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me responded very well to receiving regular watering for a change especially the sub alpine firs their needle color went from a stressed yellowish color to green very quickly and stiffened up as they became turgid with the much needed moisture i gave them all some organic fertilizer i d made late summer and even felt confident enough to style some of them so here are a few i was able to photograph well there are many too large to get good photos of and will post about these when the time is right first up is a natural bunjin style tree i cleaned up removing toothpick jins and junk from the trunk but nothing else at 41 tall this tree imparts a feeling of an older tree in the forest growing up to compete with others for sunlight while displaying the downward branches typical of long winters of heavy snow load it also has fairly mature bark which is hard to find with these firs the smaller ones that are collectible are usually saplings with very smooth bark this was collected in early august and is acclimating very well next is a little cascade style i collected during the same trip i found this growing upright and as such had a long slow curve for a trunk line after puzzling over what to do with it one day i got out some expanded metal lathe to cover the surface of the pot and tipped it to see how it might look as a cascade i liked what i saw and was inspired to follow through with a light wiring to rough in the design while i m on the topic of cascade style i found another tree in a semi cascade orientation during the same trip this tree is quite old and has deeply fissured corky bark as well as shari starting from the base of the trunk and continuing to the dead jin that was once the tree s apex it was growing in a pocket of rock on a ledge and i was able to get the entire root system home with me it had one branch growing ram rod straight and i couldn t resist styling it to see what i could do with it a detail of the work i ve found fall to be the best time to work on these trees as their bark is very soft and sappy if bruised or broken some kind of protection such as raffia is essential for bending larger branches a shot of the tree s apex the shari along the trunk these trees retain a lot of resin in their sapwood and heartwood and the shari on this one is very good no rot is present yet and the bone white color is totally natural i haven t used a drop of lime sulphur on it and a final detail of the base of the trunk which is 3 1 2 in diameter where it emerges from the soil and here s a little something i found a small forest that was a rodent s cache or a cone whose seeds never dispersed and sprouted together there are seven trunks and an oregon boxwood to boot a real treasure of a find i think a little pruning and a little wire will be all that s needed to make this a stunner oh and a nice pot a detail showing branches already set with downward angles and a nice natural mochikomi surface surrounding the trees this is something i always try to preserve when i collect a tree i think it s sad to see other collected trees with the surface soil and mosses ripped away unecsessarily i know it s not always possible to retain something like this but i like to if and when i can as it can give a real sense of place where the trees have originated a built in accent planting if you will next i d like to show you a tree i found falling away from a vertical rock wall i could see that if i didn t collect it fate was not going to be kind to this one another tree i was able to get the entire root system of i fertilized immediately and styled the same season as collected i used every branch this tree had here s a shot of the work one last shot of the base of the trunk this one another long tall sally measuring in at 42 i saved the best for last i almost passed this one up as i saw it from a distance it looked like a sapling from far away but something about where it was growing caused me to come in for a closer look dangling from a vertical rock wall i was thrilled to find a very old contorted and twisted trunk that was rooted to the wall in two places i haven t touched this one yet and it was so wide i couldn t get it in on the background a detail of the shari and closer this is a very old tree by the look of the bark and the shari on the trunk a look around the back that s all for today i hope i ve whetted your appetite for sub alpine fir bonsai comment call the press filed under uncategorized 1 comment two posts in the same week i m on a roll somebody stop me my internet is no better today but i was so pleased with the way my photo session went yesterday i can t wait to share my work with you just after finishing the larger common juniper i decided to work on the pacific yew i ve posted about this tree on the blog before regarding its first potting to a bonsai container i did some pruning this summer and realized the tree is very strong so had planned to style it this fall after one year and seven months in a bonsai pot here is the tree after styling with a view of the new preferred front which is rotated about 5 minutes clockwise from the original front and a shot of the original front detail of live veins near apex detail of apex and ten jin detail of upper right branch detail of the apex there s much more i d like to share but my internet is making this painfully slow an unpredictable please bear with me for more comment recent work filed under uncategorized 10 comments december 1 2015 i m long past due for a new post here i ve been busy putting things away for winter building a sun porch for my tropicals and dealing with an apprentice who took off leaving me short handed when he discovered there is work involved with respect to bonsai he is now at large somewhere in portland oregon and will have illegal alien status december 6th if any of you out there in blog land know of his whereabouts please report him to immigration authorities on to the trees the first tree up is a common juniper juniperus communis i collected in november of 2007 in washington state it was three trees in one as it spent most of its existence sprawled out over rock and where a branch touched a pocket in the rock it rooted and formed a separate tree i ve featured one of these trees on this blog before some of you might know it as cj i held back on the mother tree for so long 8 years because of how much work cj had been for me the mother tree is large 29 1 2 from the rim of the pot after styling and i figured i better prepare myself for the work the task took me three full days to complete and a nasty little rash on my hands those needles are sharp but wasn t as difficult as i had imagined it would be and there is still a little yet to do as i didn t want to stress the tree too much just before winter set in the tree as it is today a detail of the drop branch on the right a detail of the mid trunk shari detail of the upper trunk near the apex detail of first branch and last a detail of the bend in the trunk in the upper right side of the tree here s a shot of cj the daughter ground layer from the tree above recognize it a detail of pad development i ve got more to post but am having some issues now with my internet connection so will publish this and pick up again when i have a better connection thanks for reading comment yellowstone part two filed under uncategorized leave a comment october 25 2015 back again as promised to finish up my story and trip to yellowstone national park earlier this month i ll pick up right where i left off at the firehole river with the pair of trumpeter swans feeding feeding pair of trumpeter swans a parting shot the grand canyon of the yellowstone i really was there last stop was mammoth hot springs which has changed considerably since i last visited a lot of the terraces were no longer flowing and looked grey and dead fortunately i found this one just as it was getting dark ciao comment life after the artisans cup filed under uncategorized 4 comments shortly after the artisans cup see previous post i decided to take a small vacation to yellowstone park as i had business to take care of in bozeman montana my hometown the weather was perfect and it had been many years since i d been to visit the park always a favorite of mine while growing up on my way over the bridge i was on my way to fairy falls and the imperial valley a place i d never been to before clear pool i was told by a fellow tourist who had been on a tour these pools that are clear are over 160 f the bacteria that make them cloudy cannot survive in that kind of heat beauty pool closer even the steam is blue fairy falls imperial geyser hello buffalo more fairy falls from across the valley geyser in the middle of nowhere yeah the imperial valley logs to walk on to keep from stepping in the marsh what s this a trumpeter swan the first time i ve seen one not one but two get that fisherman out of there please dinnertime i have to wrap it up here and pick up some other time comcast is really becoming a problem for me know of a better internet service comment taking a stand filed under uncategorized 4 comments september 17 2015 we had a little rain in portland this morning which means i have some time to make a post to my blog last friday bonsai stand maker austin heitzman stopped by to deliver a stand for my tree that s austin on the left and the new apprentice andres on the right we were happy with the fit for those of you coming to portland for the artisans cup you will get to inspect austin s work close up in the exhibit the stand he made for me plus many other exhibitors in the cup and now is the time for us to remove old needles from the ponderosas and other pines and also remove any wires that are biting into the branches the tree is a little big so i got right up on the bench with it it was getting dark and we had a beautiful sunset that evening i hope you enjoyed this short post now it s back to the trees comment i m back filed under uncategorized 4 comments august 29 2015 some of you have been pestering me about putting up another post on the blog truth is i ve been crazy busy this summer and have some awesome news i m finally getting some help around here his name is andres perez and he s from medellin colombia that s in south america i flew to meet him in bogota in july to be with him during his interview with the consul at the us embassy there it was not what i had in mind for an embassy your interview is conducted via telephone like they do in prisons the consul is behind 2 of bulletproof glass and you are outside yes colombia is near the equator and the weather is pretty much the same all the time bogota sits at 8 000 elevation so it is a bit cool and it rains a lot so there is an awning to stand under at least to keep colombian citizens from getting wet during their interview i also noticed the the us flag that hung over the embassy was very dirty what does that say about our pride to the colombian people i wonder but i digress after nearly a year of waiting and hiring an immigration attorney they granted andres his visa to come to the us on july 21 he will be making the 17 hour flight to portland september 5 and arriving the following day on the 6th just in time for the artisans cup hooray and speaking of which i have a dog in the fight my southwestern pine was accepted into the show among the 70 other trees quite an honor and another reason i ve been off the radar preparing the tree for the show and sprucing up the garden for visitors from around the world yes if you come here for the artisans cup track me down and we ll see what we can do to get you over to see some really oddball bonsai and if that news wasn t enough i will be conducting tours for michael hagedorn s portland bonsai village throughout the duration of the show here s the link to the village website http www portlandbonsaivillage com welcome 1 michael has put a lot of effort into the new website and i think it is outstanding and how about some photos southwestern white pine the rest of the photos are going up without text as my internet connection is bad because of the high winds today enjoy i hope you enjoyed the show and i hope you are able to travel to our bonsai village and tour the gardens mine included and meet my new apprentice andres ciao comment bsop spring show filed under uncategorized 6 comments june 3 2015 the bonsai society of portland held its annual spring show at the portland japanese garden pavilion memorial day weekend may 23rd and 24th record crowds were on hand both days to view the exhibit which made getting photos a bit of a challenge plus my camera insisted on adding flash for extra lighting the club tokonoma that greeted the visitor on entering held a willow by lee cheatle please click on the image to enlarge it until i figure out how to get them larger in the first place to the left a cork bark black pine from scott elser and the winner of best accent award by patty myrick the best deciduous award was a tie this year an antarctic beech from dennis vojtilla and my black huckleberry the winner of best conifer was eileen knox s scots pine best saikei was awarded to scott elser for his beech saikei and the anne spencer shohin award went to deb wilcox for her coast redwood lyle feilmeier brought a dogwood in bloom a satsuki azalea from the collection of bob laws i brought in an alaska yellow cedar a large birch from dennis vojtilla a large ponderosa pine from lee cheatle a japanese maple from dennis vojtilla a lodgepole pine from scott elser there were some nice shohin displays i believe this larch belongs to eileen knox stand by jan hettick more shohin i m sorry i don t know who each tree belongs to but i do know our shohin displays have trees from many members more shohin sorry for the poor quality of this photo pat foldi showed a nice procumbens al polito brought in an unusual vine maple sorry for the underexposure some areas of the pavilion were not lit as well as others a nice japanese black pine from bob laws a random shot to show the scale of scott s saikei i had to get in on the action and the accent i brought in to go with it harebells and mushrooms and moss 16 years this spring we were lucky to have matt reel conduct our saturday night critique he studied for eight years with shinji suzuki in nagano japan he gave us some great insights on improving our bonsai and our displays i hope you have enjoyed this overview of our spring show comment older entries search for recent posts alaska yellow cedar update season s greetings sub alpine firs call the press recent work archives february 2016 december 2015 october 2015 september 2015 august 2015 june 2015 may 2015 january 2015 december 2014 september 2014 july 2014 june 2014 may 2014 april 2014 march 2014 february 2014 january 2014 december 2013 november 2013 october 2013 september 2013 august 2013 july 2013 may 2013 april 2013 march 2013 january 2013 december 2012 november 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