Trevor Smith frequently helps me when I have some styling to do. Trevor has worked with me for many years and is a fine Bonsai artist in his own right. Based in Blackpool he is one of England's up and coming young Masters. Trevor is seen in some of my books where we have worked together on various projects. Today Trevor brought along an interesting little pine. With a very old trunk, this pine had grown long leggy branches which seemed to die off and then new ones grew from the very old trunk. This happens in nature where the tree is in dense undergrowth and can not get up enough steam to develop beyond the first stages. It had been a good tree at some stage but the undergrowth around it had stopped further development until Trevor collected this.

We used Petflex to stop the branches from splitting or breaking when bent. We have used copper wire for all the styling as it is stringer for this kind of extreme bending work.

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