It’s been so long since I’ve added pictures to the blog I can’t remember where I’ve left off. If I repeat one I apologize.
This is a carving on a golden dew drop by Stacy Allen Muse at Epcot

This is me tasting my wife’s beverage. 
A super short shohin banyan green island ficus

A sketch

I rescued an abandoned kitten

Ficus root base

Wiring a ficus

Dave. It’s amazing what photoshop can accomplish 
A meme I made

Guaracha, Dave and I taking down the pool

Tony’s ficus microcarpa that he collected and grew everything on it

Steve in front of Mikes tree at Epcot

Epcot

Shaving brush tree flower

Podocarpus deadwood I carved

Some faces and masks I carved

Another view of Epcot

Domino, our rescued kitten

Sketch

Portulacaria afra

Me being fierce 
Hackberry

Acer rubrum. Red maple

Artfully staged shot

Its Miller time!

Shoo fly

Big ilex

T-shirt design

Ficus salicaria

Sketch

Florida privet

Another fl. Privet

Big ol’ bougie

Continuing on: birds eye view of ficus microcarpa

Same ficus in its new pot

A forbidden tree. Brazilian pepper

Sketch of same tree

Juniper chinensis. One front

Same juniper a slightly different front

Singing in the rain

Another juniper

And a sketch of same

Several sketches of a neea buxifolia and then the actual neea and the final sketch






I think it’s got my finger

A gopher tortoise

A big ficus microcarpa

My armory

It was a battle, but I won

Sketch of the above ficus

It was a super party at the Bratz house

Little ilex schillings

Sketch

My sons 8 bit Sparky

A buttonwood popping a wheelie

Another buttonwood

Sketch of same

Wheelie popping buttonwood rear. Looks like a stag or unicorn head

Front of the same

Storm clouds

Buttonwood bench

I’m totally stealing the meme. Will credit appropriately, though, so I guess it’s not stealing….
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Please share, that’s why I made it!
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Done did. Credit and link back to your blog from mine 🙂 Probably throw it on Facebook too, because it makes me giggle.
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What is your blogs address?
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http://tractortracks.blogspot.com/ where you can read all about the random crap that pops into my brain. Honestly the best stuff is back at the beginning when I had a lot of time to write, and everybody hadn’t heard all my best stories yet!
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Love the potted trees.
I’ve been working on some ginseng ficus, one about 12 years old, and a 7 year old clipping (clone).
The clone was a clipping from a trimming session, I put a large piece that I couldn’t see myself tossing away. So I put some rooting hormone on the cut placed it in a flower vase and water for 5 years, when I potted it I held 1/3 of the root system above the mix. It has a heavy 3 foot trunk with just a few small branches.
I have a question, I want to split the trunk and braid it without splitting through the top. Do you have any advice on the split?
Thank you, Matt.
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Well Matt, that’s not something we do in bonsai usually but I would wrap the sections tightly in raffia (get it at a crafts store, soak it in water before you wrap) just to help the split ends heal and to give strength to the wood so it doesn’t break when you braid. The raffia will rot away after a while and you can pick it out later.
Good luck
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wow this is awesome work.
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Thanks Peter
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