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Bonsai Novice
Join Date: Apr-2005
Location: Melbourne
Country: Australia
Posts: 116
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Juniper Squamata from Upright to cascade
Hi All,
This was my first tree. Initially I messed up the styling, thinking that a cascade could come from a low hanging branch, instead of being the trunk that cascades (See fist pic). Later, after I observed a workshop with Hirotoshi Saito and I decided to try a technique he demonstrated on a 1.3 metre tall pine. He took that pine and bent it lower in an s-shape by about 50%, leaving it at around 60m height. Phenonmenal. What he did was wrap rafia around the trunk all the way along it. Then placed wire running up two sides (not wrapped around the trunk, but along it). Then took strips of cut-up bicycle inner tube and wrapped that around the trunk securely and ited it off. Then he took a lever and bent it slowly and carefully, listening for cracks.
Anyway, here's my juniper as it is currently, after a year of styling to correct my initial messed up styling, using the technique Hiro has demo'd. What do you think? Later, I'll post on overhead shot to give a better feel for the depth.
cheers,
spooky
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