Sabina_from_Spain

 Bought this one on the trophy in Genk/Belgium this year.

A Juniperus Sabina-yamadori. I consider this material as quite promising on the one hand,

but very difficult on the other hand. 

This because of the lower, very elongated  branch with almost no green on it.

Picture number #3 shows a virtual as a study of my designing-vision.

Picture 1:

Picture 2

Virtual

my_wifes_favorite_tree

 One day my wife and me went through a tree-nursery in our hood.

My wife suddenly discovered a nice looking Chamacyparis obtusa nana.

She asked me to style this tree for a bonsai.

Well, through a few detours this Hinoki finaly found its way into my garden.

In January 2022 I styled this tree as shown in posting of 22th Jan. of 2022 on this blog.

In April 2023 I enhanced the design of the tree a bit. 

Pictures:

yet_another_Hinoki_update

 No major changes so far. The tree has still to establish himself into his pot ...

I am satisfied, that the tree made it so well through the wintermonth and the relativly cold springtime.

Now I am waiting for new grows. We need strength in that Chamacyparis obtusa ... 

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 :