Juniper Cascade Workshop with Colin Lewis

Bart Thomas(deceased)

Last month, at Bill Valavanis' convention in Rochester, I participated in a Juniper Cascade workshop with Colin Lewis.

Bill had been growing the trees, described as 'Japanes Garden Junipers' for 10 years, and I expected procumbens, but they turned out to be j. squamata prostrata, according to Iris Cohen.

One of Colin's objectives was to teach jinning technique, so we all did our jins before doing any shaping of the trees themselves.

The first photo is Colin helping with another person's tree, the rest deal with my tree: a before shot, then two views after jinning and preliminary thinning and wiring.

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	Colin s.jpg (39.0 KB, 53 views)
	Jun Casc before s.jpg (67.2 KB, 41 views)
	Jun Casc step1 s.jpg (56.3 KB, 51 views)
	Jun Casc step 1a s.jpg (66.8 KB, 54 views)

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Bart Thomas(deceased)

Here is the tree as it appears now.

I do not plan to use a tall cascade pot, but something more like (or possibly) the shown pot in the second photo.

I am leaning more towards a pot in the shape of the Sara Rayner pot in the third photo (The shimpaku was a demo by Kobayashi from the '03 MidAtlantic.) I plan to adjust its potting angle when I repot next spring - the tree was so pot-bound that it was not possible to pot at the correct angle in one repotting.

Any suggestions?

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	Jun Casc Oct 04 s.jpg (69.5 KB, 69 views)
	J sei c pot s.jpg (32.6 KB, 22 views)
	Kobayashi Casc 10 04 s.jpg (57.3 KB, 65 views)

rowan57

Very nice tree, if i may ask, how come the foliage is so light in the picture of the "finished for now" tree?

i think you are right about the pot choice, the sarah raynor pot is a good shape, size and colour for it,
Rowan

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Bart Thomas(deceased)

Thanks. Part of the difference is probably the lighting. Flash in the earlier photos, overcast sky in the last one. The tree has a naturally brighter green foliage than most junipers I have seen in bonsai. The tree is healthy.

By the way, one of the first things that had to be done, was to put a wire on the pot to hold it steady on the inverted paint bucket. There was so much foliage that all of the trees were very unstable!