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Ginkgo biloba group plantings started from seeds three years ago. This species takes time to ramify. ...

White Birch group plantings started four years ago from seeds. ...

Defoliation, pruning and wiring on a triple-trunk Acer palmatum. ...

I had the opportunity to attend a two-days workshop with bonsai master François Jeker on November 4 and 6, organized by the Société de Bonsaï et de Penjing de Montréal. Here is the tree that I evolved under the supervision of Mr. Jeker, a collected larch that I had been growing since 2015. ...

I collected this Spruce in 2014 (to see older pictures of the tree). This spring I reduced the growth to two per junction and applied a small amount of wire. Some lower branches were removed. ...

This small Larch was purchased as a seedling from Yves Létourneau in 2010.It was always cultivated in containers. 12 years later it becomes a shohin with its first ceramics. Year after year changes are incremental, almost noticeable. Another layer of cambium becomes xylem, another branch bifurcation increases entropy. Fissures appear on the bark. 12 years to build a tree. This is only the beginning of its journey. ...

This old Larch was collected in a distant land and has know cold winters. I am his protector since 2015. This tree was initially parallel to the ground and it took two repottings to straighten the trunk and sever the roots that emerged halfway along the trunk. I now focus on the ramification and developing the apex. The uppermost branches will be changed into jin when the desired shape and development is achieved. ...

Wiring and styling of a Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia). ...

Defoliating and wiring a Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’. ...

Defoliating and wiring young Ginkgo biloba group planting. ...