october
Masterpiece
Part 1
This is a Japanese garden juniper I have been training for 1 year.
I found this tree at the nursery. As you can see, it it essentially a straggly bush. Upon inspecting the interior of the tree. I noticed it had some nice potential. A nice trunk and good branch placement. Although it seemed like an untrained bush. I believe that someone may have been tending to this tree for a few years. They did not really train it, but it appeared that they may have done some pruning here and there because they knew that the tree might make a good bonsai some day. The tree itself, I would estimate it around 16-22 years old or so.
Pic 1 is the tree after I brought it home.
Pic 2 is the front that I initially picked. However, upon taking it to a workshop. My teacher and fellow bonsai artist felt that the other side should be the front. So essentially, what was the back, became the front. I could still change it because I had only made a few cuts to expose some of the trunk. Here is the old front, my initial front pic.
Pic 3 is the new styling with the newly picked front.
Pic 4 is the tree put into an oversized bonsai pot... So this is actually serving as a grow pot.
Pic 5 is the tree half way into the season. It was growing incredible well and took to all iits prunign and repotting without any probelms.. At this point, some minor shaping was done. The height is about 12 inches.
Continued......
This is a Japanese garden juniper I have been training for 1 year.
I found this tree at the nursery. As you can see, it it essentially a straggly bush. Upon inspecting the interior of the tree. I noticed it had some nice potential. A nice trunk and good branch placement. Although it seemed like an untrained bush. I believe that someone may have been tending to this tree for a few years. They did not really train it, but it appeared that they may have done some pruning here and there because they knew that the tree might make a good bonsai some day. The tree itself, I would estimate it around 16-22 years old or so.
Pic 1 is the tree after I brought it home.
Pic 2 is the front that I initially picked. However, upon taking it to a workshop. My teacher and fellow bonsai artist felt that the other side should be the front. So essentially, what was the back, became the front. I could still change it because I had only made a few cuts to expose some of the trunk. Here is the old front, my initial front pic.
Pic 3 is the new styling with the newly picked front.
Pic 4 is the tree put into an oversized bonsai pot... So this is actually serving as a grow pot.
Pic 5 is the tree half way into the season. It was growing incredible well and took to all iits prunign and repotting without any probelms.. At this point, some minor shaping was done. The height is about 12 inches.
Continued......