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bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman
Join Date: May-2005
Country: The Netherlands
Posts: 983
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Old "mugo" Pine.
Hi everybody,
As promised here are some pictures of the whole "Mugo"Pine featured in mine woodwork article from a few days ago. This Pine was bought in early 2002 in Switzerland. In September 2003: the tree was brought from there to me wile i stayed at the Gingko awards in Belgium that year. After 2 days at this bonsai event, Danny (the owner) was glad I took the tree (that stood in his garden) home whit me to Holland, He was tired from explaining a hundred times or so to customers "THAT TREE ISN'T MINE TO SELL !!!" HA HA!!. I re potted the pine in a large and heavy tokoname pot in early 2004. Because there was not much root work don, and the tree was doing really great, I dissident that it was safe to do the first styling.
October 2004.
Pic. 1: After more than 25% off the excess branches were cut off. Here you can allso clearly see how the branch stump from my wood work article looked like, before i did any work on it.
Pic. 2: View into the tangled and to long branches.
Pic. 3: Getting the foliage more or less into the right place was a bid off a puzzle but a lot of fun. Here you can also see the tree is completely hollow.
Pic. 4: The day after. Looking already much better.
Pic. 5: Then some heavy duty wood work. The large shari was difficult to design because the tree is hollow.
Pic. 6: A few hours later, working with heavy power tools. You see: i do wear safety glasses!
Pic.7: This picture was taken last weekend. There is not much wire in the tree and because off the heavy feeding program it is in this year, the needles are very long. The candles were cut off as soon as the were completely opened up, witch resulted in a lot off back budding and around every candle that was cut, at least two new strong buds returned. There still is a lot off work to do on the deadwood, but i have all the time in the world. The tree remind me off a swan with here head between here wings, swimming to the left, pushing a wave along in front of here. Or a rocket, crashing into the sea, with flames still bursting out off it.
Pic. 8: The same picture, but i made a virtual off a smaller pot underneed it, so you can have a idea off the way the tree will look with the dead wood sticking out over the edge off the pot.
You can see the whole story on my website in a month or so.
Remember the tree only had one styling up to now and there is still a lot of work to do! Bud I'm pretty pleased up to now, hope you like it to!
Hans.
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