The Bonsai Blog of Rune Kyrdalen

Here is an update on a comparatively small pine I have. It has very good trunk movement and really rugged bark. The rugged bark doesn’t show on the new photos because the trunk is wet so I’m attaching an old photo where the trunk is dry as well.

I will cut back unneccesary branches next spring and leave it another year before I start to style it.

Here is an update on a very twisted pine I have.

It has grown very well this summer, I more or less got the complete rootball when I collected it and it didn’t seem to notice that it was moved into a pot : -)

In time I will bend the upper part of the tree so that the foliage is closer to the trunk, and the volume of foilage will obiously be reduced quite a bit. I love the shape of this tree!

This pine was collected spring 2007 and is my biggest pine. It will need some serious bending of the upper right branch but eventually it will be a compact super pine. The nebari is superb!

This Lonicera was collected in spring 2007 together with the other one I showed. Here are some updates on it.

First pic is from june 2008, second pic with berrys from august and third and fourth pic from october after the second wiring. I cut it back hard to develop better ramification. This species ramifies very well and already next year I will get much better ramification on this one.