Grrrrr. I do not like hollies. I do not like green eggs and ham.

Hollies are very common bonsai material, and they have such cute little leaves, especially yaupons. But they are so. Dang. Brittle. Bonsai is about movement, and these guys are full of rights angles and straight lines. Bor-ing.

In the previous post, I attempted to wire them up and applied some raffia casts. How did that go? Not well.

Only one of the casts healed, and I decided to chop that branch anyway. It is the above, nearly perfect ninety-degree angled branch.

I’m frustrated with these guys. Wiring just isn’t doing it- the branches straighten out over time, defeating the wire structure. I will likely do some major chops in the spring. I can build these little guys from the trunk up.