Compacting apex repost of blog

[eliass]

Thought I would repost the following... God knows it's something I struggle with..

http://crataegus.com/2013/11/01/compact ... hite-pine/

Not my blog hope that's ok !

[kcpoole]

this is from one the Blogs I follow regularly.

Very nice work, and quite in the style of what I do to Junipers to reduce them fromn sticks to something approaching a decent tree.
My shohin comp tree here viewtopic.php?f=148&t=15049&p=154025

I use the Web to gain ideas, inspiration and techniques from this and others ( Pavel Slovak). They wilre everything and bend the bejeezers out of it to make a compact form out of quite lanky material.

thanks for posting
Ken

[Olivecrazy]

Thought I would repost the following... God knows it's something I struggle with..

http://crataegus.com/2013/11/01/compact ... hite-pine/

Not my blog hope that's ok !

Ive never trained a pine till a few mths ago an found them very easy to bend use to see overseas people training them an sort wow they get them looking good an now know why. Pines are so bendy if you fully wire an leggy pine which has plenty of foliage an branches you be amazed what you can come up with

[eliass]

The net is great for inspiration styling wise, just have to be careful with all the conflicting horticultural info.....

Nice Work on the Juni by the way!

[kcpoole]

Thanks for the compliment:-)

Yes we have t0 be careful re the info as our growing conditions are vastly different than Europe opr the US

Ken