update_chinese_Juniper_blauwii

 Here a short update of my oldest Bonsai.

After a long, long time this tree is almost ready to be maintained just by using cutting techniques.

cutting techniques. The pot could be a bit larger.

Hinoki_make_over

A couple of weeks ago, i had been in the mood for a make over 

of a Hinoki as shown in December '22 on this blog. 

Eversince I wanted to give it a try on a windswept design.

In addition to that, I will create a concrete-slab for this particular tree.

So just for the record, this is how it begun with the newly designed Hinoki ...

tiny_yew_update

 So it went on with the little twisted yew. I have to admit that the overall design is a bit boring 

at that stage of development yet. The crown appeares too routinely and does not suit well to the 

contorted trunc. I wil fix that in autumn this year. 

reduction_to_the_max

 A Juniperus Squamata Blue Star (?) i acquired in March 2020 in an old nursery as raw-material. Since the tree had an utterly useless structure to be developed as a bonsai, i decided to select one of the two trunc-lines (posting of Septembre 2021). 

Now i decided to follow this path of reduction. After a heavy bending of the trunc had been done the second time, i selected, wired and formed the needle-pads and sat the branch-strutcure.

I wanted an overall shorter and slender tree with less branches than before, hence the more elegant appearance.

My favorit front-view:

And another viewing-angle :

 

 

taxus_makeover

For my taste this little Taxus baccata var. repanda had been to wide (pictures in posting as of 12.2020).

For that resaon i decided to make a complete makeover of the tree's design, cause the dimension led to a

very young appearance of the yew. Now i like it better. The jins will be reworks in a couple of weeks.

I worked on that yew in company with my-Bonsai-Companion Jens. That was great fun ...

 

The front?

 

Better?

 

fancy_little_yew

 A taxus baccata i acquired from a bonsai-fellow. The tree originally came from Poland.

From the beginning this yew had been strong and healthy and went during my possession through two 

winter-saisons without any difficulties. 

The deadwood-work has to be improved and the overall shape is still a little bit too unrefined yet.

Well, i am not unsatisfied with the development after two years  ...

I like this front-view:

Or rahter this one? 

from_bush_to_beauty

A Chamacyparis obtusa i acquired in a small nursery as a fairly neglected bush.

The leafs of this particular cultivar are very brittle, so not easy to style this specimen wtihout losses.

The first styling-session therefor had its "collateral-damages" ...

The bark of the trunc is very mature.

Since this hinoki-cultivar is growing very slowly i consider the tree to be pretty old.

Over all the plant is a bit to dense (as always in my Hinoki-projects) to keep the energy.

I look forward to reduce the design in future as well as improving the ten-jin, if not removing it ...

 

My front-view:

Another possible front-view:

 

And the source-plant as rawest material. 

I tried to show the status quo blended into the former dimension of the 

bushy scrub :