update_kifu_yew

Still under structural construction. Two branches less, two tiny jins more ...

Just for the record ...

juniperus_procumbens_raw

'Found this tree highly neglected in a nursery.

The tree started to build compost-pockets within the branch-bases.

Such was the sinking in oblivion ..Undescribably ...

Nonetheless, the Junipers comes with some bonsai-features already.

'Like the bark and the green parts close to the trunc ...

I consider that good raw-material ...

bye_bye_amarican_girl

 Well, the heavy Prunus Serotina decided to leave me.

She is heading for W. P.'s garden.

And again no hard feelings. I am just glad that she found her perfect destination.

The new owner can do more for this specimen than i ever could.

By the way, can anybody help to get the tree from Hamburg to Munich?

heavy_campestre_update

 

I hardly dare to show this tree ...

It had been a very bad season for this particular specimen 

(storm-damage, watering-issues e,t,c, ...)

I underestimated the difficulty of designig A. campestre.

' Shortened the tree a bit.

At least the lower branches have increased in diameter ...

The top will will certainly recover very quickly ... So just for the record :

visit_of_mrs._Heike_vanGunst

 

Today i had the great honor, to have Mrs. Heike van Gunst being

a guest in my humble garden.

Heike really is famous among the bonsai-community!

She was born in 1966 and was very much interested in plants

from early childhood on.

At age 13 she saw a bonsai tree for the first time and began to

gather experience in 1981 with seedlings and a first bonsai book.

At first she learned from books, magazines and her own experiments,

later she learned more in a local club and in workshops with

several teachers.

The former IT consultant works for the Bonsai Art

magazine since 2013 and since 2016 she is the chief editor.

She translates bonsai books and bonsai demonstrations and travels

to bonsai events in Germany and abroad.

thuja_design_evolution

 An update of my "Abor Vitae", Thuja Occidentales, Eastern white cedar ....

Slowly, very slowly i am approaching my design-vision ...

If you want to obtain such raw-material, than ask the owner of your local 

garbage-dump.

 Each spring and autumn  a whole lotta stumps will be tossed out of the gardens 

in your  neighborhood ... So simple is that ...  (Just an example ...)

The rest is gentle work with the creature in empathy and passion for the wonder of creation ...

strange_prunus_cerasifera

This tree has got totally different stories or characters depending on the viewing-sites.

No other tree-design in my collection shows this different statements so dramatically.

A strange design, maybe i failed  and spoiled the tree-design, i can not exclude this possiblity,

But anyway,  the story of this Prunus will continue either way...

Personally i like to think about which viewing-site is best ..