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28-Oct-2006
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Seeking inner Bonsai
 
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A second look
The first picture is the juniper when I picked it up and the second is it's current look. The foliage needs to be refined and worked to create tighter pads. In the spring of '08 I think will be the best time to get it in it's first bonsai pot. The jin work is larger than advised but I hope it helps to create some balance. I am not sure. The small lower branch on the left I was also going to jin up, but at the last moment decided to keep, bend and hopfully back bud up and grow a little green pad of foliage. Any suggestions, or should I just scrap the whole project.
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28-Oct-2006
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bonsaiTALK ArchMaster
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This is pretty good stock. I would aim to make it leaner though. Eliminate the wired trunk completely. It doesn't add much. I would aim to bring the foliage into a tighter silhouette up top. You're probably on the path to a literati tree. Do a search on literati bonsai. Study the images and how they're achieved--then look at the tree again--after you think about it a little. Trees aren't designed in a session or even three sometimes. Sometimes it takes months or years of elminating branches to really get an idea for some trees.
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29-Oct-2006
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Thanks for the thoughts. Just trying to imagine it.
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