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Guest Post: Michael Hagedorn (Crataegus bonsai)
There’s bonsai ahead, and more writing—if, that is, I’m not nabbed by a trout.
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A 3 year visual journey of a +- 25yr old Podocarpus tree Air-layered and transformed into a Bunjin style bonsai.
11 April 2024, 11:52am – The separation of the Air-layer from the parent tree performed. The Air-layer was placed on the parent tree in late winter of 2023. As to the timing of the Air-layer placement and even down to the visual cues when slicing into the bark of the tree, these will tell you…
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Part 2 – Making the hard choices upfront.
When studying a progression image like this, your first thought should be to look for signs of continual development work. If this ‘tree,’ had a nice clean silhouette then you know the tree is not being developed to a high standard.
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Repotting a collected Liquid Amber.
You will find many actions we take in bonsai are not driven just by aesthetics like having a nice nebari but it’s also ‘rooted’ in horticulture, we don’t want to have a pot filled with large roots but with fine feeder roots.
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The importance of self critique.
The more we self critique, the better we can critique others.
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Have you mastered your own environment?
Each environment is unique and it is up to us as caretakers of these trees to know every square inch of it in order to best utilise it for our bonsai.
Fantastic root ball, must have been one of the easier repots!
Such aa valuable lesson for all. As usual Robs so well written. I really am enjoying reading your blogs.
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