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 trees that I had removed from [...]
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 INSIDE diameter and depth [...]
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”. It seems he was a [...]
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 shipped from California . She [...]
