A Japanese white pine after it was wired by John Milton. The before photo is below.
The title Paradise Found is a reference to John Milton’s famous poem Paradise Lost (famous at least on college campuses, if nowhere else).
Now we have another John Milton who writes that he’s “currently following (his) dreams and studying as an apprentice at Aichi-en in Nagoya, Japan under Junichiro Tanaka-San” (in addition to the John Milton Paradise connection, the Aichi-en apprenticeship connects nicely with our last post as do the Japanese white pine before and after photos).
What I really wanted to show you in this post is John’s detailed grafting job on a Japanese maple. However, there were no lead-worthy photos of the maple, so I decided to throw in a Japanese white pine before and after (actually after and before). You can consider it a worthwhile bonus, but the real meat is the grafting lesson.
We’ll only show you three grafting photos (out of 14). This is to encourage you to visit John’s blog for the whole series.
A Japanese mountain maple (Yamamomiji). The parent tree leaves are too large and the internodes are too far apart. The smaller leaves are Siegen (a Japanese maple cultivar) from grafts that were done earlier and have already taken.
An approach graft is in place. John defoliated the whole tree before grafting.
All four grafts are completed. You can visit John's blog if you'd like to see the whole series of grafting photos.
Here's what the Japanese white pine at the top of the post looked like before John wired it.
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Actually, it is a reference to John Milton’s poem, Paradise Found.
Milton himself wrote the sequal to his own poem, Paradise Lost.
Like so many sequels, it was not nearly as good. It was derivative, obviously. But in addition to that, it is rather repetitive just within itself.
Thanks Ceolaf,
Guess it’s pretty obvious that I haven’t been hanging around any college campuses lately.