The Joe Micallef Cedar Collection

[The Hacker]

Hi All

Here are a few photo's of some of The Great Joe Micallef's Cedar Collection, these photo's are from the late 80's early 90's hope you enjoy them

Regard's The Hacker

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[N Mac]

Hi hacker thanks for sharing.the cascade style is amazing.

[Pup]

Very nice to see trees from this early era. I would say its a pity we did not know more about good photography of our trees then.

However it is still good to see them.

Thank you for showing them. Hacker.

Cheers Pup

[Craig]

Nice pics, i like the last with joe and the collection , cheers Mr Hacker

[Tony Bebb]

Gotta love that.

Nice Hacker

[The Hacker]

Hi Again Here's a Few more of Joe's Ceder's Enjoy

Regard's The Hacker

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Hope you like as there's more to come

[emi93m]

All I can say is WOW !!! Thankyou for posting

Regards Mick

[Brian]

Good find Hacker. I remember when we visited Joe, it was the aabc convention in Canberra around 1989- 90. Joe was a pioneer with his bending and trunk cutting techniques. This was the first time I had seen him slice through 80 % of a large trunk with a Japanese razor saw and remove a big wedge of timber then press it together with a copper wire tourniquet.

Its a bit hard for me to put into words the way he bent large trunks like that without posting step by step photos. . I hope you understand the technique that I'm talking about.

Lovely trees and thans for posting, I particularly like the semi cascade on the bench
the bending process sounds like what I did to and Azalea I needed to bend a few years ago. viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2484&p

Ken

[The Hacker]

Hi All

Here is a group of Ceder's that Joe did sorry about the poor photo's, would love to see photo's of this group now if anyone has any or photo's of any of these tree's

Regard's The Hacker

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[alpineart]

Hi Mr Hacker , keep them coming . I love the work Joe did , hope to find a few of these still floating around and can be updated by the new owners .

Cheers Alpine

[hard1all]

Thanks Mr Hacker for posting these historic photos.
It allowed me to establish, with reasonable confidence, that an Atlantic Cedar Cascade I have is clearly two of Joe's trees now planted as one.
(The bend in that trunk is unique!)
Needless to say, with that provenance, this trees worth is now greater if not its value!
It shall be re-wired, styled, re-potted in August and I will post an updated photo then.

[The Hacker]

Hi Hard1all

Thank's for posting your photo that tree look's very very nice, But please stay turned as I have about 15 more photo's of The Great Joe Micallef's tree's to go on this post, he was a very Unique Bonsai Master with great skill & some very advaced techniques way back when we were only just young boy's

Regard's The Hacker

[The Hacker]

Well As I Said Here are some more of Joe's Ceder's

Regard's The Hacker

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The Same Tree a Few Year's Apart

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[Brian]

Nice photo's Chris. good to old Geoff Ackland , he's been gone for over 10 years now.

[alpineart]

Hi The Hacker , there is some very impressive Cedars there . These would have been a real eye opener way back then . I see Merv Hughes must have retired .

Cheers Alpine