Little procumbens from Mr. Kim

[milehigh_7]

I saw this guy and decided it would look good at my house. Nothing has been done to it. When should I remove the wires? Always open to guidance.

 

[Bill S]

Clyde cool little juni, as far as the wire removal it depends on when it was put on really, see if they know at the nursery. Other than that take the wire off this spring and see what happens.

Some pinching and pruning will take this a long way towards displaying it, too much foliage for now, unless it was recently rootworked.

 

[bonsai barry]

Check to see if the wire is actually doing anything. From the final photo, I'd say the wire has served its purpose already, or wasn't too effective to begin with.

 

[october]

Hello mh.. I see lots of potential here.. It seems since the jin is so strong that maybe that should be the focal point and the foliage second. I do not know if this is possible, but I created a virt... Pulling the apex down, moving and pruning the foliage so it does not hide the jin, just leave 2 foliage pads and a different pot.

Rob

 

[tmmason10]

Not a bad pick up at all. I'm looking for a juni with some deadwood, or potential for me to make some.

 

[milehigh_7]

Thanks everyone and Rob that is a great idea! Definitely have to study this one a bit. Many of Mr. Kim's trees have not had the maintenance that they could use for a while. This was one that looks like it has not had work for some time.

 

[snowsurf125]

Hey milehigh, are you talking about Kim's Bonsai in Phelan?

 

[milehigh_7]

Hey milehigh, are you talking about Kim's Bonsai in Phelan?

Yep that's the one.

 

[Smoke]

I don't think Benny has done anything to the junipers out there for nearly 20 years. About 75 perecent of them have excaped thru the cans and are a tangled mess growing far into the ground. It is a shame that this fine nuresery is in the state of disrepair it is. Back in the day one could go into the hoop houses and find row upon row of diciduous trees from Korea, China, and Japan. Many of them were in the 100.00 dollar range with trunks about 3 to 4 inches.

Here are a couple of pictures that I managed to salvage from my first computer. All of the pictures of Kims were lost when bonsaiTALK closed down. Check out these tridents. The first batch are in the 140.00 dollar range. The second photo is of the gnome tridents in the 750.00 range. Wish I had bought all of them. This was about two years before the USDA clamped down on import bonsai so hard.

All should recognise the middle photo as the one I purchased and have shown so many times.

 

[Smoke]

I think Rob has a good idea. I would work towards that.

 

[milehigh_7]

I totally agree about Rob's idea so that is the plan! Yes Al your assessment of the place is accurate. It is in quite a state of disrepair.

 

[snowsurf125]

Hey Milehigh, I thought I recognized the writing on the pot. I live about 10 mins from him. He is my teacher.

Smoke, Thanks for the pictures. I found out about Kim's Bonsai about 3 years ago i think and in that time, I have seen it go down a little too, but I don't know the severity it has slipped over the years. I know over the last 6 months or so, he has slowed down quite a bit due to his health. He was not doing good a few months back and was told he couldn't do any work during the entire winter season, so it is quite understandable. Sad. He is a great man and teacher. I wish I would have been able to see his nursery back when it was in its prime. My brother and I were fortunate enough however to pick up a few of his large Trident maples last year when he dug up about 20 or so. I posted one of them a while back here: http://bonsainut.com/forums/showthr...-amp-First-Post&highlight=large+trident+maple

 

[milehigh_7]

Yep he seems like a great man. I could not help but be reminded of my late grandfather when speaking with him.