do you have at least one forrest?

do you have at least one forrest or group planting?

  • yes

    Votes: 45 60.0%
  • no

    Votes: 15 20.0%
  • working on making one

    Votes: 15 20.0%

  • Total voters
    75
View attachment 113574 Picture from last year. Needs some attention it's grown out of control this year, so has the kiddo!
This one needs a haircut!
Might want to prune that tree a bit too... ;)
Cute kid, great trees!

I have a large Trident forest, but it needs some work. I need to repot it and add some trees of more varied height and width for interest. Plan on doing that next year most likely... It is still pretty cool but doesn't photograph well where it sits and I just don't wand to move that bevy SOB unless I have to!
 
just 1???? I have at least 2 dozen forest, group, grove, and/or mixed plantings in my collection...from 4" to 4' and up to 70+ trees...


...glad you liked it! I have 4 boxwood group plantings alone
Why don't you grab a few of those large ones, take them in the studio and snap some pics for us? You got a fork lift, right? ;)
 
This one needs a haircut!
Might want to prune that tree a bit too... ;)
Cute kid, great trees!

I have a large Trident forest, but it needs some work. I need to repot it and add some trees of more varied height and width for interest. Plan on doing that next year most likely... It is still pretty cool but doesn't photograph well where it sits and I just don't wand to move that bevy SOB unless I have to!
Yea it's like trying to cut the great Danes nails gotta chase em down and offer him candy haha. The forrest actually got a cut last night , painful stuff when they get overgrown. I'm trying to get a guy who works for me to come get some good pictures of alot of my good trees here soon. I don't have a good camera. Thanks
 
Was ment as a compliment. I had played with some before I went inorganic...but I couldn't reduce the leaf size and they seemed not to respond well.
 
Here's one by a guy named Dean Bull, on display at MABA in Chicago, 1998. It always stuck with me. It was a forest fire scene regenerating with some little seedlings started among the charred remains.
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Dean isn't a member here but he sent me this message for you Brian.


“I am so honored that you blew the dust off of that piece after nearly 20 years! It is still viable, when I can spend about 12 hours in the spring, harvesting jack pine seeds and sprouting them for exhibits. I frequently meet people who remember it from years past and ask about it. I was inspired by an area that had been burned over by a careless homeowner—I had been familiar with the area. This was long before I became a bonsai artist. Once I did get involved in the art, I just HAD to create it in miniature. The one you showed is actually the second incarnation—the first one rotted out after a few years. This one will last many decades. Thank you. —Dean Bull. Traverse City,Michigan”
 
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