Mar 7 2013

Warren Hill Bonsai Sale

As I have a respectable number of American followers, I thought I would share this post from the IBC Forum regarding the Sale of Warren Hill’s Bonsai. This was posted today by Willaim Valanvanis.

Warren Hill has had serious health problems and his bonsai will be sold on Saturday. Here is a message from Matt Berenberg:

ust a friendly reminder that due to health issues Warren Hill has authorized a sale of specimen trees, pre-bonsai and stock material at his Tree Haven School of Bonsai in Greenville, TN.
This sale is scheduled for this Saturday March 9th from 10 am till 6 pm.

All are welcome to attend.

This sale will include specimen material – one of a kind bonsai created by Warren during his 50+ years in bonsai, as well as stock material propagated and developed by Warren.
These are truly American bonsai masterpieces.

Images of some of the available Specimen trees can be seen on his web site:http://www.warrenhillbonsai.com/. Specimen trees include ponderosa pines, Japanese black pine , stewartia, wisteria, Chinese quince forest, Japanese and Trident maple forests and single tree specimens, hinoki forests, spruce forest on rock slab, hornbeam forests and single tree specimens, crepe myrtle, several outstanding root-over-rock specimens, and juniper specimens among others.

Stock trees including semi-styled and as well as untouched seed grown material are available. Trees on hand include: satsuki azaleas, Japanese maples, trident maples, root-over-rock material, boxwoods, shimpaku juniper, Tschi-Tschi gingko, tall Stewartia, pomegranate, princess persimmon, dwarf crepe myrtle, spruce, hinoki, hemlock, quince, cryptomeria, Caitlin elm, and Japanese and trident maple forests. This stock material can be used for upcoming workshops or grown and developed into future masterpieces.
Warren has spent the last decade propagating and developing this material and now it will be available to the public.

Don’t miss this opportunity to own a tree grown and developed by one of Americas premier bonsai artists and teachers.

If you edit a club newsletter, maintain bonsai friends e-mail list, know of bonsai collectors or clubs that may be interested please share this announcement.
If you cannot attend but have interest in owning one or more of these trees please contact Matt or Tim.

Terms:

All trees will be priced (A price list will be available the day of the sale)
Cash or check day of sale
prices will range from $25-$20,000

Info: Matt Berenberg —mattberenberg@yahoo.com
Tim Weckman —tj.weckman@yahoo.com

Dec 22 2012

Larch Group For Sale

I brought this Group of 3 larch in for a trim back yesterday. I had planned to split the group perhaps create a bigger scene, but trying to source extra trees with the same quality of bark and ramification has proved a chore. I have therefore decided to sell the group over the next few months. I have had my fun with it but want to give my time to other trees and projects. The 3 larch all came from the wild in Scotland and have great quality bark. The rock element in this landscape was collected from Lough Corrib and has great character. The pot is Walsall Ceramics.

Before trim

This was it with Autumn colour last Autumn.

Last Winter

Back in 1997 when I first put it together.

Back in 2000 when I tried it on slate for a while.

Close up of the Corrib Rock element.

If anyone is interested in buying this, just drop me an email bonsaieejit@gmail.com.

Nov 1 2012

Yellow Gingko

You’ve got to loove Gingko at this time of year 🙂

Oct 27 2012

Even More Pots

Susan, aka SusanFrancescaHunter.com was also a visitor to my home last night and she brought along a new selection of accent pots and her first batch of Bonsai pots. These have now been added to the Accent Pots for Sale Page and also a new page, Bonsai Pots for sale.

Here are a selection of my favourites.

Sep 4 2012

Yew Two

The second yew styled was also on the ‘to go’ bench. I can’t even remember where this one came from, possibly a club auction many years ago.

It had previous been styled by someone but not very well. It had also been very weak. It was now back to full health but the manufactured ‘s’ bend on the trunk was terrible to look at and the foliage was far removed from the best feature, the base of the tree. I wanted to bring the two together to make a more compact and interesting tree.

This the after image. I applied raffia to the upper trunk and bent it down making more convincing movement bringing all the areas of interest closer the the best part of the tree, the lower trunk. The jin to the left needs to be reduced but is currently acting as a wire anchor point. With some back budding and a little more refinement, this is going to be a rather nice tree with interesting trunk movement. The jin can be extended into a shari down into the lower trunk making a nice feature and perhaps even extended along the upper trunk to link up with the small jin there.

Sep 3 2012

Yew One

I have had a couple of yews sitting on the raw material bench for a while. Again I had these for sale in case a beginner wanted to start with a piece of raw material. As I previously stated, I am clearing out and figured that these won’t go anywhere as they are now. I decided to do the initial styling and look to move then on next year.

Here is the first one.

It’s an old tree and was void of branches down one side of the tree. I decided to add a shari and shape the image around this feature . This is it when I was completed. With another years growth this should make a nice image. Some further carving will be required once the wood dries out.

Mar 28 2012

Field Maple

This is one of the trees I have on the For Sale List this year. It’s a Acer Campestre or Field Maple. It was repotted this year after it’s first wiring. I had been doing a lot of clip and grow for a few years to prepare it for wiring. It has just come out in leaf and I thought I’d share.