Adrian Bird Bonsai
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Adrian Bird Bonsai
4y ago
‘Time is a flat circle’.
The subject of this post is a juniper collected from the edge of a lake about 10 years back. Upon collection the trunk was straight as an arrow, its height over 2 metres, and folks thought I was mad to bother with such a straight up and down bean-pole.
Turns out I’d been searching for just such a broomstick for an idea I had bouncin’ about… I’d once seen a famous White Pine in Japan known as the ‘Infinity’ pine, and I desperately wanted to create my own version here in NZ. The Infinity pine had a beautiful trunk that flowed around and around forming the ‘prone’ f ..read more
Adrian Bird Bonsai
4y ago
‘Time is a flat circle’.
The subject of this post is a juniper collected from the edge of a lake about 10 years back. Upon collection the trunk was straight as an arrow, its height over 2 metres, and folks thought I was mad to bother with such a straight up and down bean-pole.
Turns out I’d been searching for just such a broomstick for an idea I had bouncin’ about… I’d once seen a famous White Pine in Japan known as the ‘Infinity’ pine, and I desperately wanted to create my own version here in NZ. The Infinity pine had a beautiful trunk that flowed around and around forming the ‘prone’ f ..read more
Adrian Bird Bonsai
4y ago
Below are a few images of some incredibly twisted pines that grow along the wild West Coast, serving up some fantastic inspiration for bonsai styling…
Windswept Ponderosa and Radiata pine on hilltop.
Old pines showing the unrelenting conditions of the west coast.
Twisty Ponderosa pine. Taipa walking underneath helping show the scale of these, some only 2 – 3 metres in height.
Superbly twisted Maritime pine (pinus pinaster).
Stunted radiata…
The radiata above had some incredible twists, shaped by the constant westerlies.
Mother Nature always comes up with the most intriguing twists…
An ..read more