Ryan Neil workshop at Danny Use's Place

[Fonz]

Yesterday I was Lucky enough to attend a workshop with Ryan Neil at Danny Use's Nursery. What an awesome experience that was.
The complete blog post is here: https://shumibonsai.wordpress.com/2020/02/28/ryan-neil-workshop-at-danny-uses-place/

Some pics:



Here's Ryan with my Sabina Juniper:



The result, for now. Windswept it is. The foliage on the left has to grow out a bit longer so it gets longer than the deadwood in front of it.

 

[Maloghurst]

That really is some great movement on your tree.

 

[Japonicus]

Nice! I don't even have a club close by.
Love the trunk on your Sabina
Looks like Ryan was pointing a bad boy to the corner

 

[Fonz]

Looks like Ryan was pointing a bad boy to the corner

I was allowed to join the group again after 30 minutes...

 

[just.wing.it]

Cool!
Nice juni!

 

[misfit11]

Great tree with some really nice movement. Congratulations on the opportunity to have Ryan work on it. He needs to get back over to our neck of the woods!

 

[Japonicus]

I was allowed to join the group again after 30 minutes...

Hilarious
Have you ever used walnut oil on your trunk?
Last year was the 1st time I stripped the bark off of my shimpaku and applied walnut oil right after.
Not so sure I dig the all one colour I got, but it seemed to "smear" the contrasting colours.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

one of the better executed windswept trees I've seen in a while. Windswept trees often look contrived. I like yours, nicely done.

 

[Fonz]

Guess this will be my progression thread for my Juniperus Sabina.
Since Ryan isn't around most of the time Danny Use agreed to follow up on all trees that were being worked on on the workshop.
Today we repotted my Sabina Juniper at Danny's Nursery.

Fresh out of the pot:



The new pot, one from Carles Veles Ceramica:



Danny placing the tree in the right position:



The end result:



And a screenshot from a video Danny made for his facebook page:

 

[leatherback]

aaah, thats yours..!

looking good!

 

[Fonz]

one of the better executed windswept trees I've seen in a while. Windswept trees often look contrived. I like yours, nicely done.

In this case I didn't do much to make it look like that. Spanish winds get all the credit