Table Trees
May. 13th, 2012 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
summer_jackelHere are some progress photos of the four little yearling-graft Japanese maples I brought home last summer.
The red dragon.
The red filigree lace. It's the only one of the four I'm doing any training with right now, but I have high hopes for its beautiful shape if I brace it this spring.
The rubrifolium in situ.
The waterfall, which is a little scruffy and slug-nibbled right now.
A little redwood in a pot.
These, clearly, are not trees at all, but meet my ducks! All five of them have reached maturity and are healthy, lovely ducks who are now living outside. The two drakes are Dutch Bill (after a local historical figure) and Onyx; the three hens are Silver, Steel and Labradorite, which shortens to Lab. Yep, I have a black duck named Lab, because I am that funny.
The red dragon.
The red filigree lace. It's the only one of the four I'm doing any training with right now, but I have high hopes for its beautiful shape if I brace it this spring.
The rubrifolium in situ.
The waterfall, which is a little scruffy and slug-nibbled right now.
A little redwood in a pot.
These, clearly, are not trees at all, but meet my ducks! All five of them have reached maturity and are healthy, lovely ducks who are now living outside. The two drakes are Dutch Bill (after a local historical figure) and Onyx; the three hens are Silver, Steel and Labradorite, which shortens to Lab. Yep, I have a black duck named Lab, because I am that funny.
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Date: 2012-05-13 09:05 pm (UTC)And Dutch Bill is too huggable. Yay, ducks! Although you deserve to be pinched somewhere tender for Lab the Black Duck, I believe.
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Date: 2012-05-14 04:53 am (UTC)I think Lab the duck is brilliant comic genius. I am so funny.
Maybe the small trees should get more screen time.