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good find!

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from what i can see mate ( which isnt a great deal on this tiny screen ) it looks like juniperus conferta.
a close up of the foliage will help

it looks like some good stock, i am keen to see the first styling on this one

can you fill us in on some of the trees details ?

like height, trunk thickness, width etc. and maybe a plan of attack? i know its early and you will have a lot to think on with it but i think you have some great stock there. wish i could get some yamadori with potential or had some yamadori with potential for this comp

jamie

Jamie, you are a bullet from the gun. Good on you, someones always got to start first. Good starter to.

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yeah im with jamie dont think its a shore

I got this callistimon at Riverview Nursery in 2008 for $10. It was dry as a bone and ant ridden but had potential. It is about 60cm tall and 2.5 cm at the base. It has presented some styling problems... for me at any rate but things were going along pretty well. I was taking it out of the backyard to a workshop in September 2009 and forgot that it was a lot taller than the other plants I had carted out and the vine snagged the tree and wrenched it out of the pot... leaving all but 1 root behind. I put it in a training pot and it lost one small back branch but hardly seemed to realise that bad things had happened in the subterranean depths. Since then it has doubled in foliage, all bright and cheery green. I am not prepared to start wiring yet until I give the roots a bit more time to secure themselves tho it looks as tho I am being over cautious. I don't have a pic between the 2008 and 2009 when it was styled to look like a pagoda. I couldn't stand the twee look and cut it back - then the vine snagged it. I am not that fussed about starting styling because I don't want to disturb the roots until autumn as I will have to turn it hither and yon to get the best planting angle before I can start wiring branches. There's a lot of movement in the trunk that does not show in these photos.

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Juniperus conferta is Shore Juniper, but I don't think it is.....foliage is much too fine. Looks like sabina or a cultivar of chinensis, but not "Shimpaku' or 'Sargentii'.

Anyway theres's definitely a Literati in there somewhere Watto

Cheers
MM

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Looks like it may be sabina, which is sometimes identified by a slightly unpleasant smell when you crush some foliage between the palms of your hands.
Regards Gerard


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I was going to suggest cutting it above the first right branch but your mention of the shadow was a good point. Which rather means you are going to have fun finding the front as, by Murphy's Law, the best front to show the movement won't be the best front for the tree. But that's why we are up to our eyeballs in bonsai... to sort these little problems out. It will be interesting to see this tree's development.

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Thank god it's the photo and not my eyes!! Was worried there for a minute. It will make a nice literati. I think the lower branching is a bit sparse for an informal upright. But a nice tree to work on.

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Lookin' good, Aaron!

aaron_tas wrote:ok, now this is how i choose a front...

Good luck with that - looks to me like it might have 360 fronts...

Thanks, and good luck!

Fly.

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thanks fly

i think you might be right

but i do like the idea of a preferred viewing angle, esp. for an online comp

maybe that could be part of the comp... 360



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I like the tree Jarrod.I agrre with most that a literati would be great.

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hey all

this will be my second entry to the new stock division, it was over a lot of thought that i have decided to take this one on as an entry. i can see plenty of challenges in it, and to be honest that is what i want.

species- juniperus chinesis- sky rocket (i think that is the common name for it)
cost- $12

height- 700mm
trunk width-25mm

reasoning of choice for this one was the mass of branch selection. it will be from what i picture a lone tree on the edge of a cliff tall tree image, which i think will be quite aclomplishable.
traditional bunjingi show twists and turns, kinks and tweaks in the trunks, i have styled one like this. and when bunjingi is spoken about this is a typical image people think of.
so this is why i have decided on the opposite.
bunjingi is not only twisted and turned etc. it can also be of a lone tall tree image which we often forget about.
why is that tree on the cliffside all by itself with only a little foliage on the top??? because it was the one that stood the test of time and survived while the rest over crowded or blew over etc. so this is the story that i will be portraying.
simple yes, but simplicity can be a key to the dynamics and drama of a bunjingi tree, can it not? i think so.

so far is my stock picture. sketches of my plans to follow

jamie

Watto wrote:Jamie - I will be very interested in the "finished" product form this. Good luck but I think this one is a tough assignment.

i think your right there mate, i have images in my head but cant sketch what i am seeing...

thats ok, i think i have described what i can see in this tree, now i just have to show it..
and i think i have a slab of slate that will make a perfect finish for it to...

jamie

i am finding some sweet inspiration of google images, will get back to you with my sketches of plans some time tonight

jamie