Before you look at the after picture below, consider this: you are visiting Aichi-En Bonsai Nursery in Japan for two weeks and you're tasked with wiring and styling this Japanese white pine. What would you do?
The photos shown here are from Jeremiah Lee’s Yenling Bonsai Blog. In Jerimiah’s own words… “Over the past two weeks I did a visiting apprenticeship at Aichi-En Bonsai Nursery in Nagoya, Japan. Nothing but eat, sleep and Bonsai for two weeks.”
Jerimiah goes on to say… “With this tree I’m going to show a useful technique I learned for creating a good anchor point for guy wire.”
Enough said. The rest is up to you. You could challenge yourself by thinking about what you would do (maybe even make a drawing and send it to us) or you could take the easy path and just scroll down.
Either way, I encourage you to visit Yenling Bonsai and perhaps learn a new technique for anchoring guy wire and a whole lot more.
Here's a little hint for anchoring guy wire.
Copper wire on a magnetic hook that Jeremiah likes... "To make it convenient, sometimes they used magnetic hooks to have the wire next to you while you're working. It was nice that you could put them anywhere you needed. I ended up buying some to bring back home with me."
And here's some copper wire that Jeremiah put to good use (I cropped the photo to avoid giving away anything about styling).
The photos above are a small sampling of the photos Jeremiah uses to illustrate the before to after process.
After. Far from finished (I know, I know), but well on its way.
You need annealed copper wire for the real tough jobs
Especially on stubborn old conifers
New, made in the U.S. copper bonsai wire on special at Stone Lantern