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2-Jun-2003
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DiamondLyme84's Contest Entry (reposted)
Here is a reposted thread of my contest entry. I found this puppy at the nursery for $7 in a cracked black pot with hardly any soil. It seemed to be well though and it had fairly well developed surface roots.
Species: Serissa Japonica "Single Pink" Price: $7.00 (okay, actually $6.9  Before Height: 17.5" tall from soil level Before spread: 20" wide
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Here is a closeup of the before trunk. Unfortunately there are only two before pictures. Also, unfortunately, there were two branches kind of piggybacking the trunk. I tried to use these in the design, but they later ended up just not working and had to be taken off.
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And here's the after picture (taken about two weeks ago). I left some growth on the right side to let the branches thicken a little bit. The height will also be gradually reduced once the growth below thickens more.
Finished height: 14.5" high from soil level Finished spread: 13.5" wide Finished pot: Black Plastic Nursery Pot It was probably more of a learning experience than anything else. This was also much tougher to wire: on this, if you didn't support a branch enough while bending it, the branch would just split--on my ficus I could bend branches each and every way with the least bit of trouble. This is the the pickiest species I've worked with in my few months of bonsai; but although I've heard so many people complain about how these are so picky, I haven't had any problems with it. When the after picture was taken, it had 4 or 5 blooms--this morning it had 19! Oh yeah, the picture:
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