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Spuds Moyogi
There have been lots of posts and comments over the years involving older trees and how to manage them. Among those comments are Some that argue buying older developed trees is basically not as dynamic as creating something from scratch”
This NBF blog post is about the initial design donation and redesign of a signature tree in the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum
I saw this tree just after it was donated back in the early 90s when collected native trees weren’t common and Bald Cypress was a relative unquantified species to adapt. This is perhaps the one tree that pushed me into bonsai particularly native trees
Guy Guidry and his group of Gulf Coast pirate bonsaists have been a key group in the history of bonsai in the U.S.
The radical redesign and repotting (done all at once off-season -don’t try that at home
) shows how older established trees have to undergo sometime radical treatment involving substantial design decisions that are just —if not more (given the iconic status) — as profound as those done on less established developing trees
www.bonsai-nbf.org
This NBF blog post is about the initial design donation and redesign of a signature tree in the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum
I saw this tree just after it was donated back in the early 90s when collected native trees weren’t common and Bald Cypress was a relative unquantified species to adapt. This is perhaps the one tree that pushed me into bonsai particularly native trees
Guy Guidry and his group of Gulf Coast pirate bonsaists have been a key group in the history of bonsai in the U.S.
The radical redesign and repotting (done all at once off-season -don’t try that at home
) shows how older established trees have to undergo sometime radical treatment involving substantial design decisions that are just —if not more (given the iconic status) — as profound as those done on less established developing trees
Guy Guidry and the Bald Cypress: An Artist and His Tree Grow Up Together — National Bonsai Foundation
In the world of bonsai, time can be the artist’s greatest collaborator. Few stories illustrate this better than that of Guy Guidry’s bald cypress, one of the original 50 trees that launched the North American Collection at the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum. Donated in 1990 when Guy was in
www.bonsai-nbf.org
