What set you apart from other interiorscapers?
I am a plant-collecting enthusiast, I challenging myself by artfully presenting unusual plants that invigorate my clients spaces. I am committed to a pesticide free interiorscape. I've innovated a self-watering system.
What gives you inspiration and guidance as a bonsai/penjing plant is styled?
Each plant has a personality and a movement. Drawing upon my knowledge and what the plant tells me, I proceed with a goal of eliminating distractions and giving focus to the plants. Often by looking into a plant you can see more character, which helps me to choose what aspects to highlight. What sense of drama do I wish to convey? By staging the plant to look up into it gives a sense of perspective that I feel offers a glimpse into that plant's being.
How are plants selected for your clients space?
The organizations mission is primary. I believe that plants should compliment and strengthen their identity. I do a walk through and watch how people interact and use the space. I seek my client's input and learn what type of mood they would like to create and what they expect from their foliage. By using my palette of available plants I unify elements of space design, available lighting and my clients desired effects. I then present plant choices for an inspiring and stunning interiorscape.
What are your favorite plants?
Plants with movement and texture. Plants of surprising color, form or scent. To list a few; caudiciforms, bamboos, crested, monstrose and spiral cactus.
Where do you get your plants?
Nurseries and collectors throughout America.
Are your creations bonsai?
Bonsai simply means plant in a pot, evoking ancient trees or whimsical landscapes, I present a tree's unique beauty which loosely fits the traditional bonsai styles. Often my trees appear more wild or offbeat than traditional bonsai. Bonsaiesque is a word of my own creation that describes the styling, staging and potting of evocative trees. I am unconstrained by the rules of traditional bonsai, but integrate its ideas into my designs while guided by the tree.
Plantings of combined accent plants with a cohesive theme, meadows, deserts and streams are some of the paths I've pursued in my arrangements.
What is your philosophy of artistic pot plants?
My focus on indoor plantings has led me to interpret the aesthetics and horticulture of bonsai and penjing, and personally apply these concepts artfully to tree species beyond traditional evergreens and deciduous trees. I integrate my own design enhancements including ground covers and cohesive rock placement to create original and stunning tree designs. I do not use wire to bend my trees and I prune minimally for a more lush presentation. I also create artistic plant compositions using unusual plants other than trees including bamboo, cactus and succulents. Each planting has its own magical spirit that I am guided by as I compose a scape of wonder and focus. There is a concept in Japan of Wabi and Sabi that sums up the idea well. Wabi is a feeling of quiet, dignified simplicity associated with a place and Sabi is a feeling of simplicity and quietness associated with something old that is used over and over. A successful planting is a destination that draws you in, calms and reassures you and leaves you fuller.
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