by    GENNARO MANZONE

THE TREE THAT SWIMS " OYOGUKI "

The juniper (chinensis var. shimpaku) introduced in these pages, you/he/she has been purchased in a known Italian hatchery. It was the only one been unsold.
The tree was not formed yet but the fact that there were other two trees at the base of the mother tree jumped, one of which it was completely shaved earth. There was besides a shari along the whole great tree.
You/he/she could not be said, in every case, that didn't already introduce any potentialities: a very hard wood and an enough luxuriant vegetation. To the beginning I thought to a style about three trunks (SANKAN), but then I had an it conceives: to realize a double trunk (SOOKAN) a particular po, whose small tree (child), a po was not only set in ahead in comparison to the great tree (mother), but it was also in style semicascata, with the branches that fell with elegance from the trunk as to graze, to kiss, to swim in a mirror of water. You introduced modeling is not spectacular but what surely appears interesting it is the choice of the style and the way used for realizing him/it. For which after a Carthusian cleaning of the bark and the dry firewood of the whole plant, you/he/she has been practiced along the whole trunk of the small tree a hollow in which a has been introduced it animates of aluminum so that to be able to force him/it without risks of breakups. In this way you/he/she has been conferred him that sinuosity and that movement that it missed him, making to purchase him dynamism, rhythm and at the same time so much delicacy.
                                                        

 

As it regards the mother tree, with the utensil for to fissure , she has been separated his more important branch drawing two of them.

 

                                                           

 

 

 

 

 

 

                   

 

 

 

 

 

It didn't stay whether to model the head of hair, whose proportion between mother and child is a decisive element for the evaluation of the whole. Á. this point the qualities of the plant result extraordinarily accented by the happy meeting between the technique and the suggestions of naturalness that the plant proposed.

After the modeling, for one year the tree has received normal cares of cultivation without incurring in some problem. The sun has been exposed to and manured abundantly. After one year the raffia and the aluminum soul you/he/she has been removed. Now the most greater charm transmits him/it really the small tree, that accents the character of the modeling in this style: it seems whether to want to swim in a mirror of water.