Posted in Uncategorized on March 31st, 2009 No Comments »
Managed to take some more pic’s of the proposed Semi Beech.
The plan is to carve the trunk to give taper and the re-arrange the branches to form the new tree.
I know the tree will take this amount of carving from previous attempts and also from the original raft.
This had a natural healing of the trunk [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17th, 2009 2 Comments »
R.I.P.
Bad news. This one has not survived the winter.I am feeling a bit gutted. Although not my favourate, i have spent a long time with this tree and i am suffering a loss.
I have only loss 3 trees before in 21 years and they were all fresh yamadori so this one hurts.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 12th, 2009 2 Comments »
I have been thinking of changing this raft planting for some time. It measures over 1.0m wide.
I am going to chop the trunk to make two trees.
A shorter raft and a semi cascade.
The work went well and the new raft was planted in a suitable dish.
The first part of the trunk was planted in a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 7th, 2009 1 Comment »
Re-potted more trees today.
First was a Shohin Sycamore.
This one is 17cm high and i am sure will continue to be a problem !!
These are very course in their growth and are difficult to get re-finement in branch structure.
But, it does have a great nebrari.