Fat prunus first wireing

A short break at the seaside

Greetings to all my friends!

Carpinus orientalis III Evolution

Carpinus orientalis collected 2009. First prunning and shaping, first wire. A sketch.

See also here:
http://sandevbonsai.blogspot.com/2009/02/carpinus-orientalis-yamadori-iii-iv.html


The tree after collecting:


Back side?
The tree this morning before first basic prunning, selecting main lines and wireing:

First sketch finished. Enough for this year. I will remove the wire in one month time and the tree will grow freely for rest of the season.

Carpinus orientalis Evolution II

See also here: http://sandevbonsai.blogspot.com/2009/01/carpinus-orientalis-yamadori-collecting.html

Little orientalis, second year after collection, first year with bonsai technics applied.

Carpinus orientalis Evolution

Carpinus orientalis evolution in two years!

See also here: http://sandevbonsai.blogspot.com/2010/04/after-workshop.html

and here: http://sandevbonsai.blogspot.com/2010/03/4th-south-east-european-bonsai.html

Today photos:

Well, my arm is getting better, so I am beginning to do some work in the garden. I have been pausing for a long time...too long for me.

Taxus tanuki 2

Tanuki part 2. Here you can see Mario's hands helping me with drilling procedure. Tanuki on taxus proved to be very difficult task. Extremely hard wood, even young taxus plants you cannot easily bend! And old weathered wood is even harder. It is so hard that it's difficult to hammer a nail into it!

After some thinking, we have found basic lines along young taxus trees will travel up the dead trunk.

The stump with finished drilling.

"New growth" is in place. Young trees are fastened to the old stock using nails or screws.

There is really not much to see now. These young trees will not be further worked this year. There will be no wireing or cutting extra growth. The main aim is to fatten the live veins as quickly and as much as possible. Any cutting will be unproductive. If everything goes well, first shaping is to be expected next year, together with some cleaning and working on deadwood. I will report further developement.

Taxus baccata Tanuki

What we have here is one dead Taxus. Unfortunately... it happens. But, with very interesting deadwood. It would be a shame not to use it. So I decided to make a tanuki or "phoenix graft".
First photo is a dead taxus in the pot:

I aquired a few young taxus baccata plants like this one on the photo below. They measure
2-3cm in diameter.

So, this is our task. The skeleton is here, extracted from the pot and cleaned of substrate.

The deadwood has many interesting sides.

Tomorrow I'll show the result. Phoenix graft will be born tomorrow morning.