• Thursday, July 30th, 2009
A few weeks ago I worked on my shohin ficus nerafolia to get it back into shape. As you may remember I priuned this tree pretty hard to get it close to the trunk. Well just a few weeks have gone by and the tree has pretty much completly filled in and regained its great shape.
New foliage on Ficus Nerafolia
It still needs so refining, but it won’t be long until my negleted little tree is back in show shape.
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• Friday, December 19th, 2008
At times I’m reminded of my Mother saying, “well you wanted a puppy…”, because when it comes to Bonsai there is a lot of work to be done. However I am still very happy that I have my Bonsai collection, and my trees are all doing very well.
Here is my huge Trident Maple after its first year in a Bonsai pot. The weather hasn’t fully turned very cold yet, so I helped my tree go dormant by removing the leaves.
You can see all the buds in place ready for next Spring, so removing the leaves didn’t hurt the tree. However it does allow me to get a look at the growth, and get prepared for all the wiring.
Notice how all the new growth is growing straight up, well that’s what needs to be wired down. Why? Well first of all old trees have hanging branches, whereas young tree have branches that grow upwards. So by wiring them down we add the illusion of age. Also it opens the tree so that light can get to the trunk and more branches can grow. Remember last year there were very few branches so in a very short time this tree has become rather dense.
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• Thursday, July 21st, 2005
This tree has recovered very nicely and is putting out new growth after some major pruning earlier this month. Its good to see. Also for the first time, the crown is beginning to develop. This will help me to fill in the top of this tree and get it further along onto completing it. July 2005
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• Thursday, February 21st, 2002
Spring 2002, new growth
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