WEI
Mame
I snagged a spot in Todd Schlafer's workshop at the ABS Learning Seminars, where he brought a few colorado blue spruce yamadori to work on.
Todd gave us all an online preview of the workshop trees, and I was shocked no one had snagged this specimen when I checked his email a while later. it also happened to be the cheapest of a lot of 12; I would've paid 2-3x the price if I'd seen it on the sales floor at Nationals. People have big trunk syndrome, I guess, and his largest trees were first to go.
about 30" tall, 20" wide. this actually has two separate trunks that grew very close together, and the front obscures that. I managed to only clean the tree and wire a few branches with Todd; three hours disappeared.
a long drive back, and I decided to lock in and finish the styling before classes resumed come Monday. about 10 hours of work later:
I stopped naming my trees a while back, but I think this one deserved one. 'Cathedral' seemed apt. the deadwood spires, some natural and others I stripped, feel reminiscent of gothic architecture.
it will probably go into a first-gen worm-eaten Yamaaki. some of the spires, coincidentally, are worm-eaten. look forward to seeing this ramify.
Todd gave us all an online preview of the workshop trees, and I was shocked no one had snagged this specimen when I checked his email a while later. it also happened to be the cheapest of a lot of 12; I would've paid 2-3x the price if I'd seen it on the sales floor at Nationals. People have big trunk syndrome, I guess, and his largest trees were first to go.
about 30" tall, 20" wide. this actually has two separate trunks that grew very close together, and the front obscures that. I managed to only clean the tree and wire a few branches with Todd; three hours disappeared.
a long drive back, and I decided to lock in and finish the styling before classes resumed come Monday. about 10 hours of work later:
I stopped naming my trees a while back, but I think this one deserved one. 'Cathedral' seemed apt. the deadwood spires, some natural and others I stripped, feel reminiscent of gothic architecture.
it will probably go into a first-gen worm-eaten Yamaaki. some of the spires, coincidentally, are worm-eaten. look forward to seeing this ramify.
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