The Bonsai Blog of Carlos van der Vaart

Again another demo in Belgium, this time it was hosted by bonsaiclub Shinpaku, close to Hasselt where the Noelanders event is held every year. This time one of my students Dominique Bosch assisted me, we had a great day, first we went to Danny Use of Ginko Bonsai and later one we went on our way for the demo, so we drove almost 600 km’s this day. I took a pinus mugo with me wich was collected in Dolomites, this tree was very interesting with lot of dead wood, but also very difficult because of the old branches that where to thick to bend. So we had to find the tree in the tree and we had to solve the puzzle how to bend the big trunk in order to get the foliage closer to the base, because it was to wide out. so we removed the old and dead wood in order to get it more flexible and we added black raffia and a lot of guy wires and bending tools, so we did the job and had a lot of fun… thank you bonsai club Shinpaku and Dominique.