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First 3 photos; Before, during and after Ryan Neil’s “im- Demonstrations on Sunday
possible” demonstration tree. Next 3 photos; Salvatore
Liporace wiring his demo tree followed by the “before” Ryan Neil: The tree on which Ryan had to work was
photo and the final result. not a gift: it is an ‘impossible’ Taxus cuspidata (yew).
Its trunk is straight and has an inverted conicity or
inverse taper. Some dead branches were cut off years
ago and left a thickening on the trunk.
Ryan explained what he was going to do in order to
create a pre-bonsai out of this. First he worked on the
deadwood to make the trunk more acceptable: bend-
ing some branches, cutting off other ones, bending
again and wiring. Meanwhile, Ryan (as usual) con-
tinued explaining what he was doing and why, and
of course he answered all questions that arose from
the visitors.
Finally, he changed the inclination of the tree and in
the end he created a really beautiful pre-bonsai out of
this yew, a tree on which many demonstrators would
not have preferred to work…Well done Ryan!

Salvatore Liporace: On Sunday, Salvatore demon-
strated on a pine that was collected years ago in The
Massif Central, an elevated region in south-central
France. It is not a very big tree, but it is a really old
yamadori full of character.
During his demonstration, Salvatore taught us how
to reduce the length of the needles from pines. Very
interesting lessons, which are very much appreci-
ated by the visitors. Two assistants, Rui Ferreira from
Portugal and Gilles Rigal from France, worked for
three hours with Salvatore wiring and putting all the
branches into place.
As we know, Salvatore is only satisfied when every-
thing is perfect, so the final result was a really beautiful
bonsai with everything in place.

Seok Ju Kim: The tree Seok Ju Kim styled on Sun-
day, was a Pinus sylvestris. This tree and its branches
are younger than the tree Seok worked on Saturday.
Therefore, on Sunday he used aluminium wire in-
stead of copper wire. As the thickness of the branches
to bend are 6 to 7 cm diameter and the main branch
is more than one meter long, we again could expect
some spectacular bending.
With much care, Seok wrapped the branches with
the same black elastic band he used on Saturday and
wired the branches with thick aluminium wires before
starting to carefully bend the branches little by little.
Also the foliage on the branches at the top of the tree
are situated too far from the trunk, so more bending
was necessary.
Again, Seok Ju Kim showed how to carefully bend
the incredibly thick branches, using his special winch
(see photo on bottom left).
The final work resulted in a compact pre-bonsai
with all the foliage close to the trunk. Everybody
should have seen Seok Ju Kim at work to believe the
results.
Last 3 photos; Seok Ju Kim’s demonstration tree, before
and after. The special manual winch to bend branches
in action.
10 | BCI | April/May/June 2015