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This is a Chimonanthus retusus which I started a while ago after seeing them in Murata's ''Four seasons of Bonsai''
It has not flowered yet but I really enjoy the whitish bark and wild apearence during winter. Looking forward to the next few years with this one.
A member of the Ash/Olive family. Very tough and easy to grow and defoliates as easy as any ash. In fact its not as brittle and has finer ramification so I think its better than ash plus one day it may even flower!

I really like the design . Very Impressive

Thanks Mathew. It needs more depth in the upper left and middle right but I will work towards that. As you can see I'm a big fan of clip and grow rather than wire to shape branches. IMO wire is for directing and cutting is for producing although the line between them is blured.

Very nice Treeman. I love the lower trunk & nebari, really showing some age.

Nice tree dunno that i have seen one before

if you lost all the branching on the left, I reckon it would be a cracker windswept too.

Ken

Beautiful tree, reminds me a lot of Harry Harringtons work, very natural looking!

Cheers for showing us

Kerrin

kcpoole wrote:

if you lost all the branching on the left, I reckon it would be a cracker windswept too.

That is a very interesting idea Ken!....food for thought..

This is a nice deciduous image, in a few more years it will look fantastic. Are these in any way related to the Loropetalum Chinense?