Tag: focal point bonsai
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The Seven States of Bonsai – Part Two
(This post is rated PG… seedlings should not read this without parental guidence… Yah I know, keep my day job.) Continued from Part One in this series… Reproduction: The development of fruit, seed pods, or cones on a tree. This usually happens during periods of active growth through to fall. Reproduction for a tree early […]
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The Seven States of Bonsai – Part One
If you are reading this you want to learn something about bonsai… sometimes we don’t even know what we are searching for… just something, anything really, which will help us be more successful in keeping our trees alive. Originally this was going to be one huge post, and then my husband rightly pointed out that […]
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Arrival of a Larix
Today our good friend John Conn delivered a tree to us that we had recently purchased. It happened by chance that he would be at the nursery where the tree was and he was kind enough to offer to bring it with him upon his return. Just today the tree was dropped off and we […]
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Wire Wire Every Where
(This is a re-post of an article from Dec, 2011. I brought it here for you to enjoy.) Recently I worked on a large Korean Hornbeam of Daniel Robinson’s (my teacher) at Elandan Gardens, this is the story of that tree, through a few images. For those of you familiar with Elandan you will have […]
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A silver lining for a yellow cedar
Since my friend grouper52 suggested that I post some pictures of the AYC (Alaskan Yellow Cedar – Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) I have been working on I decided I would take him up on that. I got my wife to take some pictures of its current state