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Every body overlooks alder. I don't know why.

Widen your search a little more. Try an alder instead.

After a ten year run of having trees ravaged (by voles) in wither storage, when using organic fertilizers. I switched over to osmocote. I will grant it does not work as well as organics do, but you have to have a live tree before that distinction amounts to a piss-hole in the snow. If your...

As RKatzin notes learn how to forage. Once you train your eye, you'll see the stuph you seek everywhere. It was true for finding arrow-heads 60 years ago, its true now for bonsai-able material.

Common to a goodly amount of ME the northern 1/4 of NH, and top half of VT are larch. it likes wet places to grow. Look in ditches, and ask if you can collect some of the multitude that have been pruned by road crews. Free. The last time I was in the area, the only stipulation from the property...

Older Ace hardware stores often have coated copper wire on bulk spools in electrical department. Close examination should let you select the diameter you want. Stripping off insulation is not that hard.

Free-Cycle or simply asking when you see a landscape remodel. If you take away and find value in what they would have to pay to take to landfill, a good time was had by all.

Look among their back bench. Or trash bin.

The most recently cloned Trumpian meme on face-book is the Florida family with two black face dummies lynched on their front yard with a trump yard sign underfoot. Gee I wonder if it'll be as fun when somebody torches their house.

So much for sharing...

Larch suitable for your zone, is fun project and does the stuff we want (like back-budding). Buy three or five of them even if all they are, are slips.

I saw the other day some ammonite fossils, nicknamed "Birdbaths" that aught to have some real potential as stone bonsai pots.

Thats not R fastigiatum. Now thats a dwarf azalea.

With sweet trees like Japanese maples I stopped 15+ years back using organic fertilizer, it just encouraged mice-voles-chipmunks to girdle my trees.

Again I am describing landscape sized trees and not bonsai.

I find most trees heal right behind where a branch is cut. The stub eventually sluffs off. With hackberry the entire trunk will eventually become hollowed out. Like Birch, the healing point is at the soil line and a new branch grows.

Most of the work I have had to do on american hackberry were on landscape sized trees. I just about always lost the battle on creating a viable horizon between cuts and trunk. I did considerable hand wringing looking over your photos. Maybe it will be different on bonsai sized examples...

Dang! they changed TX Latin. I knew I gave up drinking too soon... Harumph! Ebenopsis ebano indeed harumph!

TX Ebony, Pithecellobium flexicaule. its a legume. Leaves close at night. They stay tiny. Nice tree.

I do live here. I wonder if the Donald thinks he is running for president, or emperor?

Upland (the short ones) grow on the top of the hill in New England. I liked mine as bonsai. Even if they were somewhat ephemeral. Sparkle-berry, huckleberry, never got bushy. They are lovely in a spare sort of way. I got my lowland (the tall ones) late and had to move before having a chance to...

I will die using only osmocoat. It doesn't pefume the tree to the point at which vermin dine on my trees.

If a deciduous conifer must be on your menu, get a few larch. IE larix almost-anything.

Trees left to grow unattended for a period (of years). Larch (cut them short on alternate years). Picea Glehnni, alder (also cut short on alternate years), Quercus robur (cut short every third year). Thats enough to keep you busy for now, You may want to suppliment water the first year.

Dried Japan maple wings are dead. Return to the tree you found old wings under till the next crop comes on. Collect those and cold stratify them promptly. P.S. Cold stratification does not involve freezing seed. Put your pot with seed in, into garden soil up to the rim, Or add a little moist...