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Hey folks, I don't mean to take up a bunch of internet space, but, this one is boggling my heart and mind and I just had to take a minute to share. It's an older JM that I've had for 32 years give or take a few months. In May 2015 my entire yard and bonsai collection were hit by herbicide drift...

Hey folks, this one is an older ( 35 yo) collected landscape tree. After it was put in the landscape maybe 23 years ago, it just sat there sulking, grew maybe 6 inches in two years. One day the in laws were out for lunch and as pa in law backed out to leave, he ran over it turning the trunk from...

Hey folks, I am in need of 10-15 green leaved seedlings or rooted cuttings of green leaved JM for purposes of root grafting, non arakawa,. Someone please point me in the right direction. Thanks

This one was in the background of another thread, a couple of guys asked about it, so here it is. This has been a lot of fun working on even though it's not really a prime specimen. In all honesty, none of my trees are, that's ok, I'm still having fun! After studying this pic, the graft doesn't...

Hey folks, here's an old podocarpus that was part of an old hedge over at Rayford prison over in northeast Florida. It was one from a huge pile of them that we picked from after the hedge was taken up. Ben Oki also picked 10 or 12 of them for his upcoming workshop at the 2nd World Bonsai...

Hey folks, I'm curious.......the last time that I've seen or heard of it was in 1993 at the second world convention in Orlando. It's the original narrow leaf ficus discovered by Joe Samuels, a huge thing with aerial roots dropping out of it's canopy. Styled as a banyon. Incredible bit of work...

Hey folks, haven't been on B/N much lately, I've popped in a few times. I've been kind of bummed out about an incident that occured last year in May. On May 1, on a fairly windy day, approx. 14 mph out of the north, an inconciderate farmer got out in that wind and sprayed herbicide. It was a...

This one is looking pretty good this year, so I thought I'd show it. Tell me what you think. It's an older Wakaebisu approximately 40 yo. I've had it in cultivation 28, 29 years. It stands 30 inches tall with a 2 inch trunk. Entirely container grown. 1st pic after last season, 2nd pic after hard...

Hey folks, this one is a collected landscape Lady Banksia rose. It's 3 years out of the ground. I never expected this thing to develop this fast. It's going to be awhile before I can afford a pot for it, so for now the cement tray is gonna have to do. It stands 30 inches tall, 38 inches wide...

Hey everyone, here are a few pics of one of our live oaks. This one was collected about 8 years ago as a semi dwarfed stump with no branches to speak of. All branches except one or two tiny ones came from buds sprouting after collection. I think that it has developed fairly fast. It's 17 1/2...

Hey folks, in the midst of the flurry of repotting and other tree work, I thought I'd take a minute to post a few pics of our plum tree. Fairly certain that it's prunus salicina, a naturalised plum specie, Japanese I think. It forms thickets , root connected around a parent tree. My daughter...

Hey folks, here are several photos of an older collected tree. Collected 27 years ago from near the St. Mark's river in north Florida. It was a 20 footer cut back to 16 inches or so with no branches whatsoever. I had the expectation of it breaking buds up and down the stump.....the tree had...

Hey folks, Just finished autumn cleanup and wiring of this little guy. It came from Kinsai, but cuttings came from branches with normal flowers, hence the name. a strange plant to say the least. I will add that I like the challenge of strange things like this one. The twist and hollow are...

Hey folks, I thought I would take a minute to post my winged elm. Collected from a north Florida swamp, it measures 22 inches in height, 29 wide not including the sacrifice branches. A 4.5 inch trunk at root level. Approximate age is 75 years, it's been in cultivation for 22 years. I regret that...