Originally posted on Nebari Bonsai:
This cultivar, ‘hachi gen’ is on its own roots, and is a flaky bark corker, as contrasted with the winged corkers. These two facts make creeping moss a mortal enemy. So with an hour to sit with the patient mindset necessary for this tedious chore, I and my tweezers got to work on this Shohin-sized JBP. Mossy encroachment And after… Continue reading Late summer cleanup on a corkbark black pine

Originally posted on Michael Hagedorn:
Apologies for the appropriation from David Guterson’s novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, but his suggestive title was roughly what I was attempting with this styling: When there’s enough of it, snow is heavy, and transforms that beneath it.  This is a Yellow Cedar, Cupressus nootkatensis; a good sized tree, nearly 3′ across. The branches were long and flexible and there was… Continue reading Snow Falling On A Yellow Cedar-