Showing my Shohin

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Trees!! What trees???

I just saw lots of eye-candy in the pots

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Wow! I love what you did with the Honeysuckle. (Why didn't I think of that?)
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This thread needs an epicness warning.
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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This thread needs an epicness warning
agree!!!

I'm inspired every time I look through the images...
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Thanks all. Here are some that I've worked on this week.
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I love the virtual for the serissa.
Beautiful Steven!
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Rory wrote:I love the virtual for the serissa.
Beautiful Steven!
I'm not so convinced on the virtual - looks a bit thin, unnatural and too "pom pom" like for mine.
It removes the feeling I get of the foliage struggling to to grow back towards the prevailing winds.
....Proof is here that Steven know's what he's doing though!

Love the Jasmine Stephen!
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The Serrisa Steve.

Here's how I see this one. Firstly I really like it. How about bringing the trunk in closer to the stone, bending the crown to the right so it sits more vertically and closer to the upper trunk and removing the lower leaves to show the branch structure.
Nice little jasmine too!
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Beautiful Jasmine indeed Steve !!!!
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Thanks for your thoughts and the virt Mike. I agree that the trunk should be compressed and I'll work on that soon.

Last night I layered the following Celtis as the base was ugly, it was a little tall and I wanted to change the angle. Following are the steps I took:
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The Celtis hasn't skipped a beat and is pushing lots of healthy new growth. I'm expecting to be able to remove the base at the end of this year.

Last night I layered the base off Fortunella hindsii (Dwarf Cumquat) as the lower trunk was very straight which did not match the top of the tree.
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I took the opportunity to change the angle too so it will be a semi-cascade.
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I also trimmed and wired a couple of branches on this Ash that I purchased from Grant Bowie at the last AusBonsai Market.
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Both these tree's reinforce the importance of putting movement into the lower section of trunks on all tree's when they are young.

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Wow this thread is very inspirational!!
Some amazing trees. Really thought-provoking... i'll be trying my hand at a few minis/shohin!!
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I had a shohin and a mame display at The School of Bonsai 35th annual exhibition on the weekend and following are a couple of the tree's I had displayed. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of them on display.
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FYI, the scissors I use in these pictures are 200mm tall.

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Loving that little trident Steven fantastic trunk and the pot :D
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Ditto what Matthew said, that trident a treat.
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