bonsaiTALK Community - View Single Post - Japanese Hornbeam with lots of deadwood,

The front, straight on with the jin, reminds me very much of an art deco woman, in a long evening gown, the kinda woman who smokes her cigarettes through one of those rediculously long contraptions, much like the Pengiun in Batman uses,...I think a fitting name would be "Cruella de Hornbeam".
That said, treating this tree as if it were a glamerous lady would deffinately play off of a contrast/compliment type of styling,...possibly thinner branches with gentle curves, that wiring will give you as opposed to clip and grow training, maybe a even a bit of a weeping habit with quite a bit of brach structure showing would look dainty and soft enough to contrast the deadwood,...yet would still add some years to the tree's appearance.
I'll try to get a virt up soon.

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1-Jun-2006	#6
zen w/ Hippyistic Tendencies Join Date: Jan-2005 Location: Commerce GA (Near Athens) Country: U.S. USDA Zone: 7b AHS Heat Zone: 7 Posts: 1,844	The front, straight on with the jin, reminds me very much of an art deco woman, in a long evening gown, the kinda woman who smokes her cigarettes through one of those rediculously long contraptions, much like the Pengiun in Batman uses,...I think a fitting name would be "Cruella de Hornbeam". That said, treating this tree as if it were a glamerous lady would deffinately play off of a contrast/compliment type of styling,...possibly thinner branches with gentle curves, that wiring will give you as opposed to clip and grow training, maybe a even a bit of a weeping habit with quite a bit of brach structure showing would look dainty and soft enough to contrast the deadwood,...yet would still add some years to the tree's appearance. I'll try to get a virt up soon. __________________ "Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work." ~ Alan Watts (1915-1973)