I've been lucky to secure a workshop place at Bonsai week this Saturday.
Tough to decide which tree(s) to take.
This year we have a full day workshop - The morning session (9am till 12) with Heike van Gunst, then an afternoon session (1pm till 4) with Sandra Grlica. We are allowed to take extra trees in the event a single smaller tree doesn't hold enough for either of the sessions. I normally take a couple of options to allow the tutor to pick whichever they feel more comfortable with or that might give the best outcomes.
I've narrowed my choices down to the following trees, all shimpaku junipers that I've been developing for around 7-9 years. All wired when young and twisted and bent dramatically after Jow's encouragement to grow better juniper stock to work with viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1307&hilit=juniper+shibui.;
I've spotted several possible trees in most of these but it will be interesting to see what our visiting experts see.
Looking forward to seeing some Ausbonsai members at the workshop and a couple of other activities on Friday
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I understand your dilemma Neil, attending the same workshops and bringing a nice little dwarf sylvestris purchased from Treeman a couple of years ago, and 3 black pines all small trees. Looking foreward to seeing you on the weekend.
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Nice material Neil lots of options . I have 3 shimpakus in the ground for almost a decade now . I need to cut them back next spring and proberly lIft in 2020. Yours have branches easily manlipulated so you have been pruning well.
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See you Friday and/or Saturday Gerard
J. chinensis usually grows with long, straight shoots so the earlier ones I grew were quite difficult to develop good bonsai from. These have been constantly wired and bent and selectively pruned to give thicker trunks with taper and useful branches where I thought I would need them. You will have noted the sacrifice branches on these to selectively thicken parts of the trunk. Some of the sacrifice branches will also double as jin in the final design I hope. In some cases branches have been left to grow specifically to supply a jin. More recently I've also been wiring those potential jins to get some more interesting dead wood options.Nice material Neil lots of options . I have 3 shimpakus in the ground for almost a decade now . I need to cut them back next spring and proberly lIft in 2020. Yours have branches easily manlipulated so you have been pruning well.
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I like the trunkline of the pot marked 5A Neil, but all look good.
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