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I have a little Crab Apple flowering at the moment .

Chinese Elm , knot style .

Quercus robur just starting to leaf out in a Southern Hemisphere spring .

Berberis

Found this really cool pot , you may recognise the maker . ’ Hokkaido ‘ Elm , just potted into its first pot .

Chinese Elm broom with a dusting of recent snow .

Forgot to include the name of the tree in the Tea Time image . Its an Azalea saotome .

Tea time

It’s Eucalyptus Day in Oz today , I don’t know what were supposed to do . worth a photo . Eucalyptus rubida , common name ‘candlebark ‘

I think the problem is it has dried out at one stage so the roots have died off . I strike cuttings of these in a glass of water all the time . They don’t mind wet feet . The mother plant that I strike the cuttings from is a root over rock that sits permanently in a bowl of water . It definitely...

Casuarina will backbud profusely when pruned hard . You would have no problem turning this tree into a smaller tree . Go back .

One day maybe . I kept on growing the left hand side after I originally made the first Jin just to get a better Jin and now I think I have to keep some of a the left hand side for balance or tilt it or cut more off it or something . Basically I am having fun growing it and seeing where it goes...

A little twisty Juniper . The shari needs redoing , as it’s starting to close over . Close up

I was at my local bar this afternoon when this image made me think of this thread . The lone chair and the petal on the ground was quite poignant . And it was such an innocent scene .

Kunzea parvifolia . An Australian native . I spent about two hours pruning it back after it flowered . To my eye it still looks a bit heavy but I need good growth to recover from a early summer repot I am about to do . A bit tall but it’s light in the hand .

One from me . Little bitty shrooms in a Shohin birch .

An American Hemlock in Oz . It’s mid spring here and this tree looks beautiful with that contrast of the old and the new growth .

Have you thought about doing a ground layer or a few grafts to improve the roots ? Walters roots would probably look better planted a bit deeper in the pot but they look the ‘look ‘ . Just my opinion of course .

Cotoneaster flowering .

Callistemon It’s just starting to break into spring growth .

I have seen some nice ones around . You don’t often see large berberis bonsai because they tend to grow in clumps rather than with a trunk . The autumn colour can be spectacular and they have beautiful tiny flowers . They back bud on old wood to the point that is annoying and can be a little...

Berberis

Elm

Larch

Oak