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bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman
Join Date: May-2005
Country: The Netherlands
Posts: 931
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Cant wait to start!
Hi everybody,
I was taking some pics of trees i am planing to give there final styling later this season, two of them will go in to a show next season. The are all yamadori Taxus i collected in the UK in '96/'97. These pics are for a before and after story that is going to be featured on my new website that is being very hard worked on right now!
Pic 1: Is a small one 30 cm high, that i made out of a yamadori of about 80 cm, it was a gift from my close friend Tony Tickle when he and my other UK friends of our group stayed in my house prior to the second Ginkgo awards in '97. There has been no wire in any of the trees for more than a year now, to let them grow freely before the get there final shaping somewhere in October.
Pic 2: Close up of the beautiful death wood on this small tree, a clear sign off the age of this survivor.
Pic 3: This is my favorite one, it is on of the first ones i collected on the now famous "field of dreams" were many of great yamadori of our group was fount.
It is only 21 cm high but i think it looks a lot bigger. It took years to get the foliage as close to the trunk as it is now, but ones again a proof that patience is always rewarded in bonsai!
Pic 4: Close up of the trunk that has a lot of character and death wood for such a small bonsai.
Pic 5: This tree was a struggle because it had long strait branches with only foliage at the and. So most of the past years were spend on pushing the tree in to back budding closer and closer to the trunk until there was enough to start working with, That's why the tree isn't as far as the other two and will take at least 2/3 years more until it is show ready. It is 33cm high.
Pic 6: close up off the deadwood that still have to get it final styling, this i will do when the tree has had its final styling, i need to know the final impression of the hole tree before i start to work on the Shari!
I hope you like them,
Hans.
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