I would be very interested to see the work you are doing with this technique of removing the majority of the bark to find the live veins, thus enhancing the trees appearance etc.
Cheers, Dario.
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Hi Craig
I would be very interested to see the work you are doing with this technique of removing the majority of the bark to find the live veins, thus enhancing the trees appearance etc.
Cheers, Dario.
I would be very interested to see the work you are doing with this technique of removing the majority of the bark to find the live veins, thus enhancing the trees appearance etc.
Cheers, Dario.
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Hi Craig,
Mate I would be interested to see what you do so please post some pics. Interesting point about older mels, I havent noticed so I will have to keep an eye out now.
Ps it looks like a long cascading branch is being trained there???????
Squizz
Mate I would be interested to see what you do so please post some pics. Interesting point about older mels, I havent noticed so I will have to keep an eye out now.
Ps it looks like a long cascading branch is being trained there???????
Squizz
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Thanks Guys, here a little slice of the work i'm up to, more to come as i'm not even half way done yet.
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here's a vert.
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Hi Craig,
Interesting experiment. You seem to get some great colour variation in the trunk this way as well.
Question. That shoot that you found under the bark. do you think in the wild that would normally run up the tree and pop out much further up th trunk at a later date thus becoming one of those buldged strangling root type components of a paper bark trunk. Does that make sense. It eventually looks like the tree has sent ariel roots down the side of the trunk but in fack its a shoot like this that runs up the trunk under the layers of bark and many years later becomes exposed with the outer layers of bark shedding. Just a theory. What do you think?
Squizz
Interesting experiment. You seem to get some great colour variation in the trunk this way as well.
Question. That shoot that you found under the bark. do you think in the wild that would normally run up the tree and pop out much further up th trunk at a later date thus becoming one of those buldged strangling root type components of a paper bark trunk. Does that make sense. It eventually looks like the tree has sent ariel roots down the side of the trunk but in fack its a shoot like this that runs up the trunk under the layers of bark and many years later becomes exposed with the outer layers of bark shedding. Just a theory. What do you think?
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squizzy wrote:Hi Craig,
Interesting experiment. You seem to get some great colour variation in the trunk this way as well.
Question. That shoot that you found under the bark. do you think in the wild that would normally run up the tree and pop out much further up th trunk at a later date thus becoming one of those buldged strangling root type components of a paper bark trunk. Does that make sense. It eventually looks like the tree has sent ariel roots down the side of the trunk but in fack its a shoot like this that runs up the trunk under the layers of bark and many years later becomes exposed with the outer layers of bark shedding. Just a theory. What do you think?
Squizz
Those shoots do /can run up under the bark for a distance before or if ever popping through the bark. From observation it's in areas where the bark is not broken/thin/cracked, they just can not push/pierce through the aged thick flat sheets of paper.
Do you mean anything like this mate ? thanks for the interest
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Yeah that's what I am talking about. Do you think that's probably how they form?
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