Hemlock Update - Greenwood Bonsai

We released a video for you a couple of days ago. Monday just showing you some projects, things we have in the studio, showing you my work for the week if you like and we've shown you a variety of trees and things that we've got here to be I worked on and one of the trees we showed on that video was this big hemlock tree that had come There were quite a lot of people asking and mentioning about it And when we showed it to you on Monday I was just about to trim out some of the old growth If you look in here it hadn't been pruned for quite some time so I pretty much trimmed it So this was the kind of thing we got. dead branches that have died off and in here smaller dead twigs and when you left me on Monday I was trimming out little bits of growth like this look in here just trying to make it all look We were doing that as a prerequisite to wiring it. I spent a few hours on it going through all these foliage plants so now when you look at these We don't have any dead twigs in there, they're all nice and clean. I just cut back a few of the tips on these like this just to keep it a little A little tidier and just chase the growth back a little bit to encourage it to get more more dense So now at this kind of stage that we're at we're pretty much all trimmed the next The thing we're going to do is we're going to put some wire on it so this will be my next kind of job to I'm not going to do anything with this tree, but I've said that it's Wednesday here now and I'm gone tomorrow. To London trimming some trees for someone and then I'm gone the day after picking up bonsai I'll probably get most of this tree wired next week. But once we get it all nice and clear like this we can start getting some wire on it just Work it along the branches like this along to that tip and then this piece of wire will come along this one and the work we've done in trimming it and cleaning out all that sort of It's going to pay dividends because it means that we can get The wire on this tree is just so much faster and so much easier because the branches are already We don't have to fight little fluffy bits of growth and dead bits of growth We can just work our way along as fast as we can just through the foliage like that look And get to the end just cut that off and this section bring this second piece of wire along So this will be the next stage with this we just thought we'd show you a stage by stage Because we've had a few people asking about it so once we can get it wired we can start opening Get some of these foliage pads out give it a little bit of a trim get some movement into them and position them a little move that one over there and then this one here I've wired just It now has these two shoots on it so we could probably pair them off with a little bit of this A little bit of wire there we'll bring this piece over here so it's probably a couple of Two or three hours work for me to get this wired we had some more trees arrive yesterday I bought a few from private collections so I have a few trees to clean up so this will We're gonna have to put this on hold for a while until we can get back to it. But while it's in the studio we'll just show you kind of the next Next stage of development let's come up here so once this is wired we're going to be able to This soft growth is quite flexible on the hemlock so we can just get in And it gives us some movement here we can lay this like this we can place that on top We can bring this down here so that's the next stage just work our way through get it all wired and then I can position this we can put this on top of it like this build start to build up these foliage pads and then for the next few months in spring and summer next year as this Start filling this will make a real really really nice foliage pad on this side of the tree We'll continue this work all the way through so we'll probably do another short video for you in a few days time once it's fully wired and there's a photograph right here on your screen of what it started just before we pruned it so it's gone from pruning and now it's just going into the wiring stage and because we've had a lot of people ask about it we thought we'd show You know how it was going on it's also going to be potted but we're going to repot it in the spring This is in a handmade pot I think we could really do with the tree going in something a little shallower maybe a little longer you can see here it started to lift itself up out of the Bonsai pot you can see mycorrhiza fungus in here which is good symbiotic fungus it's good This is a good indication of a healthy tree and a healthy root system but we do need to reduce this depth But now is not the time of year for that so we can do that in the spring but with all the work We're doing to this tree which will be quite quite a different tree quite interesting By the time we finish working on it on this old hemlock tree thank you very much for Watching the video please give us a like and subscribe if you haven't already so you Don't miss any upcoming episodes on this tree and other trees that we're working on here at Greenwood thank you very much