J.blauwii_tanuki_development

 And this is how it went on with one of my tanukis.

Just two years under my control.

It seems, as if the living part is thriving very well. The rest of the wiring will be taken off 

next spring. So far so good. The tree is for sale as well ...

sabina_for_sale

The tree decided to leave my garden.

I wonder were this specimen is heading for ... 

This Juniperus Sabina is for sale. 

Today I clipped off the extremly extended shoots in order to distribute the energy all over the tree.

It really gained a lot of energy this season.

I am pretty satisfied with my designing-efforts, although this Juniper decided to leave.

In particular I like this special green color of Sabinas ...

update_Thuja_occidentalis

Well, the tree had a good growing-season. There had been no fungus-issues like last year.

I clipped the shoots a bit. The tree is now 57 cm in height, 50 cm in width, 47 cm in depth and 

the nebari messures 23 centimeters on its widest extent.

The tree is for sale ...

Plastic_tree

 I know, I know, the tree now looks rather like a plastic-tree.

But I am pretty sure, that the overall appearance will improve within the next two years or so.

Sometimes things have to become worse, to get better in the long run ...

So just for the record:

nice_but_wrong

 According to working with yamadori-material or container-conifers from a garden-center, I have always been thought, that the assumption "finding the smallest tree" (within in the material) would give me a hint to a good first styling-result.

Well in this particular case my assumption was defenitly wrong. A Chamacyparis (no matter what kind or cultivar) would never "put" the leader-shoot down, to form a, what bonsai-people would call a "pad".

I signed the weak points with drawn arrows in the posting-image.

Therefore, I will cancel my former idea, in favour of a more upright design.

The following days I will post the result of my attempt for a more natural design.

unorthodox_yew_vitual

 The draft of a virtual according to  the previous posting.

It may seem a bit eccentric, but it is just a draft and this picture is just a "screen-shot of my mind"

today. It will defenitly turn out different, but for me it is interesting to see the difference between

 phantasy and reality, after the first maturing years of this marriage.

Virtual:

Taxus_Tanuki

 I decided trying to transform an old Taxus stump into a Tanuki.

The living part will be Taxus as well. The stump has been weathered for a couple of years outside in my

garden.

Then I gave it to a professional sandblasting company. Maybe I will make some changes and carvings

 here and there, but by and large the basis will stay as it is now. The wire-cutter is placed as a scale. 

Height: 50 cm, Nebari: up to 30 cm.

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