This is an intriguing tree. I could look at it all day. It was styled last year with the other side as the front. Then the lower branch died, which is a hard thing to prevent in a juniper if it’s got that idea going. About that time I was strongly considering this new front, [...]
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Revisiting a Unique Rocky Mountain Juniper—Seasonal work
Posted in Development, tagged Bonsai, changing front, juniper bonsai, Rocky Mountain juniper bonsai, Seasonals, styling bonsai, yamadori on July 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Developing an Unpromising Sierra Juniper Bunjin–student work from Seasonal
Posted in Before and after, Development, tagged juniper bonsai, Seasonal, Sierra juniper bonsai, styling bonsai, yamadori on July 29, 2011 | 6 Comments »
This is a product of my Seasonal sessions. A few years ago I bought this weedy looking Sierra juniper, removed the field soil and repotted it into a pumice/akadama mix in a plastic nursery pot with help from Seasonal students in 2009, and styled it with a Seasonal group in 2010. It really did look [...]
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 »
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 [...]
Another Yamadori Rocky Mtn. Juniper–
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bonsai styling, juniper bonsai, Oregon Bonsai, Randy Knight, Rocky Mountain Juniper, shari, yamadori on February 11, 2011 | 34 Comments »
This juniper has been growing in my backyard for a year. It’s a client tree, another of the great native yamadori that was collected by Randy Knight of Oregon Bonsai. Junipers don’t like to be repotted very early, they do better when repotted in late spring when it’s warmer. So this tree, which is in [...]
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.
Rocky Mountain Juniper potting
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Rocky Mountain Juniper, yamadori, Yamaki on March 19, 2010 | 8 Comments »
This is what I call, only partly tongue in cheek, the ‘Lazarus’ tree as it had only large roots and no feeder roots when put in a box, and after 8 months in my backyard under a mist system, sprang back into life again. Every month I would dig a bit through the pumice and [...]
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