The story of a Japanese Yew (Part three)
The final part of this series will bring us right up to date with the latest styling carried out at the beginning of 2023.
The story of a Japanese Yew (Part two)
The tree continues to develop and make good progress but at the tree’s own pace. In extending the deadwood areas and reducing the live veins I follow the tree. The tree has initiated this process rather than me trying to impose changes just for the sake of it. The story of this tree will be […]
The story of a Japanese Yew (Part One)
This is the story of a Japanese Yew (Taxus Cuspidata). I think I have told this story once before in my blog but for this new version I have unearthed some previously unseen early photographs whilst the story is brought up to date to a recent styling in February 2023. Quite a transformation and now […]
Rob’s Juniper with amazing deadwood.
We will now persevere with the foliage to try and get it denser and more compact. At least we now have a good foliage canopy to match the impressive deadwood. There is potential here to create a really good tree. I will keep you posted and if we do feel the need to resort to […]
John’s Juniper – Now we can see the tree!
We now just need to let the tree grow and recover from the work we have undertaken. Once we have strong extended growth then we can start to prune the canopy and make the foliage mass even more compact. My student John is doing a good job with this tree and hopefully is now beginning […]
Students trees – a little autumn pruning
A small selection of just some of the trees which have been brought to classes for some autumn pruning.
Frank’s Trident maple stump
It has been quite a journey with this tree and I have been happy to be involved and helping Frank whenever the tree has been brought to a workshop. At long last we are beginning to arrive at our destination. Its taken a long time to get to where we are today with this tree […]
A sad farewell…..
Just said goodbye to these three trees. I hope the new owner gets as much pleasure from them as I have enjoyed. As you can see they have certainly changed while I have had them. Another two trees due to leave my collection soon. I won’t have many left but I will have a lot […]