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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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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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Two Old Pines

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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