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27-Oct-2002
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A close up on those weird trunks. For the most part, these trees come pretty much 2 dimensional. They seldom have any depth from back branches, since the branches come from the trunk on one plane.
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27-Oct-2002
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From the same grower we find trunks that are much more in tune to bonsai. The trunks have been grown rather straight, but have very subtle curves. Very good for bonsai. The trees on this rack are smallest at the bottom front and graduate to the largest and most expensive in the back top. The smallest are around 30.00 up to 90.00 for the ones in back. The ones in back at 90.00 need little work and would make suitable bonsai on their own. Some clip and grow on the foliage pads for a couple seasons would make these ready to show.
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27-Oct-2002
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More great stock from the back row.
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27-Oct-2002
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Here's one from the back row all potted up in a glazed Chinese pot. Nice tree, subtle curves in the trunk, branches are in good positions.
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27-Oct-2002
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Here's one of those ole s-o-roo's potted up in nearly the same pot. Scroll back and forth, and you tell me, which one looks like a real tree? My opinion... steer clear of the import "s" trunk elms, they will never look convincing.
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27-Oct-2002
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Staked procumbens, this is a gold mine. If you find these at a reduced price about now, buy all you can. Cut these back hard now! Prune most of the staked part off just leaving the trunk and a few small branches with some green on them. Next spring these baby's will explode into shohin dream boats overnight.
Leave a few to make some upright designs out of. There is a bonsai shop right off the embarcadero in San Francisco near pier 39 that makes bonsai by the thousands. He uses this exact plant. Carves them out a little, wires them up, sticks them into a mallsai blue pot and sells proabably about 50 a weekend.
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27-Oct-2002
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Greybeard
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Here's one all carved out with some wire, a small accent azeala, and some stones. The plant is mostly just removed from the can and placed in with hardly much work. The result is very convincing. Not up my alley, But the owner has the gift season to think about. This is the kind of stuff that sells well as gifts.
If you like this sort of display, don't overlook staked juniper procumbens. These trees sell for about 25.00 in the can.
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27-Oct-2002
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These are a few of the staked junipers that some of the regulars, like me,come in and carve around on for fun. We throw a little wire on and twist them up for unusual shapes. They don't last long, and are the ones that sell out first.
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27-Oct-2002
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Don't forget to look in all the out of the way places in the nursery. Sometimes they have a "bone pile" that is just the place your looking for. This is where all the misfits end up. Well.. these ain't no misfits, and are probably 75.00 dollar shimpaku junipers. They are in 5 gallon cans, and have great foliage on them.
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27-Oct-2002
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Of the five, only one really moves me. This plant talks to me when I look at it. There is something I see in it that maybe no one else sees.
Do you see what I see?
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