Spruce Project

Walter_Pall

This European spruce (Norway spruce it is only called by the English, I don't thjink even the Norwegians call it that) Picea abies I found in the Alps six years ago.

This is the view already potted in summer of 2001.
It is an extremely dificult tree to style, alomst impossible. This is exactly why it is a challenge. Often this sort of impossible material turns out to be very good in the end. Let's see.

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Walter_Pall

A few days later this is what I came up with.

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Walter_Pall

This morning I put it onto the workbench again. Some work on the deadwood was done last year.
Within the next couple of days I will refine it a bit more.

Thoughts etc. welcome

best regards
Walter Pall

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Larry

You did a good job there Walter, I wouldnt have a clue where to begin!

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TreeBay

Walter you have the most amazing material. It looks like that moon pot is used a little differently than I have seen. Usually the upper lip of the crescent is on the side away from the prevailing direction of the tree. Since the tree seems to want to move right, I'd expect to see the moon facing that direction sort of like
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Does this orientation of the pot just reflect a change in fronts?

Regards,

Matt

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Tiny-Plant

nice tree

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Walter_Pall

'Does this orientation of the pot just reflect a change in fronts?'

Matt,

good question. Yes indeed it does. But I think this usage is not altogether a bad idea. This totally unorthodox tree might as well be in an unorthodox position in a funny pot.

When I put the tree into the pot before styling I had only a vague ide of the exact outcome. This is why I missed the final front somehow.

Your book tells you to first style a tree then to repot it. Good advice; for normal trees with normal rootballs, for nursery trees.

With collected trees it often happens that the challenge is not so much to make a decent tree out of the material but rather to get it inot the right pot eventually. Often one has many options with the crown like with this tree.

Therefore my advice with wild untamed material is to first try to make a peliminary vague decision of what to do with it. Then try to squeeze it into the final pot somehow. Then wait for a couple of years and style the crown. In case you want to change the position in the pot or even the whole pot you can now still do that. But you are at least sure that the tree fits into some pot.

These funny pots are very useful for wild material which would not physically and maybe artistically fit a normal pot.

I may still pot it into a more classical container eventually though.

best regards
Walter Pall

Walter_Pall

Now it is 'finsihed' again.
Opinions?

best regards
Walter Pall

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How is this?

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