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25-Jul-2003
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1990 My first yamadori. I dug this from a housing tract that was being built near my home. The homes were going into an old olive orchard and this was ripe for plucking. Pay attention to that blue ugly pot. It will make a showing a little later. That pot BTW is 24" across and 36" long and 7" deep.
Top pic is as dug, bottom is after trimming. I should have just left it alone, it looked better!
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25-Jul-2003
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1993 My first real piece of good stock. I couldn't wait to get my hands on this one. I spied it in a local nursery and my wife bought it for me for Christmas. I started to work on it Xmas day!
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25-Jul-2003
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I actually still have whats left of this tree. They don't like heat, and the pressure cooker I live in has taken it's toll on this poor Hinoki. This is just before the club show in 1994. The best it ever looked. Tree stood 43" tall
I will not show you what it looks like now, it's embarrassing!
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25-Jul-2003
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Now we move to the coup' de gras.
I had seen in a convention a foemina grove like the one Naka did. (Goshin) The grove was beautiful. I had to have one. I began scouring all the nurseries and found that the foemina juniper did not exist. I finally found them at a place called Rolling Hills Nursery long since out of business here, but then, owned by a great bonsai artist in Fresno, Ray Theime. The start to my forest, 1985
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25-Jul-2003
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In the gazebo in 1987
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25-Jul-2003
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1988 I purchased a fatter mother tree to bind the whole grove together. I think it had 7 trees now, I started with 5. The grove to the left and the new tree in the can next to it.
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25-Jul-2003
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Sometime in 1988, I had the trees in the ugly blue pot. I don't know what provoked me to do this, but I can imagine it's because the grove had grown to about 9 or 11 trees by now and had outgrown the 1" deep tray that it had been planted in before.
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25-Jul-2003
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In 1994 the grove had finally been planted in an appropriate pot. A nice tokomome tray I bought from Muranaka. The trees were starting to look pretty good.
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25-Jul-2003
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OK, jump to July 2003. I had to put the garbage cans out the other day. I noticed my green can had hardly any thing in it. Just a few grass clippings. I decided to remove a large morning glory that had invaded a large portion of my fence, the neigbors fence the bonsai bench and a large plum tree.
I started wacking on this thing and stufing prunings in the can. When I was finished, I found the old juniper grove under the old morning glory plant. Now I knew the grove was there. I just figured it was dead, and that all the foliage had been turning brown from no sunlight. This has become my new project for next year. I think it is time I take the only remaining plant I have from my past and try to bring some beauty to this poor soul. If we do a restyling contest this is what I would use. I was surprised to find the foliage in fairly good condition. I haven't really seen this plant for about 15 months. Thats the tangled morning glory stump in the background. Here it is from 1985
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25-Jul-2003
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Al,
A big THANK YOU for posting these pictures. Just the other week I threw away a lot of "trees" that I started two years ago. They were looking terrible and I was wondering why I ever bought them. Now that I've seen how your start was I know there's still hope for me. I feel much better now. regards, René |
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