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Masterpiece
This is one of my oldest trees in several respects.
It is a 24" field grown Korean hornbeam imported by Brussels. When I bought it from them about ten years ago it was a huge elephant foot base with four stove pipe trunks coming up, covered with an impenetrable green mushroom of foliage. I liked it, but I had no idea what to do with it.
Nature took care of that. We moved to Taos, New Mexico in 2000, and lived there for three and a half years in one of the worst climates for bonsai imaginable. I lost most of my collection, and of those that survived, like this one, much damage was done. This tree lost two of the stove pipe trunks. This is clearly seen in the first two photos. When the jins had rotted a bit, I cleaned them up and preserved them with epoxy resin.
But, although my styling options were now somewhat simplified, I still didn't see much of a way forward. About the best that came to me was the third photo in fall colors, but I didn't like it, and couldn't see much way forward.
The next post continues the story.
It is a 24" field grown Korean hornbeam imported by Brussels. When I bought it from them about ten years ago it was a huge elephant foot base with four stove pipe trunks coming up, covered with an impenetrable green mushroom of foliage. I liked it, but I had no idea what to do with it.
Nature took care of that. We moved to Taos, New Mexico in 2000, and lived there for three and a half years in one of the worst climates for bonsai imaginable. I lost most of my collection, and of those that survived, like this one, much damage was done. This tree lost two of the stove pipe trunks. This is clearly seen in the first two photos. When the jins had rotted a bit, I cleaned them up and preserved them with epoxy resin.
But, although my styling options were now somewhat simplified, I still didn't see much of a way forward. About the best that came to me was the third photo in fall colors, but I didn't like it, and couldn't see much way forward.
The next post continues the story.