Ahhh - this Dawn Redwood has progressed wonderfully this year! With the branch development, I think I like your new front better as well - shows off that hollow, which definitely needs to be seen. Great composition!!
I love this tree!! Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday to decorate for!! So now I am thinking I need a Dawn redwood to add to my decor! They are gorgeous trees!! Can't wait to see this near Halloween!
Absolutely brilliant 🤩 Love Dawn Redwood and your spooky one is just gorgeous 🥰 Incredible style. 👍 So much fun to work with, constantly pushing and growing 🥰 Enjoy your day 😘 Cheers 🙋♀️ Martina
Hi Xav I generally prefer Redwood to be straight up but you managed to create a nice style with this one, the early pruning has payed off mate I like it a lot I would be delighted to own it, cut the long branches back getting a bit leggy you have some good foliage further back, I like quirky you know that. Xav I didn’t comment on you last short video, as to me it was too close to home, it was almost me speaking instead of you, glad we have both come through thanks to our love of bonsai. All the best my friend.
I appreciate that Joe. Some trees i stick to convention but often I am happy to let the tree just 'talk to me'. It does look good with the other two Redwoods. All very different in style.
stunner! trees looking alright as well! i'm currently air layering my dawn redwood but im planning on getting some movement into the base section when the top comes off. love your passion for this tree, its a great looking tree
@@XaviersBonsaiRetreat I tried a good few & lost as many trees over time. I now have a few trees, all fitting a single bench: a crab apple, windswept tiger ficus, a chinese elm and a marvelous 60 year old Sawara cypress, a 3 year old trident maple and I just rooted some Acer Palmatum cuttings (one is Katsura, the other has detailed leaf veins when in shadow and colors tones change to browngreen when in full sun, the autumn color of it is bright copery red). I forgot to mention a 3year old Black Pine, which I fetched to train myself. Not many, but I hope to shape them as beautiful as I can.
I agree that's definitely the better front. As you look from the front, the lower right side is a bit too confused for me. From 16,957 kms away it's hard to suggest what might need to go but the rest of the tree is nicely spaced and elegant and that bottom right looks quite different. I appreciate that you are going for "spooky" and I certainly find the unfinished look of that area disturbing, so maybe your dastardly plan is working. 😱 BTW the 'parallel' branches are a dominant feature and I love them.
It doesnt look scary. I think it's beautiful. I ike the leggy cascading branches too. Could the fact that it's leggy, cascading over the horizontal branch help make the tree look scarier when it's bare?
Ahhh - this Dawn Redwood has progressed wonderfully this year! With the branch development, I think I like your new front better as well - shows off that hollow, which definitely needs to be seen. Great composition!!
Unique...just like me :)
Gorgeous tree, fine example of your enthusiasm.
Keep it up.
I do it for the journey. Good to watch you enjoying and sharing yours mate. 😊
This is a fun tree and I just want to see where it ends up. It is so healthy right now :)
It’s very beautiful & the new front is better
I think you mght be right - now I just need that inner growth to extend to fill in the gaps :)
I love this tree!! Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday to decorate for!! So now I am thinking I need a Dawn redwood to add to my decor! They are gorgeous trees!! Can't wait to see this near Halloween!
It will be without any fronds and will look very dark and moody - I hope :)
@@XaviersBonsaiRetreat sounds awesome!
That redwood is absolutely gorgeous. You must be very pleased how it is progressing. If it was mine I would be like a dog with two tails.
What a fantastic description - made me smile :)
The problem with two tails is you’d be risking inverse taper. (sorry….😂)
Absolutely brilliant 🤩 Love Dawn Redwood and your spooky one is just gorgeous 🥰 Incredible style. 👍 So much fun to work with, constantly pushing and growing 🥰 Enjoy your day 😘 Cheers 🙋♀️ Martina
Thanks martina - make sure you get loads of vitamin D
@@XaviersBonsaiRetreat 😄👍 30.000 i.U. per week + moderate sun ☀️ works for me 😘
I responded strongly to repotting, nice growth. The new front looks good to me. Greetings 👍
Cheers - it responded much quicker than I thought it would :)
This tree looks really interesting... good one.
Most of my Dawn redwoods are 'non-standard' in design :)
Looks super Xav, hopefully it will fill out over the years 👍👍
I am hoping that next year will see me bringing the leggy growth closer in and filling it in as you say.
Great work and very nice tree. It's turning into a stunner!
Cheers - it has a few twists in design to come next year :)
Hi Xav I generally prefer Redwood to be straight up but you managed to create a nice style with this one, the early pruning has payed off mate I like it a lot I would be delighted to own it, cut the long branches back getting a bit leggy you have some good foliage further back, I like quirky you know that. Xav I didn’t comment on you last short video, as to me it was too close to home, it was almost me speaking instead of you, glad we have both come through thanks to our love of bonsai. All the best my friend.
I appreciate that Joe. Some trees i stick to convention but often I am happy to let the tree just 'talk to me'. It does look good with the other two Redwoods. All very different in style.
Great progress on this spooky Redwood. In all honesty mine has been a bit neglected this year.
Unlike me Jason - you do actually have to work :)
Yes really great tree never had one of these but looking for one now thank from North Wales 👍👍👍
You will never regret that purchase...just make sure to send me a picture when you get it :)
Great looking tree 👻
Thanks - at least it is nice and healthy
Love this spooky redwood!!
Something very unique about it - it gives two very different moods between winter and summer :)
Nice job xavier. Very unique style. 👌
Definitely doesn't tick any of the conventional boxes :)
stunner! trees looking alright as well!
i'm currently air layering my dawn redwood but im planning on getting some movement into the base section when the top comes off.
love your passion for this tree, its a great looking tree
It's a lot of fun going freestyle sometimes :)
It’s looking cool xav 👊👊👊
Cheers Andy
Marvelous development. Thumbs up.
Thank you roland - so do you have many trees yourself?
@@XaviersBonsaiRetreat I tried a good few & lost as many trees over time. I now have a few trees, all fitting a single bench: a crab apple, windswept tiger ficus, a chinese elm and a marvelous 60 year old Sawara cypress, a 3 year old trident maple and I just rooted some Acer Palmatum cuttings (one is Katsura, the other has detailed leaf veins when in shadow and colors tones change to browngreen when in full sun, the autumn color of it is bright copery red). I forgot to mention a 3year old Black Pine, which I fetched to train myself. Not many, but I hope to shape them as beautiful as I can.
@@RolandWampers Sounds brilliant.
Nice job xavier keep up the good work mate thanks
Thanks Phillip
Lovely job
Thanks Raymond
Hey Xav. I would just keep the first left branche.
Grts
K
I liked your plan for this - maybe I will go that direction :)
Bella sequoia e ottimo video,grazie.
Thank you :)
I agree that's definitely the better front. As you look from the front, the lower right side is a bit too confused for me. From 16,957 kms away it's hard to suggest what might need to go but the rest of the tree is nicely spaced and elegant and that bottom right looks quite different. I appreciate that you are going for "spooky" and I certainly find the unfinished look of that area disturbing, so maybe your dastardly plan is working. 😱 BTW the 'parallel' branches are a dominant feature and I love them.
I keep looking at it and find something in that chaos that I like. It will never win prizes but it definitely draws the eye on my bench :)
It doesnt look scary. I think it's beautiful. I ike the leggy cascading branches too. Could the fact that it's leggy, cascading over the horizontal branch help make the tree look scarier when it's bare?
It definitely looked softer once it had all those fronds growing. Something about this that I do like...definitely not classical :)
Cut, cut, cut those two branches. Nice tree.
I have some new ideas for next year which may see most of that get cut off :)