This Ezo spruce (Picea jezoenis) belongs to Walter Pall. The hand built pot accentuates its natural look. The tree was originally collected in Hokkaido, Japan sometime before 1950 and is over 100 years old. The pot (Walter calls it a stone) is by Dietmar Popp.
Inventory today. To save time, we’ll borrow from May, 2015. After this, it’s onward into the New Year and plenty of new posts.
In addition to his bonsai, I like Walter Pall’s instructive step-by-step presentations. It’s like you’re standing there looking over his shoulder. Or in this case, Thomas’ shoulder. In Walter’s own words Thomas helped to get this on it’s way.
Continued below…
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A close up of the large sabamiki (hollow in the trunk) taken before the work shown here.
Walter put up 28 photos in all showing the work and results on this tree. We are presenting only a small fraction here and encourage you to visit Walter on facebook or even better, on his Bonsai Adventures blog.
Thomas working deadwood at the edge of the sabamiki with what looks like a Bosch diegrinder.
Working the deadwood in the back with a Dremel type tool.
You might notice the blackened wood. If we assume that it got that way by burning, can we also assume that this is a small blow torch?
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Treating the deadwood with lime sulfur.
Wiring it down into it's new tray.
Finished for now. Walter usually presents both black (at the top) and light grey backgrounds. Which do you prefer?
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