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 [...]
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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 | 12 Comments »
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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