The day after my Seasonal students left I was so intrigued by what we had done with the Mountain Hemlock from last week’s post that I put this Engelmann spruce on a plastic slab as well. While the first day with five students it had taken all day to figure out, I did this one [...]
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Spruce On Nylon Board
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged black pine, Companion plant, Engelmann spruce, narcissus, nylon board, vine maple on April 7, 2012 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
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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