedure has been done once. It was done in the summer of 2011 not last summer.
Image 178: A picture of a different branch on the same tree. Replanting this group on a new slab means I let a tree be a tree and grow for the summer. This is a picture of the usual kind of growth you would see on a tamarack any given year.
Image 179: Take a look at how close and numerous are the buds as well as the fine twigs. The twigs are 1/3 the size of regular growth.
Image 180: I am holding the branch that was allowed to grow freely for a year, at the end you see the terminal bud. That terminal bud is next to one that was on a defoliated branch two summers ago. Half the size.
I don't have any good pic of the process being worked out on this stuff. I have only done bonsai for myself and haven't done a good job of photo journaling the process to share with people. These are the branches I have today standing above the snow bank. It's the best I can offer.