Webos wrote:Great stuff, really good example of why we should all be taking regular photos of our trees. A very cool tree.
I like the final result apart from the very top branch, I think that's the only thing detracting from the flow of the branches. Of course, a photo never does a bonsai justice so I'm sure that in the flesh, it's even more powerful and complex than what we see here.
The top branch has had a few problems so I took it as far as I could today. I would like to remove some of its verticality but will have to wait a season to do so as it is split/cracked in a few spots.
Very good progression.
Sorry, what do you mean by this:
I should have used the drill out technique on this one and will do so in future. On the smaller right hand branch I used the trunk splitter and you can hardly see a mark.
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Great transformation Grant, the tree has some beautiful movement. I agree the top branch seems to go against the flow and is distracting to the eye have you thought about wiring it a little more horizontal and jin or even removal?
Neli wrote:Very good progression.
Sorry, what do you mean by this:
I should have used the drill out technique on this one and will do so in future. On the smaller right hand branch I used the trunk splitter and you can hardly see a mark.
Thanks Grant,
I am going to try it...I am so scared to bend my junipers...so I started buying young ones and bending them so they can grow in the ground like that.
I also welded my self some of those gadgets for bending...I can not buy them here, but they can not bent as much as this method.
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I ask lots of questions that sound like suggestions. Please remember I am a inquisitive newbie trying to figure out why You made a particular decision, in order to learn.
I started a blog:http://nelibonsai.wordpress.com/2013/07 ... a-nursery/
I've found most Junipers up to about thumb thickness will accept gentle bends quite easily. For bends beyond about 45 degrees, it'd be case by case. last weekend Ryan Neil showed us that with brittle species, he tests the bendiness of branches that he's cut off so that he has a guage by which he can bend branches still attached.
It seems to work against the flow a little.
