Just about 4 months ago, this post chronicled the left half of this collected pyracantha dying over the course of a year or so, along with a virtual restyling. Here is an update; the tree is only half-dead, and isn’t half bad.
The problem:
The plan:
And the progress. While the wood ages into a dark gray color in time, I added some black ink to make it a bit easier on the eyes. This constant reminder was a little rough:
A few drops diluted into a teaspoon of water took that glare off nicely:
I have been studying bonsai since 1994, in an ever-increasing obsessive fashion. In our last 5 years prior to moving from Iowa to Alabama pursuing a career in the foodservice industry, my bonsai collection was limited to a few varieties that could survive brutal winters outside, or winters under dim light in the dank basement of our humble duplex...my wife puts up with a lot. Including the trailer hitch I put on our brown 1983 Chrysler New Yorker to pull a U-Haul full of trees to Nashville for a 3-month stop along the career path that led us to Alabama. 12 years later, we no longer have the New Yorker; and not a single one of those trees remain on my bench, having given the last holdout to a new club member this summer. I prefer collecting native trees and buying the classical species used in Japan, feeding organic, and reading everything I can get my hands on.
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