No major changes so far. This yew had a realy good growing-season, hence the amount of   adventious-buds for back-budding next spring. The height of this tree is about 25 cm. The future layout of the height will  not expand over 28 cm. I am looking for a pot for this particular Taxus baccata.  The next Trophy in Genk/Belgium will bring up a good opportunity to find something suitable ..read more

 ... as raw-material of course. Two years ago i visited a nursery in a suburb of my home-town.  A small Taxus baccata laid aside a road on the nursery-yard, wich had obviously been run over by a  tractor or such. The little tree was in a very poor state, but i thought, what a pitty, one should try to develop something out of almost less than nothing. As i asked the manager to buy this unlucky specimen, he looked at me in the most  compassionated way and said : "Well Sir, its a gift ... ." Maybe this man considered me for being an absolut mad-man (or rather an utter fool), b ..read more

And again a tree, wich I considered to be too dense. This was okay so far, since the tree gained a lot of energy because of its large amount of green-mass. But then comes the time to "destill" a kind of essence of the tree's character. Now I will start again to lead the growing-energy to the right spoots within the trees-System. Sometimes things has to become worse before getting better ... Do not be disappointed when comparing the pistures of May '23 to nowerdays state of development. In the long run, this concept of reducing to the max will be rewarding ..read more

My designing-aim on this one had been:  1) developing the green-mass closer to the trunc  2) creating a domeshaped apex and 3) defining the leaf-pads ... I am satisfied with this state of  design so far ... Pictures as of today ... Maybe you know this picture already, as of January 2021 ..read more

 Further development of one of my Juniperus Squamata (meyeri or blue star variaty). The very beginning of this particular designing-journey had been not that easy for me. Didn`t know what to do with the raw-material, but once you start to find the truncline and do some  structural wiring such a project turns out clearer and clearer. pictures as of today, with different front-views ... wich one do you like best ..read more

 What would you do with this taxus baccata?  It is not that type of raw-material you would prefer, is it? ... Howsoever, here is a picture before the designing-session: The first stage as an pre-bonsai : And the overblende view of "before and after"-pictures  ..read more

Today I found some time to bring on the design of this Taxus a little bit more anhead . I slightly "condensed" the tree a bit. After putting off the last year's wiring, the tree looked really wired.  So normaly sheduled work on this particular yew. I now like the design better.  ..read more

 Bought this one during the last trophy in Genk/Belgium from the stand of Danny Use. A lot of backbudding ist going on this tree. The branches are much too long by now, but hencing the  backbudding by producing alot of energy for this Taxus. They will be shortened  lately in upcoming  spring. Looking foreward for doing a little carving here and there, especially on the scars of cut branches and  so on. This particular tree had been very well prepared for further development. Thank you Danny ..read more

 Phase one: The accquired raw-material in 2021... Phase two: "cutting out" the trunc-line, reducing the greenmass... Phase three as of  2022: further refinement, reduction after a good growing-saeson ... Phase four as of January 2023: First styling ... Phase five: Second styling, the tree as of today. Amd the overblended picture as I showed it before to demonstrate the ration of reduction from the former rawplant to the actual state of development ..read more

 Accordingly to the this post` title: pictures of thi Hinoke obtusa nana. She really is strong and healthy. Frm now on, there be just clipp n' grow on this Prebonsai ..read more