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Creating a Large Arborvitae Group
Making a large forest planting by consolidating some old, large, collected trees and using an old, large pot that had been forgotten about. Many years ago I decided to make a large forest planting of collected American Beech tr...
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Making A Large Wheel-Thrown Custom Bonsai Pot
I thought I would do a progressive photo article on making a LARGE round pot. A few years ago I received a commission for a round pot that would be the biggest I had thrown on a wheel up to that point. The customer gave me the ...
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A Starter Azalea Bonsai…..Ten Years In The Making
This tale starts 10 years ago. I was doing a bonsai demo at a local county park office and when I was all done one viewer stayed to talk a while. It was his first viewing of anything bonsai related other than “Karate Kid&...
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Working on a San Jose Juniper that was Originally Styled by John Naka
This is a long story with quite a few pictures so please bear with me… Cheryl Manning was a headliner speaker during the 2002 ABS seminar in Milwaukee . During the convention she restyled a San Jose Juniper that she had s...
