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27-Oct-2002
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A nice verticle stone with hole and pockets in it. Place it in a suiban(bonsai tray without holes) with water in it. Plant 3 to 5 of these with some moss and a little azeala or ferns and you have a great Chinese cliff scene. A small clay boat in the water is nice too!
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27-Oct-2002
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Heres a nice double trunk one all bent up. Little larger trunk, this would be the main tree in the scene. Hey! I might go back and but these all up and try one myself, maybe it will be the next prize in my next contest!
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27-Oct-2002
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Moving on to the black pine area. We have all sorts of choices here. Black pine is a tricky subject. While some say they are easy to train and prune, there are others that say they have terrible luck with them. I have had terrible luck with them, and have just recently began to get a hold on them. The last 5 years have been the easiest, due to lots of training sessions with Dennis Makashima. Dennis comes to Fresno once a month to prune the Black pines in the Shin Zen gardens in Fresno. A premiere Japanese garden setting with a hundred bonsai Black pines. He enlists the Fresno Bonsai Society to help with pruning. Hey its work, but we get to work with a master. And...the training is free.
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27-Oct-2002
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A few of the stand outs on the top shelf. This is the hundreds of dollars shelf. This is where one would go after you picked your best 4 or 5 plants, and then wanted to pick out one plant to spend the whole roll on.
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27-Oct-2002
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Another fine tree. This is what you need to be looking for. Branches down low on the trunk. BP's will not bud from bare wood or branches without needles. The branch patterns have been introduced and need further refining. This could be accomplished in a few years.
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27-Oct-2002
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This is an example of a small black pine not yet pruned back. While this tree has obviously been grown with bonsai in mind, it still needs much work. The things that make it a stand out are; lots o branches, low down on the trunk, short internodes on the branches. Long internodes are the biggest culprit for poor black pine stock. Once the internodes are long, and the needles fall off, there is nothing one can do to chase the green part back to the trunk.That is why it is most important on pines to get good, er..make that exceptional stock from the getgo.
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27-Oct-2002
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This would be an example of stock to just pass by. There is nothing one could do for this poor thing. Good for the yard I guess. Just not what I would look for in stock. This is an example of long internodes. The bare trunk in between the foliage is about one years growth.
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27-Oct-2002
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Small black pine whips can be bent the same as the elms. Just get those skinny whips for about 5.00 a piece, grab some wire and have at it.
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27-Oct-2002
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Once their pottd up, they would make great accent plants. They would also work well on the Chinese saikai scenes too.
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27-Oct-2002
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Ahh.... Import elms. My biggest pet peeve. I can't figure out what makes these so appealing to the general public, but they sure do sell good. The "s" curve is so fake. I have never seen a tree grow like this. I am sure that somone here could find a tree growing all contorted like this, but it would not be the norm, and sure never be considered as such.
Some will say, " but Al, you just showed us how to bend a elm and pine into all these weird shapes, are they not fake?" Well you would be right. Trees for the most part do not grow all twisted up like that either. But.... look at the s elms, and then look at the twisted up elms. There is something artistic about the way the elms are bent. For one thing they tend to be smaller in size which may help, but I think mostly its just that one bend in the s elm that makes it look so hoaky.
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