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Here is my windswept hornbeam, restyled this winter. I'm looking for pot/slab recommendations or even virts. I'm leaning toward slab with a rock/wall behind the tree. The vision being the rock/wall sheltered the tree for many a year & then the elements hit it. Any suggestion will be...

Hi, can you please give your advice on how to hide/disguise a trunk chop. What are the techniques for making a chop blend in to the rest of the tree. Does anyone have photo's of the process from chop to blending in. Also when is the best time to try to work on a chop. The tree in question for me...

Hey guys, I have recently seperated a few chinese elm airlayers to great success. Roots are pooring out of the pond basket having only been in the baskets for 8 days. The only issues I have, are a few so called roots are appearing in the wrong places. Almost half way up the trunk! Is it just a...

Silly question I know, but I've never understood how an air layer actually works. My logic tells me the top of the tree above the air layer has basically had it's supply of water/nutrients cut of by the air layer. The reason I ask is that I recently drowned a maple of mine to the point that the...

Can anyone help me with identifying this tree. I was told when I first acquired the tree what it was. Unfortunately when I first got it I wasn't overly impressed with it so I just kind of forgot about it. Since then I've taken another look recently & kind of like what I see, especially the dead...

I have quite a few larch pre-bonsai, but 2 are showing sign, I think of illness. Basically both have been repotted this spring, into my normal medium which consists of cat litter, perlite & river grit. I have fed these at the same time as my other repotted larch but these in the last 2 weeks...

Hi guys, I was wondering if there is a rule regarding the length of branches compared to the height of a tree. I think I'm right in the thinking that the height to diameter (at the base) ratio is 6-1. I was wondering if there was a similar rule for branches. I'm just thinking out loud really...

This was a 6 foot hawthorne that I trunk chopped this spring & put in a pond basket. As you can see it is putting out new shoots everywhere. It is also putting out new shoots really low down, their even coming up from below soil level. Is there any chance of turning some of these lower shoots...

Hi guys, as the title says I'm after a little advice regarding some of my larch trees. A few of them have needles turning brown at the tips. But it's not all over the tree, just on certain branches. I have recently repotted the tree's (this spring), but I haven't done anything different than I...

This larch was recently given to me for free. It had been badly neglected by the previous owner who had just fallen out of love with the tree & bonsai!!! It was very badly pot bound & was in normal potting compost. The roots went around & around the pot & some were very thick. I was hoping I...

This is the very first REAL bonsai that I have bought. I posted it on another thread & it was suggested to me that it deserves it's own thread. So here it is. What do you think? Any suggestions for a future path I should take with it, or am I doing ok.

Hello to all, Although I've been in to bonsai for some time I still class myself as a newbie. This is why I'm asking for some guidance. To me there isn't enough taper in the main trunk. But I dont know how low to chop the trunk to grow the new leader, or whether its feasible to do so. If so...