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Hi Andrew, a very rough and basic outline... Great material!
Cheers, Dario.
Edit...could also move the foliage outlines slightly further over to the right. I think with this design idea it is important to keep the foliage in close to the trunk to highlight the deadwood areas.

Dario wrote:Hi Andrew, a very rough and basic outline...

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Great material!
Cheers, Dario.
Edit...could also move the foliage outlines slightly further over to the right. I think with this design idea it is important to keep the foliage in close to the trunk to highlight the deadwood areas.

Interesting - thanks Dario. Let's see what others come up with.

Cheers,

Andrew

Darios virt is on the money !
I like it, highlighting the dead wood features in the lower trunk is important I agree and done well but simply in this design.

Good piece of material mate!
Looking forward to the work you do

Hugh

hugh grant wrote:Darios virt is on the money !
I like it, highlighting the dead wood features in the lower trunk is important I agree and done well but simply in this design.

Good piece of material mate!
Looking forward to the work you do

Hugh

Thanks Hugh . . . we'll have to wait a year or two and see how it grows.

So boys and girls . . . . . . that brings us to tree #2. Last night I managed to brave the cold (it wasn't that bad) and sifted two bags of milled pine bark to one 50 lt bag of 3 to 8mm Leca, and a few hands full of palm peat, mix it all together and as they say, the rest is history. Here's the crime scene with my big olive in the background . . . . .
And the potted up tree happily watered into its new home . . . . .
Valuable lesson I've learnt from these big trees is to always plant them with their backs to the sun. That way they sprout where you want branches! Not so easy to move around!

Cheers,

Andrew

oh me oh my!! this was my face when I opened your post
Andrew, you should write for a comedy group!! Really incredible to see the hard work you've done. I felt sorry for the chain saw.
Your last post with the stump already set in the growing pot just blows my mind.... .
thanks for taking the time to post this, and i really look forward to seeing them with foliage. Very awesome!!
woody

Right Andrew... I now understand why my phone rang at 8.30 last night. Sorry I couldn't get there - how's the hernia?

Good god, that is a ripper blank canvas. To provide a simile to painting - it's like a canvas weaved of the finest and purest silk. I almost wouldn't paint on it for it's beauty and for fear of ruining it!
BUT.. this is bonsai not painting. So I cannot wait to see it develop! WOOOP havn't been this excited in a long time!

MoGanic wrote:Good god, that is a ripper blank canvas. To provide a simile to painting - it's like a canvas weaved of the finest and purest silk. I almost wouldn't paint on it for it's beauty and for fear of ruining it!
BUT.. this is bonsai not painting. So I cannot wait to see it develop! WOOOP havn't been this excited in a long time!

Thanks mate - wow - what a fantastic compliment. I'll try to keep it alive as step one, and let's see where it goes from there! Fingers crossed!

woody wrote:oh me oh my!! this was my face when I opened your post
Andrew, you should write for a comedy group!! Really incredible to see the hard work you've done. I felt sorry for the chain saw.
Your last post with the stump already set in the growing pot just blows my mind.... .
thanks for taking the time to post this, and i really look forward to seeing them with foliage. Very awesome!!
woody

LOL -Thanks Woody. This would probably be a good place to thank my long-suffering dig mates, Brett, Ray, Freddie and specifically for these two, Steven. I think I'm going to have to come up with a name for my chainsaw. It will of course need to be one of the two extremes..... So either something like The Dominator, or somethin on the opposite end of the scale like Daisy or maybe I'll just go with Chuck Norris!

What a lovely pair of trees Andrew!
Pity you are in South Africa and slightly;y more than a weekend trip as I would love to see these in person!

They will be exciting to watch these develop over the next few years.

Ken

Andrew

Your chainsaw was treated very well compared to what it was put through yesterday. If the members here could see what it did yesterday you would have seen all 5000 looking like this...
I kid you not he sawed through two massive trees that were at least double the thickness of the saws blade length... And it is only a Ryobi meant for round the house stuff...

At least yesterday i had you digging a tree for me.. Thanks

Well lets see them up here boys.

Brett Simon wrote:Andrew

Your chainsaw was treated very well compared to what it was put through yesterday. If the members here could see what it did yesterday you would have seen all 5000 looking like this...
I kid you not he sawed through two massive trees that were at least double the thickness of the saws blade length... And it is only a Ryobi meant for round the house stuff...

At least yesterday i had you digging a tree for me.. Thanks

LOL - It's got so bad I actually asked about tungsten carbide tipped chains today! The price had me . I guess when I shopped for a chainsaw I was being tight. Stihl's are just SO expensive, so I got the baby Ryobi. I was wondering how good a buy it was when I saw that pretty much every tool in the returns department at the store was made by Ryobi, but so far, with a stripped bar mount, a punctured petrol tank when I rethreaded and inserted a helicoil, and some use that I should not really expose a chainsaw too, let alone a cheap one, and I'm amazed that it still soldiers on!

"Justin Hervey" wrote: Well lets see them up here boys.

I'll get pics of my tree and chainsaw up here tonight!

While you boys were comparing chainsaw sizes I was digging more manageable stuff - mine are, comparatively speaking, accent plants.
I'll get some pictures up by the end of the week.