Kevin wrote:Hello Dave,
Brilliant - the trees, the forest landscape set-out, the pots, the backdrop, the.... just Great Work.
"3 plants, 3 years, working away quietly in the background".
How many more do you have in your collection?
Thanks for sharing and inspiring - really 3 years.
Kevin
Thanks Kevin, appreciate those kinds words. Yes I've been working away quietly, but I have indeed been busy
I can't take all the credit for the Juniper forest thought, as I said, it was originally created by Leong from Bonsai South, although I have made some significant changes to it over the years, mainly in relation to lightening the composition by branch removal, improving the flow and movement.. . Here are a few progress shot of it over the past few years.
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This was back in June 2014
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This was May this year, right before it was worked on
How many trees do I have in my collection? Well it would have to be close to 100 at the moment, all varying species, from Junipers to elms, plums, JBPs, Azaleas and most recently, a nice batch of native collected paperbark tea trees. Here are a few pics of a few trees that will be coming in the neat future
The below Sabina (i think) Juniper was purchased from KCPoole (Ken I think his name is from memory???
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)I believe it was that was about to be bulldozed in a local netball court before it was recused. These are amateur progress shots that I ordinarily keep for myself and not for public display..but since you asked, I'll share. I still think the pot I had made is a little large so I might be getting another one made a touch smaller in the future. The last pic was taken just after I slip potted it this year at the beginning of summer so I'll re-post a photo after I work on it again in about a month.
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Post First Styling
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Post Slip Potting December 2015
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Ohh, I found a progress photo of the above twin trunk Swampy, post first styling and initial carving (excuse the horrendous wiring
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Below are a few of the paperbark tea trees that will have their first styling done probably a little later this year. Vigor of foliage and root growth in under 5 months is quite astonishing, very, very fast growing species.
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