Tag: ramification
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Volunteering at the Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection
So I was emailing back and fourth with Dave Degroot some time ago – he is the curator of the Rim, and told him I’d love to volunteer sometime… he kindly accepted my offer. Today was my first day. I had a GREAT time!!! Fun crew to hang out with, especially our own Dick Benbow […]
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That moment when it all pays off
This last weekend we stopped by the Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection to view an exhibit of several of our teachers trees. It is always very exciting to see them displayed in new and different setting. The trees of course were all wearing their very best and looking especially glamorous. One of the trees on display […]
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The Taming of the Hornbeam
How fitting that the last image in the previous post be of the tree in this one. We didn’t plan it that way… I promise! Creating that essence of age that we strive for in deciduous material is a combination of several tasks over the course of many years. In the early years it is […]
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Sunshine – It’s elemental my dear Watson…
To make a visually pleasing bonsai is a matter of balance in all things. The pot to the tree, the base to the trunk, the trunk to the main branches, and the main branches to the tertiary branches. To make a great bonsai, to our mind, requires the tree to also tell you a dramatic story of survival against the most hostile […]