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From the flower bed to the Tokonoma
An outskirts Juniper
Juniperus Old Gold
A long lasting workshop
Chamaecyparis Pisifera
The charm of Shari
Scheduled works on a Juniperus Chinensis
Twisting path
Yew : a splendid species
Thuja
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Scheduled works on
a Juniperus Chinensis
Whan we buy a tree, in particular
when it is a nursery one without any bonsai bent, we use to start
immediately in model it without any working and timescheduling.
It is important to proceed step by step in the time suitable for the
tree to allow it to overcome the working stress.
(a cold greenhouse, during winter time, helps the trees recovery form
repotting and working keeping humidity and warmer temperatures)
Thanks to my bad experiences, we must resist to get the result in
a rush, the tree would be more satisfactory and healthier, sometime
it may happen to obtain quicker the final result working with patience.
(In my opinion, for daily workshop and demo, only pre-prepared tree
should be used.)
In this article I am talking about a bonsai worked in asingle day,
lukyly it survived, but the mistakes negative marked the maturity
of this tree.
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Picture # 1
Late spring 1994 - The tree in the pruchasing moment: it
was very thicken but too long to botain proportional layers
for the final design. So shorter branches has benn selected,
even if the needles were less mature.
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Picture # 2
A single day modelling step: front location, branches selection,
two shari carving, layer modellinge, and finally, repotting.
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Picture # 3
Onother branches selection, wiring and branches positioning.
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Picture # 4
For helping the health recovery it has been repotted on
a more large pot and left free to grow.
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Picture # 5
Autumn 1995: the tree was
in the optimal conditions to be remodelled.
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Picture # 6
Autumn
1996: the front vein was dead, so the actaul front was wrong,
after possible solutions evaluation, a new front has been
choosen.
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Picture # 7
Thinking
of the new design trying to use all the live branches keeping
also branches useless in other occasions.
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Picture # 8
Agoust 2001- A bonsai should
never be considered finished but always under evaluation
looking for new possible solutions to improve the tree harmony.
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