Juniper from the garden
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Juniper from the garden
This Juniper was dug from my front yard shortly after we moved in 2003. It had been in the black pot since then.
I looked at it when I was booked in for a Peter Adams workshop but selected the spruce instead.
This year I have been encouraged by my wife to reduce the amount of stock trees. My idea of reducing is different to my wife’s.
This is one that has made it to a Bonsai pot ( not a stock plant anymore). There are still many years of styling ahead.
Regards,
Peter
I looked at it when I was booked in for a Peter Adams workshop but selected the spruce instead.
This year I have been encouraged by my wife to reduce the amount of stock trees. My idea of reducing is different to my wife’s.
This is one that has made it to a Bonsai pot ( not a stock plant anymore). There are still many years of styling ahead.
Regards,
Peter
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Re: Juniper from the garden
Lovely tree peter will not be very long till it is a stunner
Is quite similar to the junipers I collected earlier this year. But I have about 10 or so do
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Is quite similar to the junipers I collected earlier this year. But I have about 10 or so do
ken
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Re: Juniper from the garden
As far as reducing stock trees goes..
Job done!
That has definitely been reduced and for the better!
Great work.
Job done!
That has definitely been reduced and for the better!
Great work.
One of the fabulous things about growing bonsai is as you get old and decrepit your trees get old and beautiful
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Re: Juniper from the garden
Very graceful and balanced - nicely judged. I don't usually like trees that go in two directions at once, but the trunk is so strong, it seems to me that it can balance the foliage well. Well imagined.
(Does that leave more space to buy something else?)
Gavin
(Does that leave more space to buy something else?)
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Re: Juniper from the garden
Hi Peter,
Very nice job, it was a tree worth keeping thats for sure, just wondering if you plan to thin the Jins further?
Very nice job, it was a tree worth keeping thats for sure, just wondering if you plan to thin the Jins further?
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Re: Juniper from the garden
Yes Nathan. This is still in the rough stage and I will be looking at further work on the carving at a later time.Nathan wrote:just wondering if you plan to thin the Jins further?
Regards
Peter
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Re: Juniper from the garden
Update,
Still more carving and growing to be done.
Regards,
Peter
Still more carving and growing to be done.
Regards,
Peter
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Re: Juniper from the garden
Gotta love Junipers. A very nice garden specimen to begin its coming along well!
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Re: Juniper from the garden
Looking great Peter!
Would you consider continuing the deadwood up the trunk to the dead branch in the apex?
Regards,
Steven
Would you consider continuing the deadwood up the trunk to the dead branch in the apex?
Regards,
Steven
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Re: Juniper from the garden
Looking pretty good. Would you consider a front branch comming out somwhere below the apex?
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Re: Juniper from the garden
I like where this guy is going. Got photos from different angles? And are there some nice roots hiding under the soil?
The texture of the jin and Shari is amazing! Did you carve it or use the dremmel?
The texture of the jin and Shari is amazing! Did you carve it or use the dremmel?
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Re: Juniper from the garden
Hi Steven,Steven wrote:Looking great Peter!
Would you consider continuing the deadwood up the trunk to the dead branch in the apex?
Regards,
Steven
Yes I still have to do a lot of work on the wood a have looked at the continuation to that dead branch.also the apex foliage needs to grow out more.
Need to grow the apex more to fill that area.treeman wrote:Looking pretty good. Would you consider a front branch comming out somwhere below the apex?
The roots are there ,hard to see against the soil. I use a Flexi shaft carving tool plus a high speed router.Jarad wrote:I like where this guy is going. Got photos from different angles? And are there some nice roots hiding under the soil?
The texture of the jin and Shari is amazing! Did you carve it or use the dremmel?
Regards
Peter
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Re: Juniper from the garden
Hi Peter,
Looking very good, worth the wait and will develop well in the near future.
Did you have an oops moment when reducing the jin, as it appears that you hit the trunk just above it
Regards,
Black Knight
Looking very good, worth the wait and will develop well in the near future.
Did you have an oops moment when reducing the jin, as it appears that you hit the trunk just above it
Regards,
Black Knight
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Re: Juniper from the garden
Update after some work this week.
Kind Regards,
Peter
Kind Regards,
Peter
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