On the road
Posted: August 26th, 2013, 3:17 pm
Some stuff I've seen on the road.
Spring comes colour-coded- Most wattles don't look like bonsai. Maybe our bonsai shouldn't either- Form study - dead wattle. Some don't last long. All the branches and branchlets sweep along together, getting finer and finer, not like the arranged pulled-down branches in Japanese pine trees. Mels and Leptos often have this structure too. This one sweeps well. On the way to Bendigo. Wattles are often shrubby understory plants - even if they have interesting leaves and flowers, they may never make a solid trunk. I'd like to see a group planting of densely packed Eucs, with Acacias in flower underneath them... The complex colours and shapes in the junk on the ground are interesting. Another Euc study. Grouped so tightly you can't see through them. Fred Williams the painter said that he only "got" Australian landscapes when he realised that quite often there's no focal point, just patterns and textures.
This stuff messes with my bonsai brain. It may take twenty years...
Gavin
Spring comes colour-coded- Most wattles don't look like bonsai. Maybe our bonsai shouldn't either- Form study - dead wattle. Some don't last long. All the branches and branchlets sweep along together, getting finer and finer, not like the arranged pulled-down branches in Japanese pine trees. Mels and Leptos often have this structure too. This one sweeps well. On the way to Bendigo. Wattles are often shrubby understory plants - even if they have interesting leaves and flowers, they may never make a solid trunk. I'd like to see a group planting of densely packed Eucs, with Acacias in flower underneath them... The complex colours and shapes in the junk on the ground are interesting. Another Euc study. Grouped so tightly you can't see through them. Fred Williams the painter said that he only "got" Australian landscapes when he realised that quite often there's no focal point, just patterns and textures.
This stuff messes with my bonsai brain. It may take twenty years...
Gavin