Sunday, December 10, 2017
Great Colorado Blue Spruce
Jennifer
Price, James Baley and WP work on this most exceptional collected
Colorado Blue Spruce (Picea pungens) at Hidden Gardens, south of
Chicago. Within the next few days all the small branches will get wired
and then the tree has to rest for at least one year. Eventually it
should go onto a long slab or a long flat pot. Congratulations go to
James Baley who owns this spruce.
Preparing American deciduous broadleaved material.
Jennifer, Ron, Jeff and Walter have fun working on these trees.
These are all deciduous broadleaved trees which were collected in America. They are mostly American hornbeams, Swamp Maple, oaks, linden, hydrangea and others. You can see what they look like after two vegetation periods and how they are cut back and brought to the next level. They may still look ugly to many but they will be quite impressive after another one or two vegetation periods.
here are almost 100 of these at Hidden Gardens, south of Chicago. They are all available. This is ground breaking. Only ten years ago this was the situation in Croatia. As most would know by now Croatia is one of the leading nations concerning broadleaved bonsai. One should consider that this is only the start t. There is much more to come. We will watch what will happen in America within the next ten years concerning this kind of material.
Many are not yet used to see big cuts on broadleaved trees. This is because in Japan only well prepared nursery trees are the norm for broadleaved bonsai. They do not collect such stuff. In order to not jeopardize their nursery industry they 'forbid' this kind of material. To see what to do with collected broadleaved material one cannot learn from Japan. The countries to look to are Indonesia, Taiwan, China, Croatia, Great Britain, Germany and others. Possibly in the future USA. We'll see. It just cannot be that the so small country Croatia has more good broadleaved trees than the rest together.
These are all deciduous broadleaved trees which were collected in America. They are mostly American hornbeams, Swamp Maple, oaks, linden, hydrangea and others. You can see what they look like after two vegetation periods and how they are cut back and brought to the next level. They may still look ugly to many but they will be quite impressive after another one or two vegetation periods.
here are almost 100 of these at Hidden Gardens, south of Chicago. They are all available. This is ground breaking. Only ten years ago this was the situation in Croatia. As most would know by now Croatia is one of the leading nations concerning broadleaved bonsai. One should consider that this is only the start t. There is much more to come. We will watch what will happen in America within the next ten years concerning this kind of material.
Many are not yet used to see big cuts on broadleaved trees. This is because in Japan only well prepared nursery trees are the norm for broadleaved bonsai. They do not collect such stuff. In order to not jeopardize their nursery industry they 'forbid' this kind of material. To see what to do with collected broadleaved material one cannot learn from Japan. The countries to look to are Indonesia, Taiwan, China, Croatia, Great Britain, Germany and others. Possibly in the future USA. We'll see. It just cannot be that the so small country Croatia has more good broadleaved trees than the rest together.
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