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
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This is me tasting my wife’s beverage. 20130626-105414.jpg
A super short shohin banyan green island ficus
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A sketch
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I rescued an abandoned kitten
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Ficus root base
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Wiring a ficus
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Dave. It’s amazing what photoshop can accomplish 20130628-093952.jpg
A meme I made
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Guaracha, Dave and I taking down the pool
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Tony’s ficus microcarpa that he collected and grew everything on it
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Steve in front of Mikes tree at Epcot
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Epcot
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Shaving brush tree flower
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Podocarpus deadwood I carved
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Some faces and masks I carved
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Another view of Epcot
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Domino, our rescued kitten
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Sketch
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Portulacaria afra
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Me being fierce 20130710-152038.jpg
Hackberry
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Acer rubrum. Red maple
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Artfully staged shot
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Its Miller time!
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Shoo fly
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Big ilex
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T-shirt design
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Ficus salicaria
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Sketch
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Florida privet
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Another fl. Privet
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Big ol’ bougie
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Continuing on: birds eye view of ficus microcarpa
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Same ficus in its new pot
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A forbidden tree. Brazilian pepper
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Sketch of same tree
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Juniper chinensis. One front
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Same juniper a slightly different front
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Singing in the rain
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Another juniper
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And a sketch of same
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Several sketches of a neea buxifolia and then the actual neea and the final sketch
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I think it’s got my finger
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A gopher tortoise
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A big ficus microcarpa
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My armory
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It was a battle, but I won
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Sketch of the above ficus
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It was a super party at the Bratz house
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Little ilex schillings
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Sketch
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My sons 8 bit Sparky
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A buttonwood popping a wheelie
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Another buttonwood
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Sketch of same
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Wheelie popping buttonwood rear. Looks like a stag or unicorn head
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Front of the same
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Storm clouds
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Buttonwood bench
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      1. 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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  1. 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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    1. 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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