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If any of you aren't aware of this resource, I highly recommend saving it to your favorites list. That is if you grow conifers of any kind. Any type of juniper, pine, spruce, fir, etc. that you can imagine is listed there. This is for species specific info, not bonsai info. I especially use...

To celebrate my first post on the new and improved B-nut, here's one of my all time favorite trees. My collecting partner, Steve, collected this tree a couple of years ago, and he graciously passed it along to me last year. I fell in love with this tree the moment I saw it, and have been looking...

Here's a Ficus I acquired from Scott at Blue River Bonsia. Not really traditional, but I like that. :) It desperately needs a new pot. The one it's going in for now is just a cheap, warped, Chinese pot. I'll get a nicer one when I find the right one. Here are the shots I took to get an...

Here's a Limber Pine (Pinus Flexilis) that I recently styled. This is just the very first styling, so it is still a bit rough in some areas. I find it very enjoyable and challenging to work with collected trees. I like the challenge of finding a balance between styling, and attempting to keep...

This thread is meant to be similar to "The Tree Thread," only Yamadori instead. 1) Please post a picture when you comment. 2) The picture must be of "Yamadori." --- Yamadori = Mountain Tree, or Tree From the Mountain. We will extend this to include any tree collected from the wild. So...

This is just a friendly reminder that... 1) Bonsai is inspired by nature... not the other way round. 2) Bonsai should be fun! 3) Bonsai Styling guidelines (aka the "rules") are there for a reason. They are helpful in creating attractive bonsai, but they didn't create nature, and they don't have...

A poem, or least my attempt at one. :) Rooted In Stone Old, old am I. Seated up high, high on this cliff. I’ve seen much, much more than you know. Secrets I hold, secrets to keep. Beaten and torn, ravaged by time, my body does show, wounds of long life. Of...

Don't worry, they're just flowers. Here's a little progression of my not so impressive white flowering Serissa. I'm fully aware that this little guy doesn't have much going for it as far as truly great bonsai potential. But that's not why I keep him around. I've been working this tree...

I've posted pictures of this tree all over the place, so I figured it's time to compile them into one place. These first pictures are the sales pictures from Don Blackmond. Check out www.gregorybeachbonsai.com to see what he has for sale. He has top notch stuff!

Happy fall from Wyoming... lol. The color is just starting here, but were already getting some white stuff. Today is the first of it and it looks like we'll have an early winter this year. I'll share more color as I get it. Hopefully we don't skip too much of it with this weather. :confused:

I learned what it feels like to be hunted yesterday.... Here's a friend I made while collecting, who seemed a bit too interested in tasting me. Fortunately we were both able to part ways unharmed! I was blessed with an amazing experience, great photo's,... and my life...

I have some friends in Nebraska who have been building a new bonsai business. Their new blog is just up today! http://blueriverbonsai.wordpress.com/ They are great people, with awesome trees and pots. Stephanie Walker has been making and selling some great pots. If you're on facebook, she's...

MACH5 asked me to post some of my Amur maple (A. Ginnala) projects... so here's my largest one. I bought this tree in the summer of 2013. The tree was about 7' tall and I chopped it to just over a foot for the main trunk, leaving a strong branch to heal the cut and start on the new trunk...

I don't see much for Yamadori listed on ebay, but every once in a while there's a good one or two. I noticed a couple of pondy's there recently (neither of them are mine) and figured I'd start a thread so that when anyone sees yamadori on ebay they can mention it here. :)...

Now it's -2 :( Brrrrrrr.......

This guy was fighting mildew for part of the summer but otherwise seemed healthy, until... I looked at the bark more closely. -- The upper portion of the trunk seems to have some disease or something going on. I can't tell yet if it's the "Pseudomonas syringae" bacterial disease that Michael...

With all this talk about handling large bonsai... I figured it's time to share mine. I'd like this to be another picture thread... So please post your smallest and largest trees! :) No need for pictures to post, but if you got em share em. ;) I'll start us off with a (kifu...?...jk!!!) large...

Those of you who show your trees regularly; where do you buy your stands? And can they be bought online, or do I have to find them at a show?

Tony Tickle posted on facebook today, and it sounds like we're loosing Peter Adams shortly. :( Pray for his family and friends. I don't know him personally, but he made a huge impact in the bonsai world and on my love of bonsai.

I have had several people mention looking at trees of mine that they think the side where a tree is leaning far away from you should be the front... I realize that it can be hard in a two dimensional image to see this.. but every time I have included images from all angles so that it should be...

How do you know if a pine you collected last year likes it's new home?... . I think this one is speaking clearly enough! Past needles range from 1/4" to 1" at the most, while this years needles are an easy 2"!! I collected this in May of 2012. Nothing spectacular here but this one has nice...

I was lucky enough to get several new maples this year that I'm excited about. I absolutely love maple bonsai, and specifically Japanese Maples. I like trident too and I'm incredibly happy with the tree below, but I'm still on the search for JM's of similar quality. First up is a Trident...

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Here are some pics and a post on our blog about the age of a common juniper that Steve cut: http://backcountrybonsai.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/how-old-is-that-little-tree/

This was my workshop tree at the ABS/BCI convention in Denver last June. Marc Noelanders led the workshop and was a great teacher. I highly recommend working with him if you get the chance. The tree was colllected in April of 2007 by Todd Schlafer in Colorado. I repotted it this spring...