CARPINUS BETULUS - WATER AND LAND PENJING

Tree collected 4 years ago, last 2 years partially defoliated twice during the growing season.
Ramification increasing nicely due to that, but it is necessary also to let the sun into the crown, cause those inner branches die off quite fast if you let the outer ones grow freely.
This is indeed already quite controversial tree and landscape - since I published it after creation, when I was doing bonsai just 1 year, I am getting so many advices as to what to do with it, although my vision is clear from the start and the tree is getting exactly where I want it to be. Not that I do not listen to advices, thanx to Vlad I finally did cut the branch that was looking pretty straight in the pics and I was thinking of it, but never did before.
But if I obeyed all the advices I got so far, I would be left probably just with the roots.
One wouldn´t advice me to create at all, because I do not know the alphabeth yet and I am already writing a novel. Other people would remove the back trunk, another the tallest right one, and another would leave just the base and make it a shohin. Maroš would put it into a bonsai pot :)
Well lads, love it or hate it, this is Mimo´s creation and Mimo likes it as it is and where it goes :)

MY RAILWAY AND LAND PENJING ÁFTER 4 SEASONS

And with some mushrooms.

CORYLUS AVELLANA "CONTORTA" AFTER LEAF FALL

Simple garden centre material after 2 years.

POPLAR AFTER LEAVES FELL OFF

 Before collection

YAMADORI POPULUS X CANESCENS and PENJING WITH CHINESE ELMS

After 3 growing seasons.

After 1 growing season.

PRUNUS SPINOSA YAMADORI

After 3 growing seasons.

Penjing with Carpinus number 1

Not much of a growth this year due to a repotting to this marble slab, however - it is looking better and better every year.
At next repotting I will tilt it to the left a bit.
And since I started to move the trees to their winter spots, and taking some pics with them, I couldn´t resist to include my new Ibanez guitar in one, as that is what will be keeping my nervous fingers busy while the trees will be sleeping :)
I also wanted to have a pic with the 2 types of art made of trees - bonsai and the other art  made by Ibanez :)

ITOIGAWA NUMBER 4

I couldn´t resist buying another itoigawa with nice movement of the trunk.
So after I got it I styled it right away according to a virtual plan I made earlier.
I also moved it into a training pot with zeolite after i gently untangled the roots.
I didn´t cut any of them.
So here the pics of initial tree, plans and styling results.

CREATING KIMURA STYLE ROCK TOWER

While I am doing some extensions on the house and working with Porfix building blocks, I have decided I will make me a Kimura style rock tower for some junipers to have some fun along the hard work.
2 weeks ago I glued 4 of them together with frost resistant flexible building block glue and yesterday I took out my new makita gear and got to it.
Afte I finished, I painted it all over with deep penetration liquid to prepare it to be coated in more flexible frost resistant (cement like) glue.
Now I have to figure out which paints to use for it to look more realistic than my previous effort.
Junipers are waiting in the garden and that will be the most fun part to style them and wire into positions on the rock tower.
I will try and look up some suitable pot for it and if I won´t find anything, I will try to make a concrete slab for it.

Before the works begun

It went through like if I was sawing the butter - but pretty soon all of the sharp points on the blade were gone - for this process I totally destroyed 2 blades - maybe because I didn´t have any specially for stone sawing and used the ones designated for wood and metal cutting.

After the rough silhouette was done

and after carving

Back side with the channels for the roots, so they can reach the pot in some time...

LITERATI PINE TRIPLE TRUNK

And another of my precious literati pines in training. All extra branches growing from 1 place removed. It is slowly taking shape.

 And to remind you how it all started:

LITERATI PINE TWIN TRUNK

After second styling and in a new pot by Ivet Mikešová.

LITERATI JUNIPER TWINTRUNK STYLING

I had to start to practice my guitar again today, after more than a month.
Instead I found myself working on this cheap juniper twintrunk and styling was inspired by works of literati penjing master Qingquan Zhao.