update_chinese_juniper

This is how it started in the last millennium.
Very poor material indeed, but I didn't knew it better that days ...

The tree of 1996 when I bought it from a nursery.
This particular species of Juniperus (J. Chinensis media blaauwi) is growing very, very slow.
Therefore I am posting here the stages of huge time-leaps ...

The first picture is a "repotted" and slighly optimized virtual of current stage ...

The middle trunc died and now they were twins.

About seven years ago

About three years ago

 

The tree as of today, with a chage of viewing-side and angle.

update_linden_clump

And an update of the linden_clump.
Repotted this spring, so from now no major works untill late summer.
Just Clip and grow. There will be a carving session in autumn to make the
trunc-relicts more intrgrated in the overall-design.

 

The original clump of 2013/14

curly_yew

Another Taxus-project. A Taxus baccata freshly taken out of the field.
In 2016 I "twisted" the thin trunc with wire.
I wanted to provoke a curled, uneven look of the trunc.
Now the yew is sheduled to establish within the traing-pot for abut two years.
A first, humble designing of the branches will we done in autumn this year.

Ehm ..., by the way, the third pictures shows a MC (Music Casette) as a scale.
(This was a nagnetic data storage device people used a very long time ago to record music on ...)

taxus_baccata_repanda

A new project. A Taxus baccata repanda, wich means this species is cultured to creep
along the gardens soil to serve as a groundcover-plant.
Anyway ...
I acquired the tree as a bargain from a local garden-center.
the yew before the styling:

And after the styling session:
And again,
if my wife would say: "You utterly ruined the poor tree!"
than I would know that I have done everything right... ;-)

prunus _timeline

Jeroen Mentens wanted to see the development of this Prunus.
Et voilà here we go ...pictures in a line from 2012 to 2019 ...
Please bear in mind, that the tree will receive a major change in design,
maybe in direction of a windswept-form.
Very small leafes she has, by the way ..

update_prunus_cerasifera

After a couple of years I decided to break the straight line of the trunk into something broken and perforated, while incoporating the upcoming son-trunc.
Well and this is the result before a further serious redesigning in summer 2019.
'Hope you can see a concept in that and like ...

third_thuja_of_three

The third brother of three thuja occidentalis.
Same as the others raw ,ugly and at the very first beginning.
A lot of carving has been done. The trunc is very massiv ...