Nomad
Sapling
First time putting pictures up here, and I chose to put up my prebonsai tamaracks. With the nice weather and I just pulled out the tamaracks so... Anyways I was kinda anxious and didn't quite clean them up but I pulled out all the litter and stuff after the pictures were taken.
Larches are my favorite bonsai as a whole (although a well done Ezo is a close second), and I was pleased to have these four in my soon-to-be bonsai collection. They seem as though they have a lot of potential. All were collected within about 50 feet or so from each other, if that seems interesting to you.
^Collected spring 2013. I like the idea of a leaning shohin. Ramification is just starting and will look quite good with a nicer, thicker trunk.
^Collected Spring 2013. Has an interesting classical sort of look, but I'm still up in the air on my approach. Needs refinement. Second trunk halfway is unique and I'll have to consider what to do with it. Trunk itself is quite skinny.
^Collected Spring 2014. What attracted me so much to this was the very grotesque style. A crossed trunk style isnt usually attempted because of its stereotypical lack of form, and I haven't seen any recently really, but I feel it could work. Sure I could be really aggressive and turn it into a classical bonsai, but this has a unique natural line. Its quite ambitious for my level of experience but I am somewhat optimistic. This picture doesn't really do it justice but it shows the most detail. It still needs a good deal of refinement and ramification but I'm quite excited to see how it comes out.
^Collected spring 2014. Had no trimming whatsoever. It has a natural sort of windswept look and ramification will be an interesting shohin.
Thoughts, comments and suggestions are appreciated.
Larches are my favorite bonsai as a whole (although a well done Ezo is a close second), and I was pleased to have these four in my soon-to-be bonsai collection. They seem as though they have a lot of potential. All were collected within about 50 feet or so from each other, if that seems interesting to you.
^Collected spring 2013. I like the idea of a leaning shohin. Ramification is just starting and will look quite good with a nicer, thicker trunk.
^Collected Spring 2013. Has an interesting classical sort of look, but I'm still up in the air on my approach. Needs refinement. Second trunk halfway is unique and I'll have to consider what to do with it. Trunk itself is quite skinny.
^Collected Spring 2014. What attracted me so much to this was the very grotesque style. A crossed trunk style isnt usually attempted because of its stereotypical lack of form, and I haven't seen any recently really, but I feel it could work. Sure I could be really aggressive and turn it into a classical bonsai, but this has a unique natural line. Its quite ambitious for my level of experience but I am somewhat optimistic. This picture doesn't really do it justice but it shows the most detail. It still needs a good deal of refinement and ramification but I'm quite excited to see how it comes out.
^Collected spring 2014. Had no trimming whatsoever. It has a natural sort of windswept look and ramification will be an interesting shohin.
Thoughts, comments and suggestions are appreciated.
