The Rise . Salon De Souffle

  Recently Hedda Dowd  (owner of  The Rise located at 5360 W.Lover's Lane
Dallas, Tex. ) came to my shop to purchase a Bonsai. After picking out a pot
she chose a zelkova tree & I fixed it up real nice. "You know where this tree is
going don't you?" I said no,I don't. She said I'm giving this to Bush. I said the
only Bush I know of is ex-president Bush. That's right I'm giving this to George
& Laura to commemorate  the birth of their granddaughter.
  I was stunned an ex-president & his wife were getting one of my trees !!
I didn't even get a picture of it. On top of that she also picked out one of 
my maples for her business, now when you enter her Bistro the first thing you 

see is my (whoops HER) tree!!!!     

   The Rise is a four star restaurant with a laid back atmosphere where all the in 

people go for brunch it opens at 11:00 a.m. Their souffles are to die for!!!! My

wife & I went to deliver the maple & we stayed to eat . It was so Delicious!!!

A couple weeks later we took my daughter Linda to celebrate her birthday 

there.

    

                           My wife & daughter

              My daughter & me and our souffles I'm going to work my       

 way thru their list of souffles

                         I'm behind on my trimming,shaping, & styling on my

Japanese maples. 

                                  That's just on my Japanese maples not to mention

          my Trident maples

                               This is my Brazilian Rain tree I've been cutting on it

                     

                                   These are cuttings I've made so far from the

      Brazilian rain tree

                                      This is Eric who came by to visit

                           

                                   This is yours truly,  Eric said if I have to take a 

                       picture you do too !!

                                         That's all for now      WAX ON ........WAX OFF

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The month of April slipped by me

   The month of April went by so fast. I was busy with family
matters & bonsai stuff,all mixed up together!!!
    Then May happened ...any way ..Here's what happened :

                                             The first Sat. of April I did a program for
                                          Dallas Bonsai Society where I styled a
                                           Elaeagnus   silverberry 

                                             After changing it from the nursery pot into
                                          a Styrofoam box it was raffeled off --the
                                          winner was Steve Flynn!!!

                                               Russ & his wife came from out of town &
                                            they bought a tray of maples

                                                             Dustin & robin also came from
                                                         out of town they bought several
                                                          bonsai.                                               

                                       Every thing started blooming this is a pear tree

                                            This is a honeysuckel

                                               Wisteria always smells good

                                            Different colors of Bougainvillea

                                                     Pomegranate

                                               Calamondin Orange

                                             Assorted Azaleas

                                              An other Pomegranate

                                               My # 1 side kick posing in front of a
                                             blooming peach tree.


                            That's all for now I'll post some thing before this
                                       week end, I promise!!!


                                     WAX ON  ....................WAX OFF

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Busy busy busy!!!!!!

   Sorry I haven't posted anything for  April & now here it's almost the middle of May
and on top of that it's Mother's day tomorrow! I promise I'll post by Tuesday. I've been so busy
lately with one thing or an other but I'll catch you up on every thing!!!  

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HAIL AND NOW A COLD SPELL

  I love this Dallas weather you never know
what to expect!!!!  I bet you we will have
another freeze before or after Easter!!!







  Any way I promised you an update on a collected tree
 that was growing in a crack in a huge rock

     I was able to get it out of the rock

 

        This was a close up of the trunk

 

         
            It had a massive root system

                This is the tree after it was potted
              and wired up ...hope it survives
      

                Daniel stopped buy to show me his
                 first try at a phoenix graft.. pretty nice!!        

                     Randy acquired some Black Pines but
                      he didn't have any room in his yard so
                      we made a deal.I would plant them
                      along side my Pines and Junipers
                              

                   He would get ten and I would get the rest.
                    It was a lot of hard work to get the rocks
                    out and dig the holes.

                 Then I had to dig a trench for the watering
                  system
 

              
                       The two rows of Pines were dug with
                        tiles in the bottom of the holes to keep
                         the roots from growing straight down

                      The watering system was installed and
                       up running it took a total of 3days to
                       do everything now we'll wait to see
                        if they survive

                            Landon works evenings but he wanted
                            to go on a dig so we left in the a.m. and
                            he only had time for one tree.

                           By the time we got back and potted
                           his tree up he drove home and had
                           enough time to go work...nice tree!!



 That's all for now      WAX ON.............WAX OFF
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Crazy weather continues!

   This Dallas weather continues to astound....freezing nights followed by mild daytime
temperatures...hot/cold ...temperatures from the 30's to mid 50's to the  occasional 80's????
    Well the ground hog said it's going to be an early spring but I bet were in for a couple
 more freezing nights!!!

     These are Chinese Elms that were dug up from a bed in my yard.
Unfortunally they had borers & they were treated but they
were damaged.

        Now the damaged areas have to carved away

   I've cut the top of the tree down & exposed the
 damaged area it will have to have a wood harder to keep
 the wood from rotting

     
The damage to this tree was so extensive that I'll have to
hollow out the front all the way to the bottom

 The same thing will have to be done to this tree.  I've
 started to carve out the front & will incorporate some
  jin & try to immtate some old tree beat up by nature                                 

  On a recent dig I found this old juniper growing in
  crack between two boulders

  Luck was with me I was able to use a pry bar to
  slide the bottom shelf off. It broke up when it hit
 the creek

             Talk about a large root spread

        The root mass covered about a third of my truck bed

    I cut most of the root mass away to pot it. I will put up
    a picture of it on my next post.

        Hope it survives

  Daniel is a welder by trade but he weilds a pretty
 mean shovel.on a dig. He decided he wanted
this tree on a nearby creek bed. 

   He did pretty good on his first dig!!!!
Proud of his trees,see the smile on his face!!!!



                       That's all for now


                                             WAX ON................................WAX OFF

                   

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