Japanese Black Pine - new pot

[Matt S]

Yesterday I started repotting my pine trees and I was eager to get this one out of a plastic colander and into something more suitable. This was my first Japanese Black Pine and when I won it at a club raffle many years ago I was pretty excited even though I had no idea how to look after a pine. I remember it was dead straight with a whorl of branches at the top, and when Janet Sabey handed it to me she said "That would make a good dunny brush!". Unsurprisingly I didn't take any pictures of it but I wired up the trunk and put some bends in it, then forgot about it for a few years. Fast forward a bit (June 2014) and I took it to a Pine Course run by Kelvin Rodrigues at Bonsai Mujo (highly recommended) where I finally got my head around pines and we gave it a first style and a future. Crappy photo but this is what it looked like after the workshop.

JBP literati Jun 2014.JPG

After a few more years of decandling and ramification, it was starting to look better and I started thinking about a pot.

JBP literati Apr 20.JPG

As I often do, I went and visited Luke Parsons and he had a shallow meteorite pot that ticked the boxes. Pretty happy with this match.

JPB literati Aug20.JPG

There's still a lot of refinement to go, the balance of growth is getting better but the needles would look better if they were a bit shorter. All in good time.

Matt.

[Watto]

Excellent work on the dunny brush Matt, and the new shoes look the goods too. Very inspiring progression.

[bunce]

pretty nice stuff man


Matt