Thank you for welcoming my wife and I this past weekend. Looking forward to growing my black pine we purchased, and learning more from your online U. Wonderful garden I was honored to see first hand. Thanks!
Remarkable trio of trees. What an honor and a challenge - and what trust the owner has in you! - to style a legacy Diazon Iwasaki white pine. So glad you had been gifted the spirit of his guidance! It was meant to be.
I can't imagine what it must feel like working on such impresive trees, I get a feeling of reverence working on my 5 year old bonsai, this must feel otherworldly. I admire your work a lot.
Tobias didnt seem too happy to see that branch go!! I can imagine the previous conversation: Bjorn: "let's cut the directional branch" - Tobias: "Over my dead corpse!!" :) The tree looks stunning now!!
Thanks for another great demo. Big cuts and a beautiful rebalancing of a beautiful specimen. Perspective reveals powerful result. Minimal simplicity with natural effect. Nice work gentlemen.
Hi Bjorn, you improved this pine immensely. I do see that there's an ugly grafted area on the trunk that was previously hidden by the low branch and is now much more visible. What are your thoughts on that?
That was a gift! Or......probably just what he tells his wife 🤣 AMAZING TREE! . I have a few brussels trees in my collection and they are all superb condition trees. Great job guys
Love your content always Bjorn.. I think you’re well on your way coming into your own here in US .. I prefer you better stylistically , personality , esthetic etc.
Have you consider telling about the age of the tree’s that you are presenting ? That has always been a curiosity for me when I look at a bonsai tree. The endurance amazes me. Anyhow, I tough that could be a fun fact to be added ☺️ Beautiful garden 💚
Are you planning on doing any further work to the branch you just jinned (burn, lime suflur mixed with ink)? I have a small mugo that I am going to jin some branches on this fall.
I have the Takasago - An book on loan with me and 5 needle pines are my favorite plants, looks much improved and in line with Iwasaki Daizo style. Is this a Himekomatsu white pine or Miyajima?
It's funny you know, there are no trees that look like that in nature. Most bonsai imo look like trees we would draw on a piece of paper, or we see in cartoons/animation. I've never seen a tree like these bonsai in nature. Go look and see for yourself, take a drive anywhere and you'll se most trees are scraggly uneven natural chaos masterpieces, or they will often be just straight up symmetrical beauties as in the case of some pines and conifers.
There are different styles. In Japanese gardens you’ll see plants inspired by clouds or mountains and other things in nature, not necessarily trees. This one is more traditional like that. Walter Pall or Ryan Neil do more natural bonsai where it’s supposed to look like an ancient tree. In the US we’re lucky to have Eisei-en and Mirai to show the whole range of what you can do.
