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Golden Arrow Bonsai
Calligraphy by Kumiko Buck
This is an ancient one! I bet this ponderosa
pine is 500 years old. The tree was collected in the spring of
2004.
I wired and repotted it in the spring of 2006.
It's coming along nicely, but I need to change the angle a bit
and
lower the top further. It's in a 27 inch ceramic
pot.
Seven Foot Tall
Found in the wild, 2/02. I had never seen
such a contorted trunk. And I've seen quite a few!
First year in a pot, 6/02. It has a wild grace.
First styling, 4/04. Truly, it's an exceptional
tree.
Second styling, 4/06. It's getting better.
I call this tree seven foot tall because if
you measure the total length of the trunk around all
the bends it's just a hair over seven feet
in length. In an elegant white crackle pot by Sara Raynor.
Last, but not least, I would never have expected
to find the same type of growth pattern
in a full-size tree, but here it is! This
very contorted old pine is about 35' tall. It has shari spiralling
up the trunk and a wild convolution in the
upper trunk, very similar to
the one I call Seven Foot Tall
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Hi there!
That's a picture of me, Andrew Smith. I hope you enjoy this web
site. Below are some pictures of a few trees I've collected as
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first Black Hills spruce I ever collected. After several years
it returned to my hands and so I did the initial wiring of it.
Probably around 150 years old. In a pot by Dale Cochoy. |
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This ponderosa pine was collected
in April, 1998.
It was purchased by Fred Knobloch
for $150.
In just a few years it has become
an excellent bonsai, highlighted by a Sara Raynor pot.
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Ponderosa pine
estimated age 150 years
Pot by Don Gould
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Black Hills spruce
estimated age 80-100 years
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Rocky Mountain juniper
estimated age +/-300 years
Styled by Masahiko Kimura
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Black Hills spruce
estimated age 200+ years
2007 John Naka award winner
Pot by Sara Raynor
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This ponderosa pine was purchased
by Fred Knobloch in April, 1999 for $250.
He has dramatically improved the tree
in just a short time.
Sara Raynor pot.
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What I've got to offer: Golden
Arrow Bonsai collects, trains and sells bonsai specimen material
from the mountains of the Western United States. All trees are
legally purchased from the appropriate state, federal or private
land owners. Many of these trees are quite ancient and every
one is a completely unique specimen trained by the fierce mountain
winds, the deep winter snows and the life-giving spring rains.
In it's own way each tree expresses the enduring character of
a life lived under difficult circumstances, the triumph of life
over the frequent sorrows of existence.
Specimens like this make excellent subjects for bonsai. They
frequently possess beautiful jin and shari, graceful and sinuous
trunks and rugged, old bark. Through careful training as bonsai
their deepest beauty may be brought out and they may charm viewers
and enchant their caretakers for decades, or even centuries,
to come.
So what I have to offer are the best trees at the best prices
anywhere!
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Contact Golden Arrow Bonsai at:
22473 Alpine Acres Dr.
Deadwood, SD 57732
(605) 342-4467
Goldarrowood@aol.com
© Copyright 1998 Golden Arrow Bonsai
This page was created by Joel Smith
Updated 3/12/2002
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