serpentsgarden
Sapling
Shinpaku as of today. We have a better easier time with climate living along the pacific rim in the willamette micro climate. Winters temps at a low of for two days 20 degrees most night well above 40 and days about 50 to 60 with high humidity. Trees thrive here like no other. So we dicided to continue in the workshop with this tree and this is the progression so far. The concept is an alpine setting with sparse rocks and ground covering moss to mimic alpine grasses. When i found the tree it was severly root bound and stressed but i chose to reduce foliage and began branch slection a month ago. Inital wiring started then to get a jump on the hardening of the wood. A few branches were eliminated then to get the air and light to the main trunk. It was a mess of gangly lost branches. My bonsai club saw a tree that had years of reduction and regrowing to achieve any real impressive results but after a careful selection and good pruning a reppotting the minds changed. Now its life will be set into a twisted upright a few branches will develope near the current apex to have a secondary tier of balnced growth. The tree stands about 14 inches tall and plan to end of in about the 22 inch area perhaps. Trunk caliper is about 2 1/4 inches and taper can improve with time easily. Tell me your thoughts on the material. BE RESPECTFUL