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Good evening all, I haven't posted in a couple years. I was living in SE Pennsylvania but I relocated back to the Orlando area in 2019. I have a couple tropical bonsai in desperate need of work but when I visited a local nursery a couple weeks ago, Green's Nursery, they had some nice juniper...

Well, after a fairly long, cold winter (only my second keeping trees here in PA), I have had a number of trees either not wake up at all, or start to leaf out weakly, then die. I have also had a few that are just leafing out weakly and I am not entirely sure what could have happened. I...

Just came in today. I think it could make an interesting accent plant, or perhaps even bonsai. I really like the gnarly, twisted growth habit and, as it is a tundra(!) plant, it won't be needing winter protection ever. Pictures tomorrow (the ones I took did not save).

As many have probably seen, the medium and long range forecast for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic is showing some very cold air arriving within the next week. Based on my limited knowledge and the computer model runs I have seen, the magnitude of this cold at the coldest temperatures forecast...

I remember a few members on here trying this species for bonsai. Any updates? I had many times noted its characteristics as appearing to be suitable for bonsai when seeing stands growing on sandy soils in the Orlando area. Though the species has a limited natural distribution in the wild...

I really love oaks and I hope to create a few decent bonsai in the coming years. I have several seedlings from acorns collected locally, but the few that I have that are at the pre-bonsai stage have been purchased in the past year from various sources. The one exception to this is my live oak...

Here in SE Pennsylvania, it has been a mild, wet summer, as summers go in this area. We have had regular, soaking rains and generally warm temperatures, with little truly hot weather. The nights are already cooling down slightly from where they were last month. I am wondering if my Japanese...

Since it is the peak of the summer season, and this is the time a year where we bonsai practitioners deal with hot conditions the most, I thought it would be interesting and perhaps helpful to discuss trees which have been found to be, to varying degrees, heat intolorant when grown in pots. The...

I was trimming the new growth of my large Japanese maple last night when I came across the below pictured damage to the bark/trunk. See third photo. I am pretty pissed off as I have no idea as to the cause or what I could do to prevent this sort of injury in the future. It is discouraging from...

I just wanted to share a photo of my Florida strangler fig pre-bonsai, from a seedling pulled from the top of a parking garage in South Miami Beach in summer 2012. About 4 years ago, I fastened the sapling atop a dome made of 3 inverted terra cotta pots so it would eventually grow roots in a...

So I was down at Conastoga Nursery in East Earl, PA today. This place has the best selection of trees of any nursery in PA that I have seen. Additionally, for a nursery that is not officially a bonsai focused nursery, it has many bonsai suitable tree species in smaller sizes and a lot of small...

I understand the conventional wisdom for temperate deciduous bonsai is to withhold fertilizer until 2-8 weeks after a tree leafs out in spring. Does this only apply to newly repotted trees and/or to established specimen bonsai to prevent damage to roots and control growth respectively? Is...

Hello All, I picked up this collected Englemann spruce about four weeks ago from Nature's way nursery(see first new tree of 2017 thread). I really like the growth pattern and small needles, which has been compared to that of Ezo spruce. I would like some input and advice on future styling...

This is my first winter "up north" and I am really enjoying the consistent chill and a bit of snow, but each month of fall and winter so far has been above average and though this area isn't exactly Buffalo, NY, there has still been a lack of snow conpared to a typical SE PA winter. My trees...

Happy New Year to all the other bonsai nuts out there! I thought I would start by posting my first tree of 2017: an interestingly shaped multi-trunked yamadori Engelmann spruce from Nature's Way Nursery. This one might make an excellent windswept style and I really like the degree of...

I was at Home Depot this evening looking at their selection of live Christmas trees, which were all grouped outside on the corner. I saw the same old dwarf alberta spruce, some kind of cypress and the $50 Colorado blue spruce in the fancy holiday pot, as well as the stone pine and some other...

I did a bonsainut search and was unable to find a single thread devoted to the topic of this Taiwan native trident maple subspecies. Since this maple is widely utilized for bonsai in parts of Asia and could likely survive and do well in very low chill climates where tridents may not do so well...

I could not find a dedicated detailed thread on overwintering Acer buergerianum on here, so I thought a thread addressing this topic might be helpful, no that we are well into fall. Since I have recently relocated to the warm zone 6b environs of SE PA, I need to become an expert at keeping my...

Lately, I have been collecting random seedlings and saplings to train as potential pre-bonsai in the future. My budget may be tight but I still enjoy acquiring new material, however small it may be. I don't have the time or resources to go on collecting trips to find yamadori or dig thicker...

I wanted to share and get feedback on my favorite tropical bonsai subject. Here is my Buttonwood (Conocarpus erectus) after a bit of much needed attention. I purchased this tree in March 2006 from a vendor at the annual Leu Gardens plant sale here in Orlando. The tree had all of the shari at...

I have found a few local sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) seedlings to start out with, as this species is one of relatively few native deciduous, broadleaf trees that grow to majestic proportions here. I would also like to find a few (or even just one) small Liquidambar orientalis to start...

In 2006, I decided I had to have a live oak bonsai originating from a beautiful ancient tree right near my parent's former house. This tree must be 300 years old, the trunk is gargantuan. I grew my tree from an acorn sprouted in 2006 and grown in the ground, with a wooden slab underneath the...

Hello everyone, I am basically new to the Bonsai Nut forums, though I had officially signed up years ago. I have been working with trees for the past 18 years or so, with a few years off here and there. The past 5-7 years, I have essentially been trying to maintain the few trees I have...