Several years ago(4/5), I removed a cypress tree from my front yard…too close to drainfield. I took a look at him yesterday. He is about 13′-15′ tall but you can see he is a tubular, squatty type. I may just root prune and put him in a shallower grow pot but I was wondering what different members of the club might do………..now? Carve? Top? Trash? Here are three shots. (Trunk is probably 8″ caliper) rj
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I purchased a small cypress forest from our club member Gail Parillo at Cliff’s gathering in November. I bought a somewhat larger (still rather small) cypress from Gail also. Of course, Betsy and Alan told me I needed to combine the two. I actually styled the individual tree about a month ago. I added it to the copse a couple of weeks ago. Wish I had a picture of the original forest…but I don’t. Here is the forest restyled to incorporate the larger #1 tree.
I recently participated in a workshop with Guy Guidry. He sketched a tree for me………………here it is…….
Anyway, now I redesigned the forest hoping for a flat top look. Here is the new one………………………
I have repotted all my deciduous trees except one short fat cypress that I collected years ago…………….I’ll have to take a picture and get your ideas………………rick j
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Betsy and I went to Joy of Bonsai on Sunday, 1/17/10, to participate in Suthin Sukosolvisit’s bring your own tree workshop. I brought a large podocarpus that was salvaged from a 40 year old hedge that was trimmed to about 24 ” for all that time. Needless to say there were many low branches. After being dug from the hedge the podocarpus was grown in a large black pot for about 18 months. It looked very heathly and I was ready to “carve” the tree out of the green blob of leaves. I wanted a podo that was very dramatic with lots of jin and shari. The less live branches the better!
I already had picked the front and knew what I wanted the outcome to be so the day before the workshop I turned the first large branch on the left into a jin. So this is what it looked like when in brought it to the workshop.
I wanted assurance that I had made the best decision so off we went to the workshop. Suthin agreed with the front I had chosen and he helped me select the live branches. After the initial consultation I began the long process of creating the remaining jins and shari. I spents most of the 3 hours of the workshop working on it those two things. I only spent about 30 minutes wiring. I probably spent a total of 4 hours working on the jins and shari on this tree. After a few rounds, Suthin and I finally agreed the decisions we made were the right ones!
The next day I repottted it into a large training pot. It has a 9″ nebari spread and stands about 19″ - 20″. As you can see it needs much refinement but maybe one day I may try to submit it for the Flower and Garden Show at Epcot!
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This was my first time going to the Joy of Bonsai and I had a great time, as Clarina mentioned I acquired a new love for Shohin. Mike Cartrett (first time seeing) was doing a demo on a Podoacarpus triple truck he explained well and made jokes. This was also my first time seeing Suthin Sukosolvisit in action, he did a demo on a JBP, before and throughout the demo he gave great explaination on how and when to pluck needles and cut buds very informative. There were auctions and raffles, of course I participated in all the raffles thoughout the day and as they say I made out like a bandit. Here is what I won plus a 2007 International Bonsai Magazine.
This is a Weeping Crape Myrtle By Mike Rogers. Mike did a great job on the wiring, I think it was auctioned off later that night. I am sure it is going to be fun for who ever took it home. (Wished it was me)
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We went to Joy of Bonsai on Saturday, and we had a great time! The exhibition had wonderful trees, with marvelous shohins. Louise’s trees placed many of us in the shohin mood. They were beautiful, and so well presented.
The demos given by Mike Cartrett, Suthin Sukosolvisit, and Mike Rogers were informative, funny with a lot of interesting stories and full of tips for bonsais. Each one of the artists had time to do two or three different trees which gave a variety of knowledge to the audience.
Below is one of the trees from Mike Rogers:
This is only a sample of the many trees. We enjoyed the time we spent at Kawa. Great job!
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In our last meeting we had Ben Oki working on the podocarpus tree. The result was the beautiful tree below. He also did some workshop on the member’s trees with amazing results!
How was the podocarpus tree before the demo.
After the work was done.
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At the Christmas party on December I acquired the pot made by Sigrid. I was happy to have one more item from her. The pot has four Japanese ideograms. Since many people asked about the meaning of the ideograms, I did some research and found for two. Still working for other two.
The two I found are:
. Life
. Art, skill, plant
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Well this is what I did to keep my potentials in out of the cold it has been in the 30’s and 26. This is basiclly the first cold season they get and I did not want to take any chances in the future I will probably trust alittle more but for right now this is it.
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This was my first Christmas Party/Auction, Barbara and I had a very good time in the company of friends/fellow Bonsai enthusiast and good food. We acquired some nice material and good pots for the coming repotting season. I appologize if I did not get everybody. Please click on the link under the photo for more.
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For those of you that had photos taken of your trees at last nights meeting. You can view them here. I wasn’t able to upload all the photos due to space, but I tried to gett he best one of each of the trees.
See trees here
Here is a sneak peek
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November 14th,2009
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