AusBonsai

Its the only one I have so I don't know yet, but I can tell you in about four or five years time. I do plan to carve the cuts to tidy them up a bit in the future, but right now I am just hoping for plenty of new shoots from the trunk, fingers crossed?

Nice reduction to something interesting. Please keep posting. I'm assuming you have something like that reserved for me on Sunday?

Gavin

There is probably a 1000 better than that, but they aren't red flowering!

Nice trunk line and lovely flowers Watto!
Too late for this one, but if you haven't read this yet I thought you may find it interesting.
Cheers, Dario.
http://ofbonsai.org/techniques/styles-a ... -technique

Paulneill wrote:I read that hawthorn don't callous much does this one heal over?

It is true that they dont heal well but they darken a lot and blend in despite their lack of healing over. Gonna be an awesome tree Watto.

Dario wrote:Nice trunk line and lovely flowers Watto!
Too late for this one, but if you haven't read this yet I thought you may find it interesting.
Cheers, Dario.
http://ofbonsai.org/techniques/styles-a ... -technique

I reckon this probably deserves a thread of it's own..
Quite clever indeed.

Dario - there is a bit of trunk still on one cut so I will give this a try. Thanks for the info, that sort of experiment is worth having a go at.
I might do it tomorrow and post the pictures.

Good luck, look forward to the pics Watto.
Cheers, Dario.

OK so I had a go at the folding the bark over technique, and the photos are following. A few things I did learn - the rough old bark doesn't bend, you need young bark; it will take a few goes to master the technique, especially getting the correct thickness of the small sliver of wood near the cambium.
I used the cut paste in the tube as that is all I had, but the one in the screw top jar would be much better.
Anyway, I will tell you how successful it was in two years time.