brook-alder update

And this is, how it went on. The alder accommpained with some fungus.
I think a Coprinus-anything ... no clue ...
Designing will follow end of month ...

Fungi_time

This year the alder-pot was populated by a fungus.
I am not sure about the species of the fungus, maybe a member of the COPRINELLUS-family ... ?
This sort of mashrooms are decomposing dead wood (lying in the humus).
Therefore I am not worried, that the fungus will have a negative effect on the living wood-tissue of the alder itself.
Well, I hope so anyway ...

project_juniper

Last weekend my bonsai-friend Andrew gave me the honor to be my guest.
After some talk shop about my modest collection, we decided to do some work-practise.
We choose a Juniperus Chinensis blauwii to work on.
We cleared out the branch-structure for later designing in autumn.
I made a (very lousy)  picture with my smart-phone to make some virtuals as a pattern
for the designing-session.

The picture of the raw-material:



Andrew's draft in a kind of naturalistic style :

 

My draft :

Prunus Mahaleb

This spring my dear friend Andrew gave me the chance to dig this wonderful tree.

The pictures shows the tree four weeks after it was yamadorised in April 2016.
Right now it is a trunk with a green "leaf-ball" on its base.
So I decided to show this early picture so one can see the movement of the trunk better.
I am really looking foreward to work with this season`s growth in late autumn ...



































Nebari 42 cm

 

Acer Campestre

For about five years I passed this tree on my job-tours
untill I got permission to dig it.
The size of a Fieldmaple for bonsai should be laid out in a relativ large scale (imho).
So will be the design of this tree.
It has a more masculine appearance with its rather coarse and stiffy ramification.
But I really like the powerful and charcterful trunks of Acer P..
The taper of the trunk will the top-feature of this tree.

Nebari 37 cm

Prunus Serotina

I collected this species because of the nice blossom-risps in spring.
Hopefully I will be able to show you some of these next year.
Prunus Serotina is a so called neophyt to a german (european) habitat.
The origin of this species is North America.
Because of its vigour and the strong urge to gain for light,
P. Serotina had managed to suppress P. Padus, the original inhabitant.

The tree is almost as high as wide as deep.
Well, a lot of carvingwork to do at the end of the season ...

Nebari 27cm

Some new yamadories

In late spring this year, I did some yamadorising.
A Prunus Serotina, a big Fieldmaple and a mighty Wild-Cherry
had been on my shortlist.
I always wanted to have this species in my developing-programm.
Here are a few glimpses of the trees.
I will introduce them more detailed later on ...