Le giornate da Nicola sono sempre troppo poche nell’arco di un anno e soprattutto passano sempre troppo velocemente, perciò la vera difficoltà sta nel scegliere le piante da lavorare. Ne porti 4, in realtà vorresti portarti dietro l’intero bancale !!
Scartate quindi quelle troppo avanti e quelle da lavorare a fine estate, per questa giornata mi sono caricato in macchina un ginepro da filare, una tasso non facile da “decifrare” e cui dare la prima impostazione, due ginepri “pali” che vorrei assemblare in un’unica composizione , il boschetto di faggi da rinvasare, il silvestre ed un chubay da rinvasare…. Insomma pur imponendomi di portarne meno, anche stavolta sono stato troppo ottimista e le ultime due hanno fatto il viaggetto andata e ritorno da Nicola 😦 .
Comunque sia, arrivato, scaricato piante ed attrezzi ed essermi goduto per qualche minuti il giardino, con Nicola “attacchiamo”subito il ginepro. È parecchio che non…

Our Winter Seasonals featured new trees, lots of repotting, a few odd projects, and fresh new faces- enjoy our photo gallery!

Potting a bunjin Ponderosa that was styled in a Seasonal last fall. Clockwise from left: Ben, me (or perhaps tree), Ron, Howard.

Bobby with the challenging job of holding a tree while the rest of us hoot and jeer. Bobby’s a Portland Timbers fan. Naturally.

Expressive wand technique by Ron-

Howard enjoying lubricating the drill bit…and getting me wet. In a new twist of the Tom Sawyer tale, I sold the task of drilling the hole to someone else…

Working on a Hinoki forest. The next two photos are of this same tree-

Our hinoki forest as it was found, grown together for more than 10 years, with nearly equal sized trunks and nearly equal spacing. That was our starting puzzle. With only one small hinoki we could add… (because…

Utah Juniper (aka “Big Sexy”)

Now that I have settled back in California, it’s time to rebuild my Bonsai collection!  For the past 6 months, I have been slowly rebuilding the Bonsai business I left behind and have worked with many terrific people.  I have study groups that have formed throughout California and even in other States!  You can say that I’m living the Bonsai dream!  I hope to play my part in helping the promotion of bonsai in the United States and get good information out there to those that want it.  My other goal is also to build a quality bonsai collection for myself and not just enjoy the final development of the trees, but the journey as well.

That brings us to the tree that you see below, known by some (mainly the collectors) as, “Big Sexy.”  There is no doubt that this tree is big, though I didn’t buy it just for the size…