Post Your Weeping Tree

[Forsoothe!]

You can't kill a fig by killing some branches, so worse case, it goes back to a literati. Best case? It leafs out in my weeping form and I'm invited to Japan by the Emperor, I get to spend a week in touring Japan and being fêted by Masters and asked to create one like it for the Nation Exhibit. Or, I wake up.

 

[leatherback]

Aaahhh.. I misunderstood. I thought this was a thread about trees that make you weep!

 

[leatherback]

Tamarix with morning dew...

That is just gorgeous. Wishing such a future for mine..

 

[Forsoothe!]

Update city. Ta-a-a Dah!

Complete failure. Here, now semi-recovered. Below, as in death of almost all the wired branches.

My incompetence or some things a Fig just won't do?

 

[Underdog]

Bld Cypress and Willow Leaf Ficus. Neither like weeping much and spring back up given the chance,

 

[penumbra]

Update city. Ta-a-a Dah!
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Complete failure. Here, now semi-recovered. Below, as in death of almost all the wired branches.
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My incompetence or some things a Fig just won't do?

That is really a shame as you did a great job(IMO) wiring it.

 

[Forsoothe!]

Yes, they can say, "He killed trees well."

 

[penumbra]

First, I apologize for the atrocious pictures. Messed my foot up a bit and just going out to take these pictures was a bit of an effort. Secondly, I apologize for the fact that this bonsai is just at the very beginning of its training as a weeping tree. Very soon I will be rewiring it and changing the guys and weights. When I do I will get some decent pictures. This is a 30 year old Korean Hornbeam. I used some fishing sinkers this summer to drop the branches and those branches are doing very well. It needs a ton of work, obviously. I just wanted to add it to the list. Honestly, I don't know what I am going to get, but I know what I am looking for.

 

[Adair M]

This is not a “weeping tree”, but it looks like one.



It’s a Mino Yatsabusa Trident Maple.

The shape of the leaves, and the long petiole of the leaves make it look like a weeping tree.

Here’s the winter image:

 

[ABCarve]

Rosemary

 

[penumbra]

Rosemary

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Stunning bonsai and brilliant presentation.
How long did it take to grow it out like that?

 

[Forsoothe!]

So, that's the best you can do?

 

[penumbra]

So, that's the best you can do?

Is this directed to everyone or one in particular?
I am sure we would all love to see what you have other than your failed attempt with the ficus.

 

[Forsoothe!]

It was a humorous remark. I'm star-struck by the beauty of it. If that's not obviously a beautiful example of making a great bonsai out of a un-bonsai species, I don't know what is. Lighten up. Have a nice day.

 

[penumbra]

It was a humorous remark. I'm star-struck by the beauty of it. If that's not obviously a beautiful example of making a great bonsai out of a un-bonsai species, I don't know what is. Lighten up. Have a nice day.

So I see now you are talking about the rosemary. There was no allusion to that plant so the humorous remark failed on me.
If I was any lighter I would be floating.

 

[ABCarve]

Stunning bonsai and brilliant presentation.
How long did it take to grow it out like that?

Thank you! This is from a small cutting my mother gave me around 1990.

 

[penumbra]

Thank you! This is from a small cutting my mother gave me around 1990.

I f you have any tips on this please share. We live in similar climates.

 

[ABCarve]

I f you have any tips on this please share. We live in similar climates.

I call this the “Cleopatra Rosemary “ as the stand is the only way for two people to carry it. Note the 4 handles. This tree has its own thread for the ins and outs of growing.
Thread 'The Rosemary Thread'
https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/the-rosemary-thread.13259/

 

[thomas22]

I just styled this Duranta a few weeks ago.

 

[Mikecheck123]

This is a dwarf s. Babylonica I just picked up from Evergreen Garden Works. Haven't done anything with it yet, but it's quite striking.