Sunday, June 28, 2009

spruces after collecting

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A few weeks ago I showed how we collect spruce. Some may have wondered about the time of the year. Collecting at the beginning of June? Her ...

spruce # 52 part two

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First the nebari was dug up which was hidden under moss. Somebody has worked on the stumps many years ago. After more than fifteen years one...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

spruce # 52

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This is a European spruce, Picea abies. It was collected about twenty years ago. Someone did very little and crude work on the stubs and it ...
Friday, June 26, 2009

The spruce that Alex did

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This spruce was styled by Alex last fall. it had many quite healthy new shoots this spring. I did some slight editing. This is for sale or t...

development of spruce #43

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This one was roughly wired last spring. Today I wired all small branches and edited the whole thing. The virtuals make me wonder though. The...

new pot for spruce # 12

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First image 1994 then fall 2007 and then June 2009 This one really stats to look good now. I took it out of the Mica pot ans slipped it into...

Rocky Mountian Juniper # 4

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First image: October 2005 Then June 2009. It is interesting how quickly this one started to look fine. The pot by Derek Aspinall is a very g...

olive doing well

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My little wild olive is doing very well. It shoots many new branches all over the place. The color is bright green and the foliage is so sma...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

spruce #50, Bonsai Olympics

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As I was to style this spruce these days anyway I figured I could use it for the Bonsai Olympics which are held at the WBFF Convention in Pu...