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 :

 

 

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?