Got URO...Please share if you do

[MACH5]

Sorry no detailed progression pics on mine but here is a Japanese maple that originally came from Randy Knight. The first pic shows what the tree looked like when I purchased it and on the right what I did with it. This tree came with lots of deadwood that I carved and accentuated to make it more of a primary feature in the design.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Sorry no detailed progression pics on mine but here is a Japanese maple that originally came from Randy Knight. The first pic shows what the tree looked like when I purchased it and on the right what I did with it. This tree came with lots of deadwood that I carved and accentuated to make it more of a primary feature in the design.

Man...that is beyond eye candy! Well played by you...fantastic material from the get go...and man...what where you took it. Impressive! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Giga]

Sorry no detailed progression pics on mine but here is a Japanese maple that originally came from Randy Knight. The first pic shows what the tree looked like when I purchased it and on the right what I did with it. This tree came with lots of deadwood that I carved and accentuated to make it more of a primary feature in the design.

Such a cool tree, very sleepy hollow haunted look

 

[aml1014]

Not carved out yet but itll be a hollow trunk, my cottonwood which I got for free from work when borers killed off the entire top.

Aaron

 

[rockm]

Two uros, one small one up top, a big one at the bottom. The bottom one is an original collection wound that I've been trying to close up for 15 years now. It's slow going. The top one was previously where an "eye poker" branch was located and removed. Doesn't show up here in this photo very well, though. Oaks should have at least one uro, just like junipers should have jin.

 

[Vance Wood]

Thanks for showing one of your trees. It's very nice. You mention Oak? What variety of Oak?

 

[rockm]

Escarpment Live oak (querus Virginiana "fusiformis" or just "quercus Fusiformis" depending on where you look. It is an upland form of southern coastal live oak that is spread throughout Texas and into Oklahoma. I've posted this many times.

 

[Vance Wood]

You are saying that this is a Live Oak species? I say some wonderful Live Oaks at Kitty Hawk, specifically Kill Devil Hills. Boy does that look like a tree capable of being a bonsai.

 

[M. Frary]

Buda belly.

Buddha belly with uro.
Sorry.

 

[LanceMac10]

I'm confused, am I looking out or in.....

 

[Smoke]

All hail the "Glory Hole"

 

[M. Frary]

Not sure how much glory there is in there. But there is a chance of lint.

 

[jriddell88]

Barberry as well. This ones getting chopped for the second and hopefully final time

 

[sorce]

Sorce

 

[rockm]

You are saying that this is a Live Oak species? I say some wonderful Live Oaks at Kitty Hawk, specifically Kill Devil Hills. Boy does that look like a tree capable of being a bonsai.

It is a live oak, a subspecies of Southern Live Oak (or a species unto itself--Escarpment live oak--depending on what reference you look at) that is more winter hardy than the iconic coastal species of Southern live oak. It responds very well to bonsai culture, once it adapts to containers--which can be a big issue at collection. This one was collected by Vito Megna back in the mid-90s near Salado, Tex. I've had it almost 20 years now.

The coastal species that grows from the deep south up into Va. isn't as cold hardy, but there are a few of those around that have been made into bonsai.

 

[rockm]

Two uros, one small one up top, a big one at the bottom. The bottom one is an original collection wound that I've been trying to close up for 15 years now. It's slow going. The top one was previously where an "eye poker" branch was located and removed. Doesn't show up here in this photo very well, though. Oaks should have at least one uro, just like junipers should have jin.
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A new (bad) pic of the tree before it went into winter storage at Thanksgiving.

 

[M. Frary]

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Sorce

Oh lord!

 

[Tieball]

Pre uros??

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Fabulous! An outstanding story of survival will unfold over time.

 

[Shima]

1/2 gal. whisky barrels

Should be "half whisky barrels"