Sekibonsai
Shohin
Honorable son #1 got hitched 2 weeks ago. I was asked about a year ago if I would make the centerpieces- bonsai- Eventually we settled on boxwood and I purchased about 22 3 gallon trees from a local nursery that had some potential- heavier trunks, some good movement... Realizing I wasn't going to be able to make "real bonsai" in a year, I carefully reduced the rootballs by about 1/2 and cleaned out the structure to a "tree-like form", with our southern live oaks as inspiration. By that I mean there were things that normally might be taken off but in this case I had to keep enough to pull off the mallsai imagery. Wire and tie-downs were applied. They then received a growing season of careful feeding and thinning to develop some very basic forms.
The pots I ended up having to use (per the bride and the wedding planner) were nothing bonsai-like. I didn't have much faith in the outcome but hey, there wouldn't be a person who knew what they were looking at. Thanks to Covid restrictions we went form a guest list of 200+ down to about 50 so I only had to put together 8 at the end.
I only got the one picture but the guests were fighting to take one home. Once they were out they didn't look too damn bad.
Then on to the REALLY fun part... "the favors"...
The pots I ended up having to use (per the bride and the wedding planner) were nothing bonsai-like. I didn't have much faith in the outcome but hey, there wouldn't be a person who knew what they were looking at. Thanks to Covid restrictions we went form a guest list of 200+ down to about 50 so I only had to put together 8 at the end.
I only got the one picture but the guests were fighting to take one home. Once they were out they didn't look too damn bad.
Then on to the REALLY fun part... "the favors"...