This little juniper was imported some years back through Brussel’s Bonsai. Itoigawa can grow for years with juvenile foliage before gaining the metabolic confidence to grow scale foliage again. Don’t cut too hard on them! And always leave lots of tip growth. This client’s tree was fun to work on. Hope you enjoy the photos—
Archive for the ‘Before and after’ Category
Shohin Itoigawa juniper—
Posted in Before and after, tagged Brussel's Bonsai, Crataegus Bonsai, Itoigawa, Itoigawa bonsai, Itoigawa juniper, juniper bonsai, styling bonsai, styling juniper on June 20, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Youtube Styling of a Large Juniper
Posted in Before and after, Uncategorized, tagged bonsai video, bonsai wiring, florida bonsai, juniper bonsai, Juniper styling, juniper wiring, miami tropical on May 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Although it was a few years back (2007), I just uploaded this video to Youtube. In a post long ago I shared before and after photos of a juniper I wired at Miami Tropical, and here’s the video of it… hope you like Stan Getz. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSh_g-njlwU
Black Pine Grafted Ponderosa: STYLED
Posted in Before and after, Development, tagged Andy Smith, black pine, Black pine bonsai, Grafting, Ponderosa, Restyling, styling, yamadori on April 25, 2011 | 17 Comments »
This small pine goes way back to when I was a potter, trying to sell them at my first convention in the mid 90′s in Harrisburg, PA. I met Andy Smith there, and we traded a pot for a tree. He collected the yamadori pine in South Dakota. For years I grew it as a [...]
Yamadori Shimpaku juniper styling
Posted in Before and after, tagged bonsai styling, Chinese juniper, juniper bonsai, Juniperus chinensis, shari, yamadori on October 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Some years ago this juniper was imported from Japan. It was weak for quite some time and only this year displayed enough energy to make styling an option. The long shoots were cut back once already this year, so I could actually have styled it a bit earlier.
Engelmann spruce styling–
Posted in Before and after, tagged Engelmann spruce, ezo spruce, spruce bonsai on October 2, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I really like Engelmann spruce. It reminds me so much of Ezo spruce, which my teacher had a love affair with in Japan and so they were quite a few of them in his collection. I think spruce have a very quiet feeling, like a snowfall. It’s tempting to look for big gnarly trunks with [...]
Hemlock group
Posted in Before and after, Uncategorized, tagged clump, group, Hemlock, Mountain hemlock, muck on March 22, 2010 | 8 Comments »
This Mountain hemlock has been one of those intriguing trees that is so big at 65″ it is almost more of a conversation piece than a bonsai. And yet thinner trunked trees can be considerably taller and still ‘work’ as bonsai. I collected it about 1 1/2 years ago, and put it in pumice in [...]
Ezo spruce, again
Posted in Before and after, tagged ezo spruce, moss, spruce on February 25, 2009 | 19 Comments »
As promised, here’s the final ‘potted’ photo of that Ezo spruce clump styling in yesterday’s post— Two things I’ll do in the future is move the left trunk further to the right as it’s a bit too balanced where it is. Also I’ll add a clump of broadleaf evergreen, probably a small-leafed azalea, to the [...]
Ezo spruce clump
Posted in Before and after on February 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This Ezo spruce is a prime example of one ‘gone to seed:’ A tree long neglected, grown more as an ordinary plant in a pot than as a bonsai. Before: And after: You might notice I did not cut the branches off cleanly, leaving quite a few large, ugly stubs. What I’ve [...]
Pacific Rim juniper
Posted in Before and after, Uncategorized on January 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A rangy juniper reworked in a half-day refinement session at the Weyerhaeuser collection in Federal Way, Washington. This 40″ tree is a collected Sierra juniper grafted with shimpaku:
Two Old Pines
Posted in Before and after, tagged black pine on January 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
These two imported black pines have been through a number of hands in the United States, most notably Boon Manakitivipart, who established the basic branch framework of them. A client owns them. The refinement work shown here is typical of that applied to very established conifers. Both trees’ key branches needed shortening, having slowly grown [...]
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