Naked Scar

[twisted trees]

Working on "Scar." Second complete wiring for this tree collected about 11 years ago. I'm waiting on the dead wood to dry in order to add wood preservative and then lime sulphur.

 

[Eric Group]

Sweet!! Is this a Larch?

 

[twisted trees]

Sweet!! Is this a Larch?

American larch.

 

[GGB]

Good god man! That's a wicked tree.

 

[LanceMac10]

Discrepancies between branch location and size.......(that's the "rules" guy in me talkin', the one that resides down around where I wipe and flush....)

The Guinness swilling, bong smoking guy in me say's, "This tree blows 95% of the trees posted here away!!" (That's the guy who set up shop right next to my ticker.....he's a keeper...)

Powerful!!!

 

[Dav4]

I like it...good pot, too.

 

[barrosinc]

Nice! how tall is it?

 

[twisted trees]

Discrepancies between branch location and size.......(that's the "rules" guy in me talkin', the one that resides down around where I wipe and flush....)

The Guinness swilling, bong smoking guy in me say's, "This tree blows 95% of the trees posted here away!!" (That's the guy who set up shop right next to my ticker.....he's a keeper...)

Powerful!!!

The branch down by your bum is a new one. You can see the branch just above that died. It grew a new branch from a dormant bud. I may keep it I may not. Two of the middle branches on the right are thread grafts. Maybe they will balance out in 15 years or so.

 

[twisted trees]

Nice! how tall is it?

Around 1 meter.

 

[berobinson82]

So are you still collecting larches? Everything you've posted up here, thus far, has been amazing! Kudos.

Cheers.
B

 

[twisted trees]

So are you still collecting larches? Everything you've posted up here, thus far, has been amazing! Kudos.

Cheers.
B

I've basically collected all of the available larch in about 5 counties. Now I have to grow them. This one I collected from a local campground. I approached the owner and asked if I could collect some trees. He was about to send me on my way when I also mentioned I am a sign painter. I traded signs for it. Originally 8' tall. While in the garden one of the roots died all the way to the top...and a name was born.

 

[berobinson82]

I've basically collected all of the available larch in about 5 counties. Now I have to grow them. This one I collected from a local campground. I approached the owner and asked if I could collect some trees. He was about to send me on my way when I also mentioned I am a sign painter. I traded signs for it. Originally 8' tall. While in the garden one of the roots died all the way to the top...and a name was born.

This reads like a bonsai fairy tale bed time story and I, for one, am tuckered out.

Cheers.

B

 

[Bolero]

Working on "Scar." Second complete wiring for this tree collected about 11 years ago. I'm waiting on the dead wood to dry in order to add wood preservative and then lime sulphur.
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You have absolutely Nailed it with this American Larch, hard to believe it was 8ft tall at one time, did you create the scar or did it on the original tree...???
The Scar Deadwood is not too much not too little... just right and easily believable...
This tree is Show Material, keep us posted Please...

 

[twisted trees]

You have absolutely Nailed it with this American Larch, hard to believe it was 8ft tall at one time, did you create the scar or did it on the original tree...???
The Scar Deadwood is not too much not too little... just right and easily believable...
This tree is Show Material, keep us posted Please...

The scar is from a root that died after I planted it in the garden. As for show material...probably the next National?

 

[twisted trees]

This reads like a bonsai fairy tale bed time story and I, for one, am tuckered out.

Cheers.

B

Fairy tale huh? I got permission from the New York State Highway Dept to remove a tree from an exit ramp. After I removed it I realized that I told the guy the wrong exit. Since nobody saw me removing the first tree, I went back the next day to the other exit and removed the 2nd tree.

 

[LanceMac10]

If I put this tree on my bench, my trees would wilt from shame!!!

That or my watering!!

Bro, I'm super young!!

Please show a pic from April 1st next year......love those lil' green nugs!!!

 

[twisted trees]

If I put this tree on my bench, my trees would wilt from shame!!!

That or my watering!!
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Please show a pic from April 1st next year......love those lil' green nugs!!!

That's what happens when I put my trees next to Bill Valavanis'.

 

[LanceMac10]

That's what happens when I put my trees next to Bill Valavanis'.

That's when I wilt!! @William N. Valavanis is a Bonsai God in a carry-on size package!!! Even with a walking boot/cast/sling/wheelchair/gurney.....

 

[just.wing.it]

That one branch, sticking out towards us, with no bark around it....is it alive?

 

[twisted trees]

That one branch, sticking out towards us, with no bark around it....is it alive?

Deader than a doornail. It's trick photography.