New Display Bench in the Bonsai Pit

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How old is the western hemlock & mountain hemlock? They are beautiful.
Estimating age on Yamadori is IMHO very difficult to determine. Environmental stress ages the trees (especially in the harsh climatic conditions that they came from) thus, they sometimes show characteristics of a much older age.
The Western was actually growing on a nurse log within a small swampy area. I hesitated to collect it when I first encountered it, the colour of the sparse foliage was almost yellow and the roots were clinging from the old rotting Hemlock nurse log.......I put 4 fertilizer tea bags around it and collected it the following year. The Mtn Hemi came from a real rocky escarpment, it was wedged into a small crevice.
 

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Post 23 was supposed to go on the Hemlock Discussion Thread, have asked the moderator to move it there.

This weeks display. A dreaded Phoenix graft or Tanuki. A River driftwood piece and a Juniper (variety unknown). Accent is Foam Flower Tiarella Trifoliata.
 

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This weeks display. Grandfather and Grandson Shore Pines (Pinus Contorta Contorta).
 

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New week, a different display. Setting it up weekly allows me to continually rotate my trees (as far as sunshine/aspect is concerned), so they all get moved each week.
G.
 

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This weeks set up. An attempt to portray the rugged West Coast of BC, where many beaches are full of driftwood of all types, shapes and sizes.....also there are 1000’s of Islets some with a few trees, some with only one tree. This tree is a Mountain Hemlock, Stone is limestone.
You can see this tree after collecting (2013) here https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/a-special-yamadori-trip.12767/
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Post 23 was supposed to go on the Hemlock Discussion Thread, have asked the moderator to move it there.

This weeks display. A dreaded Phoenix graft or Tanuki. A River driftwood piece and a Juniper (variety unknown). Accent is Foam Flower Tiarella Trifoliata.
Where did you source your pot? I like the idea of dedicating a bench for display even in these times when only the owner will see it. Thanks
 

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Where did you source your pot? I like the idea of dedicating a bench for display even in these times when only the owner will see it. Thanks
The cheap Chinese pot was purchased in Combs (Vancouver Island) at a business/place called “Goats on the Roof” and yes during the summer the goats graze on the grassed roof.
 

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This week on the bench is a ROR European Larch (Paris decides), repotted this spring (on its second flush). The Stone is Limestone, gifted to me by Anton Nijhuis (known in the PNW for his Mtn., Hemlock and limestone treasures). With the Larch....The single elongated branch at the top is to build the apex taller and fully.
G.
 

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This weeks display. Uncomfortable calling this Maple a Bonsai (perhaps a landscape tree in a pot), I believe it’s a Norway variety and was rescued from a “demolition of an old facility in town” at a very early age. It was an advanced seedling (had that curved lower trunk and was reaching out for sunshine) compared leaves at the time from the city street lined with large Maples. The stone was collected recently from a local beach and appears to be limestone ( it is still in its raw state.A19E12AD-DA81-40BF-8FE0-6FFA7E7F6C91.jpegD069D4D2-C275-4B63-837A-5A538CC8E49B.jpeg6549F973-A278-49C1-84EC-B1B07D4A5C98.jpeg
 

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Book end Pines, this week. Both (Pinus Contorta Contorta) were collected in same area, a couple of years apart.....and both repotted this spring.
 

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This weeks; another two Shore Pine (Pinus Contorta, Contorta), The Literati on the right Not photographed well, tried to get the sky as background for the Apex rather than the deciduous trees behind the fence. The striped stone is a darker green in person.
They are bushy and untamed but they have grown well over the summer.
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You have a beautiful collection of trees. Absolutely fantastic. Something to aspire to. 👏👏👏
 

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You have a beautiful collection of trees. Absolutely fantastic. Something to aspire to. 👏👏👏
Thank you Graft and Penumbra......it’s a hobby that combines my 40 years working in the forestry fields of silviculture, ecology, environmental protection and my love of gardening. The majority of my 75+ trees are Yamadori both from the wild and some urban rescues.
 

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......fall is definitely here with a couple of rainy pacific storms this week.....needed to start moving things around and at one time the bench was this.
Main tree on right - Mountain Hemlock, tree of left is a ROR trident maple project, far left, a glimpse of a field maple.
Note; the base of the Trident isn’t part of the limestone boulder but a basal Shari.
 

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