Poetry and Philosophy

[A Random User]

How can a tree speak to you?

I mean really speak to you?

Not in the way of hey... that's a cool tree... Wow, that tree certainly shows off your "Bonsai" skills...
Or even, "I got a small package, so I thought I would go out and obtain the biggest tree I could fine" kind of way...
This tree just sold for 5 trillion yen, so it must be great!

But more... in the way, where you just forget it is even Bonsai... and you don't even care.
You just feel the wind creaking old branches as they sway and feel the sun as it warms your face...

And hope every day will be this day.

 

[Tieball]

Well.....a.....I'm at a loss for words to write........but mighty fine tree...and words from you.

 

[herzausstahl]

When you forget your looking at it in your yard & instead feel like your viewing it on a hike. I find my favorite time to go hiking in the woods around here is when it's raining, the sights, the smells, the colors, everything seems heightened. Especially when you get that earthy smell, or also even during a snowstorm. A different but equally great experience.

 

[A Random User]

Well.....a.....I'm at a loss for words to write........but mighty fine tree...and words from you.

Thanks, I appreciate it!

 

[A Random User]

When you forget your looking at it in your yard & instead feel like your viewing it on a hike. I find my favorite time to go hiking in the woods around here is when it's raining, the sights, the smells, the colors, everything seems heightened. Especially when you get that earthy smell, or also even during a snowstorm. A different but equally great experience.

Thanks for the reply and the shared experience!

 

[Tieball]

When you forget your looking at it in your yard & instead feel like your viewing it on a hike. I find my favorite time to go hiking in the woods around here is when it's raining, the sights, the smells, the colors, everything seems heightened. Especially when you get that earthy smell, or also even during a snowstorm. A different but equally great experience.

After or during the rain is certainly exciting to all the senses. One of my favorite activities is getting out after the rain....out anywhere.

 

[MichaelS]

procumbens does not throw scale foliage. What you have there is J. chinensis San Hose IMO

There is another one here...misidentified... (#10)

http://www.artofbonsai.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=995&start=30

 

[M. Frary]

procumbens does not throw scale foliage. What you have there is J. chinensis San Hose IMO

There is another one here...misidentified... (#10)

http://www.artofbonsai.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=995&start=30

Procumbens nana do grow scale foliage. You just haven't been around one that's old enough.
San Jose seems harder to get to grow scale foliage and their juvenile foliage is larger than procumbens.
The one I used for the fall contest was a procumbens and it is half scale foliage. I also have one down at Vances that is almost all adult scale foliage.

 

[A Random User]

procumbens does not throw scale foliage. What you have there is J. chinensis San Hose IMO

There is another one here...misidentified... (#10)

http://www.artofbonsai.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=995&start=30

Thanks for the reply!
Sorry Michael... It's a Procumbens.

 

[MichaelS]

Procumbens nana do grow scale foliage. You just haven't been around one that's old enough..

Well I have one that's about 40 years and no scale foliage yet. Is that old enough? Also there are many Japanese examples out there that are a century or more with no scale foliage.
In the thousands that I've seen over the years, I have never seen scale foliage form ever. Even very old ones in the ground. Maybe it's a temperature thing

 

[aml1014]

Procumbens nana do grow scale foliage. You just haven't been around one that's old enough.
San Jose seems harder to get to grow scale foliage and their juvenile foliage is larger than procumbens.
The one I used for the fall contest was a procumbens and it is half scale foliage. I also have one down at Vances that is almost all adult scale foliage.

They seem to put out adult foliage even at a young age here, my buddy has several with adult foliage.

Aaron

 

[Coach]

Really cool tree but that pot is insane!!!! Crazy cool and fits this tree quite nicely

 

[A Random User]

@M. Frary , @MichaelS, @aml1014

Could you guys post up a couple of pictures of your trees or your buddies trees in the case of aml1014... and tell us what type of work you have done on it?

Perhaps, it might determine better how they turn?

I can tell you right off the bat, that this tree is not that old, that I have much older ones with juvenile foliage that I haven't done much work to...

And clearly, it is not completely weather, seeing that if people up north have them turning.

 

[A Random User]

Really cool tree but that pot is insane!!!! Crazy cool and fits this tree quite nicely

Thanks, I appreciate it!
I made the pot for a tree a while back, but it didn't work as nice as I thought it would for that tree... just been lying around since and needed one for this tree.

 

[M. Frary]

Could you guys post up a couple of pictures of your trees or your buddies trees in the case of aml1014... and tell us what type of work you have done on it?

Sure. This the one from the fall contest last year. I know it can't be that old. It is just over an inch in diameter at the dirt.
It's about half and half right now. It will push juvenile foliage in the spring when it wakes up but will keep what adult foliage it has. It takes a long time if ever for one to get all adult foliage here. I've only seen them with partial not all of their foliage adult. And then not very often.
The other one I have is at Vances house. It is 30 years old and came from Georgia. It has mostly adult scale foliage on it.

 

[thomas22]

This link describes the three different type of foliage on Procumbens Junipers. I have a couple myself and they have mature foliage but go juvenal after any significant work.
http://www.allshapesbonsai.com/blog/plant-profiles/juniper-procumbens

I think people often confuse them with Procumbens Nana that does not get mature foliage.

 

[A Random User]

This link describes the three different type of foliage on Procumbens Junipers. I have a couple myself and they have mature foliage but go juvenal after any significant work.
http://www.allshapesbonsai.com/blog/plant-profiles/juniper-procumbens

I think people often confuse them with Procumbens Nana that does not get mature foliage.

Yes, but the problem here is that the tree I posted is a "Nana", and it is 100 percent adult foliage.

This, along with the notion that really, every Procumbens juniper people are using for Bonsai here in the states is the Cultivar "Nana".

 

[sorce]

I wonder how dry it is up in Mike's Aussie. Lol....don't read that wrong !

Fl and Mi are humid.

Maybe that accounts.

I haven't seen ONE without mature folaige before. Them seedlings from the deeps.

Sorce

 

[GSCarlson]

“I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.”

― Nikos Kazantzakis

 

[MichaelS]

They seem to put out adult foliage even at a young age here, my buddy has several with adult foliage.

Aaron

Hmmmm, I suspect that what is being sold as procumbens there is really something else...or what is being sold as procumbens here is ..... I doubt they are the same thing.
@M. Frary, I would call that San Jose every day of the week. I could be wrong. It might be the nana vs normal thing too?
This is one of my J. P.nanas ;
https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/procumbens-re-worked.23854/
@sawgrass. All the nanas here are the same clone as far as I know. I don't think I've even seen a straight ''procumbens'' in real life but I suspect the Japanese bonsai are the genuine thing .

Here's one




Another. (collected for sure, so it MUST be a genuine procumbens)



And an American Nana (one of my favourite bonsai)




No scale leaves anywhere to be seen.