Bolero
Omono
Thank you all... especially BVF and Adair...I now have a new and different appreciation for Juniper in general and Shimpaku specifically.
Ancient Bonsai vs Todays Bonsai...
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Would you want to see a few more pictures of the Sierra Junipers?
GrimLore
Bonsai Nut alumnus... we miss you
Bolero
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Anthony
Imperial Masterpiece
Thank you Sifu !!!
Inspiring !!!!!!!
Now can anyone say ------- Phoenix Graft ---------
AND if it were legally allowed ---------- air layers.
And as expected down here, even with the rocks, which we do have,
the land is toooooooooo healthy.
Bah happy humbug.
Good Day
Anthony
For Sifu as a thank you , please excuse the stupid graffitti
AND yes I know you care little for tropicals.
Seagrape.
Inspiring !!!!!!!
Now can anyone say ------- Phoenix Graft ---------
AND if it were legally allowed ---------- air layers.
And as expected down here, even with the rocks, which we do have,
the land is toooooooooo healthy.
Bah happy humbug.
Good Day
Anthony
For Sifu as a thank you , please excuse the stupid graffitti
AND yes I know you care little for tropicals.
Seagrape.
Where does one read about old famous trees?
coh
Imperial Masterpiece
Are you sure Boon doesn't sneak up there a couple times a year to prune and wire that thing?
I find that tree remarkable. I often say that a lot of modern bonsai - especially what I call the "Kimura Creations" - look very incongruous, because the really neat green foliage masses don't seem to match the tortured, twisted deadwood on which they sit. And yet here is the exact same thing, made by nature. Certainly not as refined and manicured (foliage mass) as most bonsai are, but you can really see how something like this could be the inspiration for a lot of bonsai styling.
Unfortunately I haven't been to an area like this, to see really old/weather beaten trees, in many years. I did spend a fair amount of time out west, hiking in the Rockies near Boulder (including Rocky Mountain National Park), but that was almost 30 years ago, before I had really developed an interest in bonsai. I probably walked past trees like this one without giving them much thought at the time. Or maybe they planted a seed deep inside that germinated many years later.
I think I need to take another trip out west...
just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
That one I posted has some info on it on Bonsai Empire, I think...
They way that I've read many articles about specific old trees is to do a Google Images search, then find a picture of a tree that looks interesting enough to read about, click the pic, then click the link the the website that the pic came from...
The Hiroshima JWP I mentioned before is on display at the National Arboretum in DC, and has some info there...and plenty online, I haven't sifted through all of it, but it's a cool tree!....
Here are two pics I took of it last summer, '16.
It was really bright sun out that day...
I bet the pot under this thing weighs 60 lbs or more.
Buttonwood trees have great deadwood. Some of them tempt me from time to time. But I don’t have, nor do I want, a greenhouse. I’ll leave the tropicals for others.
That particular tree is remarkable. Every bonsai master that visits Boon from Japan wants to see it.Are you sure Boon doesn't sneak up there a couple times a year to prune and wire that thing?
I find that tree remarkable. I often say that a lot of modern bonsai - especially what I call the "Kimura Creations" - look very incongruous, because the really neat green foliage masses don't seem to match the tortured, twisted deadwood on which they sit. And yet here is the exact same thing, made by nature. Certainly not as refined and manicured (foliage mass) as most bonsai are, but you can really see how something like this could be the inspiration for a lot of bonsai styling.
Unfortunately I haven't been to an area like this, to see really old/weather beaten trees, in many years. I did spend a fair amount of time out west, hiking in the Rockies near Boulder (including Rocky Mountain National Park), but that was almost 30 years ago, before I had really developed an interest in bonsai. I probably walked past trees like this one without giving them much thought at the time. Or maybe they planted a seed deep inside that germinated many years later.
I think I need to take another trip out west...
You see, all the trees like that have been collected in Japan.
Boon goes to to visit it a couple times a year. He brings his students who have graduated from his Intensive classses. He points out particular trees and branches and shows how their structure is similiar to trees we have worked on in his garden. That is, he uses these wild trees as inspiration. These trees are thousands of years old. Green helmets and all!
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Awesome tree!
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One of m favorite trees. Image found on google via Sierra juniper search
What? Another Green Helmet? Oh, no!
Not a green helmet at all. 1 in 11 trees have a ''green helmet if you want to call it that. The first one. That's 10%! of trees! and I bet it's more like 1% in truth. Oh no!What? Another Green Helmet? Oh, no!
Vance Wood
Lord Mugo
Come on Adair, you would reject this tree if you found it just because some idiot has convinced a bunch of you guys that a Juniper that looks like this is a Green Helmet. Let me remind you that this is a natural tree growing in the mountians styled by no man? Perhaps this is an example in nature for styling trees in this manner?What? Another Green Helmet? Oh, no!
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