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Just consolidating pics of these trees from the garden. The smallest one presently A tree that has changed many times in its life. Started as a commercial "s curve" mallsai for a couple of bucks.

Decided to make a spot to drop pics of the premna in my garden. Nothing special but have a lot of fun with them. Some are large but most are very small as the leaves deduce so easily.

Thought I'd make a thread of the bonsai related things I see and find around our island. Last weekend at Jianguo Flower Market in Taipei, Taiwan. Was a long weekend so the potters were not there sadly.

The company I work for are moving sites in 2 years. The new land will start development in January. Our currently location is in a business community that the government has decided to use to put a tarred through road in. As such the trees in the community were going to be moved by the community...

I was going around last week looking for some pots and was pointed towards a shop I thought was a run of the mill small nursery with a few larger pots for pot plants outside. When I got there I realized the store, although only about 6m (18ft) wide, was very deep and double story. It was filled...

Went up to Taipei for our annual zoo visit and as always stopped by the famous flower market. Bought a few new pots. I think I paid US$60-70 for everything that day including lime sulphur, neem oil and something small. Wanted a little hand painted Japanese pot. It was rectangular, white and...

I went to Montreal two weeks ago. The actual botanical garden was nice but nothing I would consider special. The bonsai display, however, was fantastic. I have looked at some of the trees online without realizing they were on display in the Montreal Garden. I was elated when I saw them in...

I will be heading to To. with my wife for a month tomorrow. Where should I go if I want to see some bonsai related sights and places? We will also be driving to Quebec for a 3-4 day stay so any places there or along the way please let me know. Thanks

The first picture I have of this plant has the date January 2015. I think I got it in summer 2014 or earliest Jan/Feb 2014. It started out as a 5'-6' background plant in a friend's small side garden. He hacked back a group of them and didn't like where this was situated so pulled it out. He...

I have seen very few "Golden Dewdrop" bonsai online and none yet in person. I found this bush next to a friend's driveway, it was getting shaded out and slowing growth. So two summers ago, it was raining for about 3 weeks and the soil was waterlogged. I touch the plant, realized it was loose...

I currently only have three shohin sized Juniper chinensis. I may get more in the future if I spot something nice at the right size and price. Here is my shohin literati. I got it in 2014 and grew it to make sure it was healthy. In 2015 I wired the whole tree like this. After it had grown like...

Thought I would start a thread I will periodically update. Not regularly. Sporadically. I have a few ficus that now have pots or will be getting soon. Some that I need help choosing a direction on and some that are just starting out. The first one is my Literati cascade. I like this one. It...

I bought this plant a little over a year ago. It's a fun little plant but I cannot seem to ID it. I have not exhausted the internet but I have searched long enough to realize the wealth of knowledge here make searching for more info online easier and quicker. It could be a vine and the leaves...

I decided to repot my shohin Fukien Tea as it was no longer showing signs of thriving in its pot. Once, I removed the tree from the pot it was neither root bound or suffering from any root afflictions so I put it down to a poor soil mix it had been in for can't remember how long. After A...

I started out with three very, very similar junipers in one container hanging down in three different directions. They all basically looked like this about 2-3 three years ago. Just all straight with no movement. After deciding how to make them all look different. And facing the fact that the...

I am looking at getting some proper bonsai tools. Now I am not a brand conscious person I am just looking for a decent enough tool to work with. I know bonsai tools are not essential and I have been coping just fine (very subjective) without them. I have been into bonsai for over 6 years now and...

I bought this ficus about 4 years ago in a bargain section of a nursery. It was neglected with little branching and fewer leaves. It had no price on it and I asked and got a good price. So I decided to buy it to 'play' with. How it look after some TLC and left in same bad substrate: 2011 (It is...

I bought 2 ficus as a generical styled semi cascades about 2.5 years ago. Both looked like this one: After 2 years of development, the above picture ficus looks like this after a defoliation: I am thiking to remove all the branches to the left stopping at the first upward curve of the main...

I saw this beautiful display online a year or so ago and saved the image. After contemplating setting up something reminiscent of this, I started looking for a suitable pot. Once I found the pot, I looked at the trees I have been prepping. This is how the elm I used looked at the end of...

Hi, I planted a ficus microcarpa sapling onto an old tree trunk in the hopes of creating a bonsai that resembles how a strangler fig would grow on and eventually kill the tree using the old trunk as its own. This is not a tanuki but more of a "root over trunk". I would really appreciate some...

I am rather new to bonsai. I have had one banyan fig for 3 years and recently upgraded to a total of 11 trees now: 5 banyan figs 1 Japanese maple 1 Buddhist Pine (seedling) 1 juniper (not sure of species maybe chinensis 2 unknown small trees that I want to find a third for to make a group...