band_of_junipers

Different trees, same procedure.
And again: find the smallest tree ...
For the record, this is how it started in 12.2019 ...

First styling:

 Second styling with reduction of height ...

The second tree before ...

And after  the styling-session ...

juniper_first_styling

Yesterday I had the chance to spend some time on working on Chinese Junipers
that I got from a nursery.

The raw nursery-plant:

After branch selection:

The initial styling, find "the smallest tree" ...
The stumps of the former substems will be carved in a couple of month.

update_heavy_prunus

And here an update of the Prunus serotina ...
The crown seems to be a bit to "twiggy", I mean the branches are very thin.
But there is a huge amount of buds. Next flushing in spring will bring a whole lotta energy into the ramification to thicken the twiggies ...
And for all of the european audience: The tree is for sale. You will rarely find another specimen of Prunus serotina this size with a Kevin Wilson carving ...

 

heavy_acer_campestre

Hello again!
I mean, I have had shown this particular tree in the thread "acer_cpmpestre_senoir".
Anyway, here comes an update of the field-maple still on a very raw stage.
The christmas-tree-shape is out of the question utterly inappropiate.
' Will be improved and adjusted in near future ...

 

And little friends dwelling in a branch-fork ...

update_linden_clump

And just for the record an update of the linden-clump after the stryling-session ...
I wanted to have a more dense , wider and less high crownsilhoutte ...
`Hope you like, and never forget, ist had been just a clump designated for
the logpile with almost no branches on it ...

prunus_transformation_update

... No, not a windswept habitus at all.
The tree decided to go in a more conventional design ...
The carvings will be improved this winter-season ...

update_linden_clump

New pot ...

Different viewing-angle ..-

update_thuja

New pot ...

 

Different viewing-angle ...

 

windswept_prunus_?

And just for the record an update of the prunus.
Transformation ... Hmm ... she decided to go for a kind of windswept design ...
The leafpads are too much pom-pom-like still.
This will change in autumn ...
Winterpics will be more convincing (hope so) ...

update_field_maple

This is how it went on with the fieldmaple (Acer campestre).
He is obviously doing very well. The leafs have this deep green colour
upon almost redish stems. This is how healthyness looks on this particular species.

The leafless pictures in Winter will be more interesting.
Ramification has developed nicely. In Autumn a total rewiring will be done
with an overhaul of the carving-sections.
The tachiagari is real cool (imho) ...

 

And here the old-man-arnie is put'n next to the tree as a size ratio ...

taxus_baccata_repanda_update

An impression of what I really used of the nursery material in order to find "the smallest tree" ...

The Yew after four month under my control

update_american_girl

The "American girl" is doing very fine. I am really looking foreward to do further designing in autumn. There are such a lot of new branches and twigs to come this growing period ...

And the "wilson-carving" is improving by weathering as well ...

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... ;-)