Hartinez
Masterpiece
Picked up 3 of these a few months ago. Looked it up and these are a dwarf variety with particularly tight and small fronds.
Heavily worked the foliage and roots on 1, planted another to gain size and just worked this one the other day. It had multiple trunks so I wasn’t sure how to handle it. I was inspired when I saw this image of an old growth western red cedar. Now the tree will prob never have the mature bark to really make this tree 100% convincing, but it’s foliage size, I felt, was conducive to an immediate styling. Regardless this was fun.
The diagram is more candelabra than what I made, but the biggest inspiration and take away i pulled from the image, was the multiple apecies and trunks that are present. Really need to baby this one as it’s HOT right now.
Lastly, my wiring needs work, but I though this 10 dollar material was a good opportunity to practice.
Here’s a pic of 1 of the others I bought. Not this one, but I always forget the before shot. It looked about the same though.
Heavily worked the foliage and roots on 1, planted another to gain size and just worked this one the other day. It had multiple trunks so I wasn’t sure how to handle it. I was inspired when I saw this image of an old growth western red cedar. Now the tree will prob never have the mature bark to really make this tree 100% convincing, but it’s foliage size, I felt, was conducive to an immediate styling. Regardless this was fun.
The diagram is more candelabra than what I made, but the biggest inspiration and take away i pulled from the image, was the multiple apecies and trunks that are present. Really need to baby this one as it’s HOT right now.
Lastly, my wiring needs work, but I though this 10 dollar material was a good opportunity to practice.
Here’s a pic of 1 of the others I bought. Not this one, but I always forget the before shot. It looked about the same though.