collected maine larch

just got this larch can't wait till work the tree. i got a design im mind but haven't draw it out yet or done a photoshop pic yet. Any comments???

Hello Andre,
You will have fun.
I do not know your winter conditions thus
when you go outside, keep your hands in your pocket,
but you do not have to wait that long, larches are one of the earliest to repot
and some branch pruning around that time is possible as well.
In the main time think about a future design, something that will be not that difficult i think with such a nice tree.
Examining of the nerbari will have to tell a bit to.
Sunip

thats why i love to grow larches i would say most of my bonsai are larches

Lovely tree Andre! It looks too heavy for your black bench ... better send it down here to me! Where did you find this specimen?
Todd

Killer material. I love Larches, but Larches won't grow here in the deep south, obviously, and I was recently at a David Easterbrook lecture and demo on literati larches in Pennsylvania, where, even there, because of warming trends, they're having some trouble with decline. 30% Shade cloth was recomended. have fun with that one dre, I'm seeing something a little literati in there myself...
Ryan
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Very nice tree. When was it collected?

Great looking larch. What is its source?

todd that is not where that tree sits it just where i took the picture at and bought from a good friend who collects them in maine

ryan ya nick lenz said to me once larches don't belong any where past new york. and literati the tree has more potential then that

vance spring of 2010 is when is was collected

crust bog in maine

That's a great looking larch, I don't own a larch but now I'm gonn a go looking

Nice material with lots of potential. Hopefully Pavel will chime in as he makes some nice designs with larches.....it looks like you could tilt it to the left to bring out the curvature and make the lower deadwood section a focal point?
Cheers Graham

graham ya the deadwood is the focal point and there are so many possibilities but truth be told i have Owen Reich coming to my garden while he is back in the states and the larch is what we will me working on.

That's a literati alright. can you post other sides?

to do a literati style with this tree is the easy way out with all the possibilities this tree has to offer it can be so much more than that ill take a picture of the other side as soon as possible

here shots of the other side as requested


now do you see the tree has so much more to offer that a literati

Hello Andre,
Only a quick virtual close to the tree as it is now,
as a first possible step, and to start others of?
Not that easy as the first picture suggested to me, because of the direction of the big yn.
Sunip

Ryan B wrote:Larches won't grow here in the deep south, obviously, and I was recently at a David Easterbrook lecture and demo on literati larches in Pennsylvania, where, even there, because of warming trends, they're having some trouble with decline.

Somebody else in a warm climate wanted a larch. We recommended golden larch, Pseudolarix amabilis, which tolerates down to Zone 9.
Iris

Not sure if it would lean over this far but...what the heck, it was fun.

That is a really cool and interesting design I'm actually working on this tree with Owen while he is in the states I was able to book a date

One more option:

that one is even better than the last one this one show age and a very ruff life. good one

heres an update on the tree after the first styling still a was way

Sweet tree Dre, you have some great material.

thank you tmmason now i can't wait for it to grow out from the styling and next spring will go into this real nice dale pot i got from him