AusBonsai

Bless you, Scott!

How wonderful to find a book on-line on exactly the subject I'm wanting to learn about, find the author lives locally, find a review of his work on-line from Australia, and have my question answered from New South Wales within half an hour of asking!

Thanks for your help.
Brett

Bessie wrote:I just purchased Peter Adams' book "Bonsai with Japanese maples." I have a small Japanese maple nursery ( we grow about 100 cultivars) in Washington State, and the book jacket says this is where Mr. Adams now resides. I would be very interested in contacting him to find out about offering a class here at Samara Nursery. Could you help me get in touch with him?
Thanks,
Brett Crumley

Hi Brett

Do you want me to ask him or Kate? She is setting next to me now?

Peter Adams Email address
akadam2740@aol.com

Kate just gave me here card for you?

Hi Ken - so sorry I did not read your reply til today, so I assume I have missed the opportunity of your kind offer. I will contact them here in Washington after they return from Australia. Sounds like you had a wonderful workshop.
Brett

No Worries Bessie
Send an email to Kate at the address above

they will be flying home tomorrow night

Ken

Hi all

Peter has finished my drawing and I received an email this week with an image of my tree attached and cannot wait to show it all to you

I can only hope over the next few years it will develop to be very much like this image that peter has created and I can do it justice

I like the pot as drawn and I will no doubt have to get one of you wonderful potters to create something in its likeness for me. I orginally was thinking along the lines of a round pot myself. but the strong heavy look I think balances the trunk nicely

Ken
ps Guess what picture is now my Desktop background

I was fortunate enough to be in the Monday group with Peter. My juniper arrived on its overland trip last weekend. Your photos and picture Ken certainly make me envious, and I look forward to an email from Peter and Kate ... and then collecting the picture from Clinton!

Looking good KC. Did he send the “how to” text and diagrams as well as a complete horticulture profile with it

Bretts wrote:Looking good KC. Did he send the “how to” text and diagrams as well as a complete horticulture profile with it

No not yet
Waiting for the orginal in the packet to arrive to clinton

I recieved an email from Peter today with the "Construction Diagrams" and instructions

Great Ken I wonder how long the originals will take to get here.
The notes state copyright I guess posting them here in their entirety would be a breech of that
I might pick a few intresting bits out of mine to post

Hi Ken, how is your Murraya paniculata going?...it has been a while and I am interested to see it now!
Cheers, Dario.

Dario wrote:
Hi Ken, how is your Murraya paniculata going?...it has been a while and I am interested to see it now!
Cheers, Dario.

I gave it a little Trim a few weeks ago and it is now shooting again and has flower buds

Will take some photos this afternoon.

As promised I took some update Photos today.
As can be seen it is slowly getting there, and has lots of flower buds all over it so will soon be in flower .

The right hand side is about the corrct profile, but the left still needs work. the lowest branch needs to extend fruther so extends out past the foliage above. I shortened the top branch on the left a little last year, but will probably take a littl more off both the top ones this year to help the outline take shape.

The foliage looks quite ratty at this time of year after winter. It looks quite moth eaten so will probably trial doing a defoliation on a section in a few weeks to see how that goes. I would like to investigate how to keep the foliage nice over winter, or work out when to give a hard cut back in spring so the foliage will look nice of the School Spring show.

I think maybe 2 years will be about ready to put in the show after the apex fills out

Ken

Thank you for the update Ken
It has such a lovely base and it is also filling out really well.
Has yours fruited before? or have you not let it get to that stage yet as you are still developing the foliage mass?
Cheers, Dario.

Thats coming along nicely, Man I love that trunk I suspect we will see it in flower Ken