Beech Bonsai Progress

acstratten's avatarBonsai Iterate

I am super excited about the development of a beech I collected and shared with you two years ago. You can read about that, and see photos from the time of collection here. For a quicker reminder, here’s a photo from autumn 2018, just a half a year after being collected.

Beech in fall color, November 2018

So here’s the thing… I’m starting with a great piece of material. It’s not a “typical” bonsai form. In fact, I’m quite certain I would never grow a tree like this from scratch if I knew how. But I love it! It’s kinda wild, and rugged, and I don’t want to lose those qualities.

I am very grateful to have the help of Sergio Cuan in designing and refining this tree. We have worked on it together just twice, in November and this month (March), but I am excited in its progress…

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