Box Store juniper#6

[A Random User]

Purging...Thanks!

 

[KennedyMarx]

I think this one is my favorite out of all these practice junipers. Obviously that top Jin is very dramatic and eye catching. For that reason I'm immediately drawn to it. Is there a reason you didn't try to put any additional movement into the job before it dries out? Do you plan on shortening it?

I think your foliage placement is excellent. I'm looking at it a little more now and thinking about the design decisions you must have made and I'm wondering why you changed the angle so that that trunk is sticking almost straight up out of the soil. Did you think about tilting it the opposite way and developing the cascade that direction? Since I don't know how much you removed from the initial branching, I'm guessing that you didn't have enough material on that side.

If I am ever in your neck of the woods I would love to work on some cheap material like this with you.

 

[Eric Group]

Looks like a great way to improve wiring skills... I cannot recall when I would have had time to do this much work in a day.

I don't get the extremely long Jins personally... Look out of place and don't fit the image IMO...

Other than the few that have these distracting long Jins, your trees look great! Good work wiring them out, you seem to do a great job of presenting the best side and finding an interesting line in the trunk to show of... Good stuff! Really interesting to look at!

Parsons Junipers right?

 

[KennedyMarx]

I was trying to put a story in my head for this one. It would see that it was growing straight up until lightning hit the top and it died back. Then the bottom portion started growing over a cliff? I don't live in the kind of environment to see cliffs or trees beaten by the elements like I've seen pictures of from the Sierra Nevada mountains (etc) but it seems odd that a tree would be growing straight up along the edge cliff. I think a shorter Jin would lend a better image for that story. Just turning it around in my head. I like the tree.

 

[coh]

Some days I might look at a tree like this and ponder how it could possibly have grown that way (and one can almost always come up with an explanation, though for some trees you're just left scratching your head), other days I just enjoy the image. Today I'm just enjoying the image Nice job.

 

[sorce]

So this one bothered me at first, after thinking about it.....and reading the posts, it still does.

That Jin. Or it, with the whole of the tree.

First, I love your first branch being anywhere concept, this one dead makes it that much more interesting, and applicable, I think a lot of folks should follow this advice.

The concept of fire death, made me think It would look better charred. A bit black.

But.....the apex seems a lil too perfect for this to be the case. To fit the story.

Call the tree 100 years old. It would have taken 75 years to reach that height, and another 75 to form the new apex.
This makes it unbelievable to me. 150 years.

If you shorten it (jin) greatly, and char it, down the whole Shari, you could turn it into a three hundred year old tree, with a more believable story.

Without that jin, it would be, as JKL puts it, another ho-hum semi- cascade.

I came back to these to support the artistic movement.

Sorce

 

[sorce]

Oh no,

This is definitely an awesome tree!

I gave at least 4 others a good hard look to, more good work, there is just nothing (art/story) too interesting to say about those.
To me, Especially with such faith in your method, those are exactly what they could/should be for the competition.

This one, with the rookie Jin......(jab-poke)! Makes for better artistic conversation!
Might be the only one that could be better without time. Well, short of the last 10 minutes of. the competition of "prep for".

This one has not sold?


Sorce