grouper52
Masterpiece
I thought I had posted this bad boy here before, but it seems not.
First photo from 12/06, shortly after getting him home and starting to rein him in with some guy wires. I had purchased this tree from Dan Robinson, who collected him from a lowland bog on northern Vancouver Island a few years before. In fact, the way I really got to know Dan was by haggling with him over the price of this thing all one afternoon at Elandan Gardens: he really didn't want to sell it, so I paid dearly for it, but in the bargain we became friends. My phone call to come talk to him about the tree, and our meeting to look at it is, indeed, captured in my preface to the book.
The second photo is a current shot, and the third is a macro, which may give you some idea why we love these unruly things so much. Enjoy.
First photo from 12/06, shortly after getting him home and starting to rein him in with some guy wires. I had purchased this tree from Dan Robinson, who collected him from a lowland bog on northern Vancouver Island a few years before. In fact, the way I really got to know Dan was by haggling with him over the price of this thing all one afternoon at Elandan Gardens: he really didn't want to sell it, so I paid dearly for it, but in the bargain we became friends. My phone call to come talk to him about the tree, and our meeting to look at it is, indeed, captured in my preface to the book.
The second photo is a current shot, and the third is a macro, which may give you some idea why we love these unruly things so much. Enjoy.