The Tree Thread

[SantaFeBonsai]

 

[Carol 83]

Helen Johnson bougainvillea. I was hoping to get a shot in full bloom, but the cold front moving in may put a damper on that.

 

[BobbyLane]

couple of new additions

japanese maple and field maple. the field only cost £25, its been sat at the back of the nursery for a few years ill see what i can do with it.both have been heavily reduced to fit them in my car!
the j maple will make a beautiful naturalistic tree, nice movement in the trunks and subtrunks, options to create tapering subs, surface roots, no ugly grafts.
theres a formal upright in the FM. both trees also have nice low branches.
hunting season has began!

ive got my eye on this Tilia but its goin to need taming .

 

[BobbyLane]

Last image of this Zelkova as its heading off to a new home....wonderful radial nebari that will get better over time

 

[Wilson]

I was at the library last night, when a friend from a local nursery called. She said she had something to drop off, and was sure I would really like it. I arrived home to a cut down bald cypress in a 7 gal. container! Always a nice way to start a weekend, being reminded how thoughtful people can be.

 

[wireme]

Larches are turning. Little guy in front, full size in back.

 

[wireme]

 

[wireme]

Hmmf, that felt like a pretty short fall.

 

[MACH5]

Recent first styling of a subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa). I would like to try this on a curved slab next spring.

 

[Djtommy]

Rhododendron daurum, a Year and a half in between, the pot broke once in between and I fixed it.

 

[Djtommy]

A recent white pine styling.

 

[Djtommy]

My red pine

 

[Djtommy]

This one has a
most 4 years in between.

 

[parhamr]

New purchase: a Shimpaku Itoigowa grown from a cutting since 1988 by Alan Taft


The trunk and primary branching are great. It doesn’t yet have a defined front (several look equally great) and some of the branches would benefit from foliage grafted back toward the inside.

 

[Vance Wood]

Not that my opinion may mean much to you but there is a definite clockwise growth pattern in the bark and trunk that if the tree were mine I would take advantage of. It is always best to let a tree give you ideas rather than your mandate on the tree an arbitrary growth direction. Sometimes the best designs and work come from recognizing these kind of things and working to accentuate them, building the design off of the trees characteristics, especially in areas that are very difficult or impossible to control if you try to carve them into the existing wood.

 

[parhamr]

Not that my opinion may mean much to you but there is a definite clockwise growth pattern in the bark and trunk that if the tree were mine I would take advantage of. It is always best to let a tree give you ideas rather than your mandate on the tree an arbitrary growth direction. Sometimes the best designs and work come from recognizing these kind of things and working to accentuate them, building the design off of the trees characteristics, especially in areas that are very difficult or impossible to control if you try to carve them into the existing wood.

Nah, mate. I was gonna carve the shari counterclockwise



Here’s that Douglas-fir from a page or two back, now wired up.

 

[Nybonsai12]

 

[Shima]

Good berry crop this year.

 

[jimib]

Ponderosa pine collected 3+ years ago..(not by me) wired this week

 

[Housguy]

Trident maple


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