Yamadori Pine-Before

After Styling

Back needles

Cut needles

Wiring

Shari detail

The completed image.

This is the back

Peter cleans up the jin

Yamadori Larch-larix decidua

After styling

Before work

Styling ideas

The surface root structure

Marianne and Erik (the owner)

Showing the twin trunks from the side

The completed tree

Another front?

The team

2 year old needles to be removed

Better to cut than pull as pulling causes wounding and can weken the tree and attract aphids

I wired the tree for almost 8 hours prior to the demo

Here the team of Mariane and Peter complete the initial wiring

The needles were a little small and suggested that the tree might still be a little weak so rather than make a literati I kept everything until the tree was healthier

Later on in two years perhaps, we can remove sopme of the branches and refine the inage to a Literati-but not right now.

Peter, who bought this tree from the famous Danny Use Gingko Bonsai Nursery was very happy with the first styling

The tree has two trunks and while we could make a twin trunk image, the smaller trunk was a good alternative

The huge nebari was a good feature but required a long pot

I needed some asistance in the wiring

While tis is a nice image I had to later cut hard into the tree to generate the new buds prior to summer. This was a late spring styling. Still, This shows the trees potential.

I am known for trying to make a Bonsai look nice all the way around. I think this worked.