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I have a box of small-sized Akadama soil I bought on Ebay from House of Bonsai. They sell them for 25 dollars plus 19 shipping. Any takers at 20 bucks for the box? I only opened it for the photos, it's completely full. Located in Van Nuys, CA; and LOCAL PICKUP ONLY, please.

Picked the tree up on ebay for 90 bucks BIN. Looked like it had potential. Here it as when I got it NOV 2014: Here it was this weekend: And here it is now: Back: I never got a good candidate for my main low branch on the right side. Last summer, I attempted my first ever graft by...

I've had this Crabapple (don't know the variety, sorry) for a couple years now. Started as a little shrub of prebonsai material, which I selected for its trunk movement and nice lower branching (the radial rooted flaring base was a nice surprise). In my vision, this will be the center trunk of a...

My Tiger Barks are waking up early this year, so I'm starting to the repot. The first one, I call the Peanut Butter Ficus (it'll make sense momentarily). It was purchased at a regular nursery and was growing next to a schefflera in the same pot. I found that it had large tuber roots under the...

I thought I'd share this interesting video from an old Disney TV program. It depicts four different artists (all Disney greats) each painting a picture of the same tree, showing how different eyes interpret the same subject. One of the artists, Marc Davis (designer of the Haunted Mansion and...

Just picked up this fat kashima palmatum. The top is a jumble of options, I plan on trying for some cuttings. I bought it with the intent of some sort of sumo, but I'm not sure how far I should take it down. Thoughts on where to cut? I'm not afraid of starting from a stump, as that was the...

Doesn't sound right together, does it? I found this interesting unlabeled thornless flowering quince at the nursery today. At first it looked like a bunch of suckers, but looking closer revealed a bird nest style "trunk" of tigthly gnarled trunks and roots about the shape of a big fat pine cone...