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How To Clean Up Tsukumo Cypress
A couple weeks back I did a post about cleaning up Junipers. In short, with a Juniper you cut any over-long shoots, pull off dangling shoots below the horizontal, and then pull off old shoots in the interior. But we shouldn’t pinch the living tips that remain. Tsukumo Cypress is a good comparison tree. It […]
How An Inverted Photo May Help Design Bonsai
If you like drawing, you may have tried to draw a family member from a photo, and then you may know how hard it is to find a likeness. You finish it, and the nose, eyes, and eyebrows are all in their proper places, but Aunt Jane it is not. We all have a basic […]
How To Clean Up Juniper Foliage
You may find the soft “clouds” of mature juniper foliage pleasant. Eventually this gets out of hand and we have a big thundercloud of foliage obliterating the structure of the tree. Which you may have spent a lot of effort wiring and setting. At this juncture some retooling is in order. This juniper has outgrown […]