On Saturday I was able to bring a couple bonsai buddies together to help both physically and artistically with 3 projects that have been racing around in my head for a while.
1st project was a Winged Elm group that I put together one year ago. These elms are all collected and I incorporated a few pieces of lace rock in the original planting.
Before today's work...
As I had time to reevaluate this planting, I decided it needed a few more trees to fill in a couple empty spots. I also found a gorgeous Waldo Street Pottery container that I thought would improve the composition.
Here is the finished compositions...added two trees and moved it to the new container.
The second composition is an extra large Bald Cypress Forest that was in a 36" Mica pot. The basic plan for this one was to slip pot it into a new Fabulous Rob Wallace (WallaceWood Pottery) container. Although Rob didn't know it when he was making this container, it was custom made for this group... Here is the container...just over 32" wide and about 5.5" tall.
I wanted to slightly adjust the picture front for this piece. This meant I need to move a couple trees in order to get into the pot....
After a little finagling and removing two trees we were able to get into the container... Now we just needed to add the trees back in new locations and while we were at it we added a couple more smaller trunks for perspective. Here is the composition after we were finished...
The final group planting was the most involved. The material is nursery grown European Hornbeams. 3 Seasons ago I arranged a 5 tree group in a 31" oval Japanese container. Although I originally really liked this composition, I eventually grew to see it as pretty vanilla. It lacked any real excitement and interest....it was boring. Here it is from Feb of 21.
My plan was to separate these into a group of 2 and one of 3 trees along the obvious lines. We did that and it quickly became clear that we were going to need all the trees individually separated in order to adequately arrange them. After several hours trying all kinds of arrangements this was the outcome....less trunks than I anticipated but I liked the new variation in sizes as well as how it looked in the new container...
But I still wasn't happy with the outcome...I marinated on this all night and the next morning found a solution...
Last but not least the three together and one for perspective...
1st project was a Winged Elm group that I put together one year ago. These elms are all collected and I incorporated a few pieces of lace rock in the original planting.
Before today's work...
As I had time to reevaluate this planting, I decided it needed a few more trees to fill in a couple empty spots. I also found a gorgeous Waldo Street Pottery container that I thought would improve the composition.
Here is the finished compositions...added two trees and moved it to the new container.
The second composition is an extra large Bald Cypress Forest that was in a 36" Mica pot. The basic plan for this one was to slip pot it into a new Fabulous Rob Wallace (WallaceWood Pottery) container. Although Rob didn't know it when he was making this container, it was custom made for this group... Here is the container...just over 32" wide and about 5.5" tall.
I wanted to slightly adjust the picture front for this piece. This meant I need to move a couple trees in order to get into the pot....
After a little finagling and removing two trees we were able to get into the container... Now we just needed to add the trees back in new locations and while we were at it we added a couple more smaller trunks for perspective. Here is the composition after we were finished...
The final group planting was the most involved. The material is nursery grown European Hornbeams. 3 Seasons ago I arranged a 5 tree group in a 31" oval Japanese container. Although I originally really liked this composition, I eventually grew to see it as pretty vanilla. It lacked any real excitement and interest....it was boring. Here it is from Feb of 21.
My plan was to separate these into a group of 2 and one of 3 trees along the obvious lines. We did that and it quickly became clear that we were going to need all the trees individually separated in order to adequately arrange them. After several hours trying all kinds of arrangements this was the outcome....less trunks than I anticipated but I liked the new variation in sizes as well as how it looked in the new container...
But I still wasn't happy with the outcome...I marinated on this all night and the next morning found a solution...
Last but not least the three together and one for perspective...
