“You can never have too many stands to create a good display.” Eric preps a Juniper for the Pacific Bonsai Expo and plans his full display, which includes a secondary bonsai and an accent plant.
00:00:30 The tree needs a “final polishing” clean-up before the show. Eric takes off dangling growth on the bottom pads to ensure they’re reasonably clean. He both twists and scissors off small bits of foliage.
00:01:58 Discussion of movement in the upper trunk and leaving some “mystery to your eye”.
00:03:32 Subtle changes for show prep including one new wire, foliage clean-up, and adding a little movement.
00:04:03 Eric next works on the soil surface, which includes a top scrape, moss removal, re-sloping the soil, and reapplying moss (for today, a light layer of sphagnum to keep the soil surface a little more moist).
00:06:18 Formal 3-point display, discussion of secondary tree and accent plant selection.
00:07:39 Secondary tree is deciduous because the main is a conifer. The goal is for the secondary tree to complement the main bonsai without competing. Eric selects a Zelkova.
00:08:47 Selecting a different stand for the main tree and a discussion of stand selection for display.
00:09:51 Stand option #3
00:10:55 Stand option #4 is non-traditional. Eric made the stand, but it doesn’t work for this tree either.
00:11:47 Secondary tree probably needs a taller stand to round out the composition.
00:12:12 The right stand for the main tree is either round or a short cascade with light visual weight.
00:13:03 Small Jita (display board) with small accent plant.
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