Larches in training by Francois Jeker.Traveling again, so we’ll delve back into our archives. This one draws on material from three different posts.
Larches are easy to grow (especially if you live in the north), easy to train and are naturally attractive trees. If you start with decent stock and you have some grasp of design and technique, you can end up with the kind of results you see above.
This is not to say each tree couldn’t have been styled differently as they certainly could have. Give the same potential bonsai to five different bonsai artists and you’ll end up with five different trees.
This towering Tamarack is too tall for the photo, so the top and a tiny piece of the bottom of the pot are missing. It belongs to Suthin Sukosolvisit and is from a post we did back in February of this year. Tamarack is a local name for the American larch (Larix laricina). Suthin identifies it only as 'larch,' a genus of trees that numbers about twelve species; so Tamarack is a guess based on geography.
Inspiration for your bonsai. Here's something from a post we did back in April, 2010. The photo originally came from Bonsaimania.
If you'd like to dig into aesthetics and techniques for superior bonsai, check out Francois Jeker's excellent books. You can also visit his website.
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