Missing In Action
Posted by Robert Kempinski on Jan 17 2012
Wow, has it been August since my last blog post. Have to get cracking and post a bit more – lots have been happening in the bonsai world for me.
Here is a tree I recently collected from a bonsai nursery that went fallow in 1994. A batch of trees were in nursery pots and over the years they grew into the ground and consumed the plastic pots they were in. Some trees thrived and dropped new roots, others were blown over and made interesting natural designs and some perished by neglect. Three of us volunteered to help the owner dig them out, and as a result she gave us workers a pick of the trees.
This is what one side of the area to be dug out looked like prior to the work.
Donn
Donnie in the Jungle.
Donnie and I formulate a plan – Donnie and Reggie dig, I repot.
Repotting – getting ingrown plastic from the nursery pots out of the root mass was a pain. On the bright side, I got to do initial rough styling on 56 different trees – that was a blast.
Here they are digging out one of the last trees.
Reggie, Donnie and I after the work. We were all sore for a few days after that work load.
The tree I selected – a natural raft Chinese Sweet Plum.
There is a virtual design competition on the IBC for potential design for this tree.
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