Shohin Larch

This is the larch in Jan  2012

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This is the tree now , i haven't put the pot in the pic as it was just a training pot . Next year i will put it into something better.


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That's quite a transformation smithy, very nicely done.

Beautiful work !

wind swept larix… not something you see everyday.. works nicely without needles, but i'm curious how it'll look mid summer..

Thanks guys for the comments.

In the summer it will be just green on a trunk. I style my trees more for the winter image. I love to see the bare branches and i tend to do work work in the winter getting the branch structure right . I guess thats why i don't own junipers.

Smithy wrote:Thanks guys for the comments.

In the summer it will be just green on a trunk. I style my trees more for the winter image. I love to see the bare branches  and i tend to do work work in the winter getting the branch structure right . I guess thats why i don't own junipers.

I like your philosophy of bonsai because it is the same as mine.  

My compliments ,  

good job Smithy  

Best regards Daniel  

Sorry, but I don't like it:| 

Thanks Daniel.  

No problem Adam , we all like different things. 

I love it. It feels like I need to put on an anorak!

I like the winter image of your larch very much

Thanks Alain and Marco.

Smithy, this is one of the best "where the hell did that come from?!?!" transformations I've ever seen, and in such a short space of time.

I've seen the full sequence of progression photos you posted on another forum, and yet I STILL can't work out how you did it

Fantastic dramatic image