11 inch Kishu Grafted on Sierra

[yenling83]

Sharing a little Sierra juniper grafted with Kishu planted on an Ibigawa stone. I collected the tree several years ago and originally started working with the native foliage, but eventually decided it felt too big. The stone is one I bought in Japan at Aichi-En as a pool stone which holds water. One day I showed it to Peter Tea who flipped it upside down and said, "it would be cool if you planted a tree on this." The tree itself is 11inches tall, had some spider mite issues last year, but is now recovering-looking a bit more yellow than i'd like-but i'm confident it will green up in the future. Currently planning to plant either a dwarf manzanita or tiny dwarf japanese rose in the back right hand side. It's currently in a Jim Gremel Suiban, it will look better with moss on the soil surface.

 

[Hartinez]

Beautiful image Jeremiah.

 

[pandacular]

Needs a little ferryman figurine below the stone!

 

[PaulH]

I love it! Just my size too. I'm finding that, in my 70s, my big trees are getting hard to deal with. I've sold a few big ones to Peter and my big sierra I grafted with kishu to Bonsai Mike. I've got a sierra about this size I'm putting itoigawa on.

 

[Shogun610]

Great composition

 

[Colorado]

Wow, great work! The canopy and branching is so full and beautiful. Love it!

 

[yenling83]

I love it! Just my size too. I'm finding that, in my 70s, my big trees are getting hard to deal with. I've sold a few big ones to Peter and my big sierra I grafted with kishu to Bonsai Mike. I've got a sierra about this size I'm putting itoigawa on.

I've admired those big trees of yours in his garden, they are very nice but also yes super heavy! I'm sure i'll trade down in size at a certain point

 

[hemmy]

Amazing how much bigger and powerful the trunk looks with the finer, tighter foliage. Great work!

 

[Kanorin]

Very nice! I’d be curious how it would look with the stone + tree off centered so it was 60% or so more to the right side of that suiban.

 

[Nybonsai12]

Fantastic. The foliage, the live vein, the dead wood, the rock. all of it.

 

[Ruddigger]

I wouldnt change a thing about this tree. I do find that Kishu is way more prone to spider mites than Itoigawa is, but I love the foliage, so l deal with it.

 

[River's Edge]

I wouldnt change a thing about this tree. I do find that Kishu is way more prone to spider mites than Itoigawa is, but I love the foliage, so l deal with it.

I have found Abimectin very effective for spider mites. You may wish to check it out.

 

[yenling83]

Very nice! I’d be curious how it would look with the stone + tree off centered so it was 60% or so more to the right side of that suiban.

Good suggestion, i'll try!

 

[yenling83]

I wouldnt change a thing about this tree. I do find that Kishu is way more prone to spider mites than Itoigawa is, but I love the foliage, so l deal with it.

Yes, I find the same. I'll have a Kishu, Itoigawa and Sierra right next to each other and the Kishu is the only one that get's spider mites. Thanks @Ruddigger