Peter Tea Aug 12, 2012 3 min August and Looking Back It’s funny how things seem to be so much older looking back a year and a half. Perhaps it’s not really the age but the improvements over...
Peter Tea Jul 12, 2012 2 min Pushing the Limit 2 with the Scenic Route Pushing the Limit 2 with the Scenic Route I thought you’d all enjoy an update about this Black pine that was heavily bent last Winter. I...
Peter Tea May 5, 2012 7 min Lets Bend! Part 3 Lets Bend! Part 3 Repotting season is coming to an end here at Aichien an how fitting that this Black Pine turned out to be the last tree...
Peter Tea Mar 31, 2012 2 min Just Plastic Rope Just Plastic Rope In the last Blog post of Mr. Tanaka’s work, many of you commented on the rope that he used instead of raffia to make a ...
Peter Tea Mar 16, 2012 16 min Tanaka, Junichiro ç”°ä¸ æ·³ä¸€éƒŽ Tanaka, Junichiro ç”°ä¸ æ·³ä¸€éƒŽ I was working in the workshop as usual one day and Mr. Tanaka brings in this Black Pine and sets it on his work ...
Peter Tea Feb 12, 2012 4 min Pushing the Limit! Pushing the Limit! One day, Mr. Tanaka brought this Japanese Black Pine into the workshop and said, “clean this tree up for the auction t...
Peter Tea Jan 31, 2012 3 min Lets Bend! Part 2 Lets Bend! Part 2 Do you remember this Black Pine? Back In July of 2011 I bent the trunk of this tree and wrote a post about it called L...
Peter Tea Jan 25, 2012 4 min Rebar Basic On Black Pine Rebar Basic on Black Pine The day Mr. Tanaka left the nursery to bring trees to Kokufu-ten, he tasked me to style this Japanese Black Pin...
Peter Tea Aug 17, 2011 2 min Let's Bend! Part 1 The other day I was given the task to do some trunk bending on this tree. The tree has nice old bark and very healthy. Perfect for bend...
