Bonsai pics for Mikey ;)

[Steeldrifter 0]

Spent the morning working on one of my bonsai trees while I was waiting for an aquarium background customer to get here. Gave my juniper it's 2nd styling. This was an after season $5 lawn shrub bought from Lowes 2 years ago. After a couple years of pruning and wiring it's starting to turn into a pretty nice little bonsai tree. Pic on the left was 2 yrs ago before I worked on it. Pic on right is today.

 

 

 

[Piker20 0]

Umm, can't open the pics on my laptop or on my phone. The jpg above your signature wont show either though so might be issues my end.

[Steeldrifter 0]

All ok on my end Colin, might be on your end?

[Piker20 0]

I'm logged on through a work network so I'll check when home.

[mikechell 0]

Sometimes, it's so easy to hate one's friends.

 

That's become I beautiful tree. I envy you and the time you have to keep up with your forestry.

 

But don't worry ... I'm not really a hater ... and more pictures of all the trees are always a highlight of my day !!!

[Piker20 0]

Works fine on home internet. Looks great Steve.

[Steeldrifter 0]

Spent a few hours at a bonsai show today and that you guys might enjoy seeing some of the pictures of some of the trees.

[Steeldrifter 0]

After being able to spend the day at the bonsai show with some guys that had 30+ yrs in the hobby I was able to really get a lot of good knowledge from them. So I took what we talked about today and applied it to my most recent tree that I just redid last week. Spent about 5 hrs opening it up, reducing foliage and wiring a lot more movement into the branches. Now once it starts back budding it should be a really nice tree in the next year or two.

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What it looked like after redoing some of it the other day.....

 

And now after applying what I learned today. Much more open to get the sun into the middle for back budding, and tons more movement wired into the branches.

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[mikechell 0]

Thank you, Steve. Those show trees are gorgeous. Of course, yours are, too. The only difference is, some of those trees are decades old. Yours will get there!!!

[Piker20 0]

I like the off second from bottom pic. Looks really good with the shape and moss on the trunk base.

[Steeldrifter 0]

 

One of my Bougainvillea trees I spent a bit of time on this afternoon between rod work. Been training this one into a windswept style.

[mikechell 0]

Strong lines on that one.

You might need to start thinking of names for your trees.

[Steeldrifter 0]

If that's the case then I should name this one Lazarus, because this is a pic of him just this past May

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[Steeldrifter 0]

 

Pic from today. Crazy how much this little guy has filled in with foliage in the past month since working on it. It's liking this heat wave we are having, unlike me!

[mikechell 0]

That's gorgeous! Excellent line!