Bonsai fun

A picea i did a couple of years ago.


After



Patricks mugo pine before.
at the top the trunk was rather straight so we made some movement in it. and made the tree more compact.
The tree was first planted on a slab, and we potted it in a trainingspot



After in search for a new beautiful pot in a few years.still much work with maturing.


Before



After

Yamadori Sylvestris

Last year i collected some yamadori Sylvestris.
It was time to put this one in a better soilmix.

just want to show you how good these yamadori growed in just one year.
the entire pot of roots.
So i cleaned the old sand and repotted them in better soilmix.

As you can see a big stump even healed and got roots in just one year.

The tree got many new fine roots.

Put the tree in a trainingspot with spagnum mos on it.
Now the tree is in the greenhouse and the needles will be sprayed with fishemulsion.

Yama Goyomatsu

I want to show you a yamadori White pine of my collection that i styled in may 2008.
The Raw-material.



So I tilted the tree to the front for a better movement and the nebari looked not bad for a pine in this position, plus you can see the start of the lifevein.



After the position was right for me, we could search for the line between dead and life,cleaning the deadwood,remove rotten wood with a iron brush on a proxxon and do some work on the deadwood to make a better movement in the trunk.
And burned the parts i worked on, it would be a shame to burn what nature made.







After the cleaning , the wiring and the styling of the tree could begin.
Some big branches had to be bend and it was only possible with a guywire.
Some branches were so stiff i had to apply some raffia.




So the styling ould begin





The endresult.




In March 2010 i gave the tree a second styling and repotted it.

Juniperus Thurifera

This is the story of my Juniperus thurifera.

This is a yamadori juniperus thurifera that i bought at Pius Notter's place in a workshop in the spring of 2007.
It was a enjoyable weekend and in the end he styled the trees.




After a time a wasn't satisfied of the position of the tree,so i changed the angle of the tree in June 2007.




Beginning of April 2008 the tree was repotted and i let the tree grow for a year.



In 2009 i took this tree to discuss with Hotsumi.
First i removed the weak foliage and some branches of which one has become a jin.
Afterwards we slightly changed the position to the left and i could wire the tree.
After that i styled the tree with accompaniment of hotsumi.

For the future we thought of a round red brown pot in the direction of nanban.




In February 2010 i repotted the tree in another pot , in future it will be in a brown red oval pot i think.
Still much work on the foilage.




Last week i gave some attention to this tree.
Cleaned the deadwood and trunk.
Cleaned the foliage to let more light and air in it for new growth.
Wired and styled it.

Think that this tree did progress rather well.

Now the tree needs to grow and backbud and has to get a little fuller.
And in future a better pot.

Bending a Sylvestris

This is a Sylvestris i have for some years now.
Here was it after a workshop with Pius notter in 2008 i think.



I wasn't really happy with the result so last year in september.
So Mario Komsta and I decided to bend the straight trunk by hollowing it out, put some wire in the hollowed part and put some raffia on the trunk.






Attached a screw in the deadwood for a guywire.
And we bended the trunk.




In the beginning of september i removed the raffia and some wires.
The scar in the back caused by the bending heales perfectly.
And i bended the trunk some little more.







Here are some possible positions for the tree.
And Will Baddeley drawed his beautiful idea out for me.

Some Pinus sylvstris i collected

It's been a while since i posted.
So It was time to post again.
Here are a few of the sylvestris i have.