Update 2024 - "Acer Negundo" bonsai forest
I know I didn't write anything about my project in a year, but in one word, it's good. For the moment, it successfully passed the winter and yesterday it was its second (infamous) birthday since 2022. Yay... I wrote its backstory in an earlier blog, so let's see how it looks now. Fig.1.Forest as of 16/3/2024 The forest broke dormancy in mid February. I was so baffled and worried at the same time, one point because this winter was literally the most difficult one since I was a kid and second point, it broke dormancy in a few days after I pruned it. As usual, I prune it once a year, because Acer Negundos got a chaotic rhythm of growing and I am restricted to this point when I can't make too much pruning. Fig.2. Detail. Probably I would look like a clown trying to bonsai such a tree species, with literally none of the desired features for bonsai, but... th...