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.

Picture:

quickshot_juniperus_sabina

 Made this quickshot of my new J. sabina with my mobile, after the first styling-session.

Sorry for the bad quality. 'Have to put up my photo-equipment to do better fotos.

According to the design, I tried on a classic, maybe neo-classic, mainstream or whatever style ...

At present I am very captivated of  the japanese styling-approach ...

And, as always, the tree looks by far more "3d-ish" in nature, than on this particular bad foto ...

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 ...