Preview of a restyling of a Red Pine from 1965

Grant Bowie · Post by **Grant Bowie** » February 28th, 2009, 10:44 am

Here a some shots of a Red pine I bought last year. It dates from 1965 and was trained from 1969 onwards. It was in pretty dreadful condition by the time I got it.

Original front.JPG

View from right.JPG

View from back.JPG

view from left.JPG

View square on.JPG

Close up of base.JPG

View from above.JPG

Bretts · Post by **Bretts** » February 28th, 2009, 12:38 pm

Thanks Kindly for these articles Grant they are a great Benifit to us.

Scott Roxburgh · Post by **Scott Roxburgh** » February 28th, 2009, 1:19 pm

Hi Grant,

Good to see the initial shots before the styling and we look forward to see the results. Will you do any styling during this season or wait until spring?

Scott.

Grant Bowie · Post by **Grant Bowie** » February 28th, 2009, 1:31 pm

Hi Scott,

Styling has already been done and I am about to commence the next stage. All will be revealed very soon.

Grant

aaron_tas · Post by **aaron_tas** » March 13th, 2009, 4:18 pm

awesome tree grant,

can't wait to see what you do with it

John Henry · Post by **John Henry** » March 13th, 2009, 4:50 pm

HI Grant , You beat me to this one I first saw this tree at G World three years ago, it then ended up in Sydney it looks as if it is still in the same pot love to see it when you have worked on it.
Thanks John

Grant Bowie · Post by **Grant Bowie** » March 14th, 2009, 10:40 am

Hi John,

Yes I was amazed when I saw it in Sydney. I had seen it in Melborne and told the owners it was a great tree but needed two or three days worth of work. Their head bonsai person agreed and so instead they sold it?

Arthur R ( the man who sold it to them ) was prepared to work on it for free but they declined his offer.

Anyhow I will show you what I have done already in an article and thank god there are no Jin on this one, but maybe a bit of shari eventually though.

Grant

Asus101 · Post by **Asus101** » March 14th, 2009, 1:14 pm

Grant Bowie wrote:
Anyhow I will show you what I have done already in an article and thank god there are no Jin on this one, but maybe a bit of shari eventually though.

Grant

Looking through galleries, I havnt seen too many Red pines with jin, but a lot with shari.

Grant Bowie · Post by **Grant Bowie** » March 15th, 2009, 4:04 pm

The top side of the trunk very close to the base has shari but I am not sure if it was accidental or on purpose. You can't see it in the photos and it won't be a major part of the design. I have seen a few trees badly sunburnt and die on that part of the trunk so who knows.

Grant

Chris Johnston · Post by **Chris Johnston** » March 31st, 2009, 1:30 am

Grant,
I, too, have to say I can't wait to see what you have done with this tree. Don't keep us in suspense!

Chris

Grant Bowie · Post by **Grant Bowie** » March 31st, 2009, 2:03 pm

Chris Johnston wrote:Grant,
I, too, have to say I can't wait to see what you have done with this tree. Don't keep us in suspense!

Chris

Trunk at 90 degrees to camera.JPG

Part way through initial wiring.JPG

Here is the first bit of wiring and you can see the skeleton of the tree better.
I will have to see if I have more photos on the other computer.

Any how the tree was in much better condition by the time I got around to wiring it and I just proceeded to cut out the dead and weak branches and wire everything else right out to the tips, and then proceeded to place the branches.

The tree was repotted in spring and has grown very lushly since then (six months) without any trimming back or excessive candle reduction. I wanted to get vigor back into this old tree. Next year I will work on getting the needles and internodes short again but in a healthy way.

I will definately get it photographed by next weekend which I hope to have free.

Grant

Grant Bowie · Post by **Grant Bowie** » April 7th, 2009, 9:15 am

Ok, here are some more photos of the Red Pine.

Photo 1 shows the wiring mostly done and ready to be positioned.

RIMG2586.JPG Photo 2 shows the tree with positioning of branches

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Photo no 3 shows the tree repotted and growing healthilly, if somewhat overgrown now.

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The tree was in poor condition when I bought it and so I have considered the health of the tree above all in this exercise. The repot of the tree has dramatically improved the health of the tree and it will now be able to be cut back hard in late spring/early summer. This will force out new shorter needled growth and allow me to further micro position the branches.

Comments and correspondence welcome.

Asus101 · Post by **Asus101** » April 7th, 2009, 3:28 pm

One thing I noted that to me is interesting, you did not wire the tips upwards on all of the branches. It does not really have that layered feel to it, like many other European pines have.

Was there any reason for this?

anttal63 · Post by **anttal63** » April 7th, 2009, 4:59 pm

very nice styling grant, it was worth waiting for!

Asus101 · Post by **Asus101** » April 7th, 2009, 5:31 pm

Was there a reason to quote me?

AusBonsai

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