My mate Stephen brought this Elm along last night to get the layer removed. He would have done it himself but I have a nice fine tooth saw 🙂 You can see the layer being applied in the original post below.

ORIGINAL POST

As you can see the tree has grown well since then.

On removal of the black plastic and cling film, we were delighted to see a profusion of new roots within the moss.

After a quick swish of my saw…

Now the contrived apex has been removed, Stephen will be concentrating on developing a new apex in a more natural form to suit the tree. The air layer itself is going to make a lovely little semi cascade. I’ll keep you updated here with how it goes.

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Just had a good look around my trees today and everyone that had decent looking moss has been demolished!! Me thinks this fella has had a part to play in it!! Grr!!

Sorry for the glare on the photo, it was taken through a window.

This little Juniper has been in my collection for many years. Last year it became weak due to it being very pot bound. I transferred it into this larger pot and changed the angle. All I was hoping for was an increase in foliage and health and it looks like this has been achieved. Today I pinched it out to retain the shape until a proper restyle at it’s new angle next year.

Sorry about the blurred photo, I should be ashamed of myself!

and after pinching

Heading out the door to Windsor Park to watch N.Ireland Vs Faroe Islands.

Surely to goodness we can score tonight!!

UPDATE 11/8/11: Northern Ireland 4 Faroe Islands 0

I gave my Scottie Pine a bit of a tidy up today. It was slower to bud after the repot this year but is looking great now. It still needs a few tweaks here and there with the next rewiring but for the moment it is back budding nicely and seems to be in great health.

The history of this tree can be viewed HERE.

and the tree today.

I decided that my Juniperus Rigeda or ‘Tosho’ as they call them in Japan, needed a trim today. I had planned to leave it as long as possible after getting advice from Peter Snart. Extension allows the wood to lignify and therefore be capable to hold it’s own weight of foliage. What I wasn’t expecting was the vigorous growth it put out over the last 2 months. This has stiffened the branches in the required places and I decided to plough ahead.

I had read the Tosho 1&2 posts on Peter Tea’s blog last night and found these very interesting. Peter has recently moved his blog over to WordPress. This can be viewed here http://peterteabonsai.wordpress.com/

Here’s my Tosho before trimming.

and this is it after shortening of some shoots. A few have been left long and many of the new buds have remained un-pinched to get the desired growth.