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Got mine. Kinda sad, as I am not renewing.

Of course, these shears are not very good for bonsai, anyway. They're usually used for ikebana.

Confused. Bill V publishes International Bonsai, a fine magazine. There also is Bonsai Clubs International's "Bonsai" magazine. Then there are "foreign" bonsai magazines in German, Italian, English and Japanese. Which do you mean?

Cherry? Lots of those in DC.

MUCH too early for that or any other bonsai pot.

FWIW and IMHO, NO evergreen deserves an illustrated pot, and for the most part no bonsai wants to be planted in one. The mark of the amatur bonsiest. Possible exception is feminine mame/shohin trees. No others!

You can always tell a lazy man. This line or one like it ALWAYS shows up. There IS a rong (er, wrong) way. Sign me: I don't know anything about art, but I know what I like.

Last I heard, that was/is the goal for juried shows. Otherwise, just stand by your tree and fart each time they pass by.

These don't come in "cultivars" (man-made versions of the species). That is Ligustrum sinensis, pure and simple and 100% exotic and invasive weed.

And ice on the branches/leaves/needles actually acts as an insulator and keeps tmps from plummeting. This isn't a juniper, but a semi-evergreen tree:

That works for private viewing and maybe at an informal show, but for more serious settings, there tend to BE rules. It's called "tradition."

Yes, you CAN plant in a metal pot, but aside from the "gee whiz" factor or the "look-what-I've-done" glow, why would you want to do it? I've seen bonsai planted in wheel rims, pie tins, and brass decorative items and in all cases the trees looked confused and out of place. But if it give you...

I think a shallow oval pot will be a better choice than a slab. Privet don't represent the kinds of trees that you'd see on a bare rock. Good luck and have fun with the CONTINUOUS maintenance this will need. We don't call these "weeds" on a whim.

I doubt it. They need considerable amounts of cold dormancy.

It depends. If the two tails go together, keep them. If they go off and away from each other, choose one (or none). I like mine as a two-tiled cascade, but when on branch died, it was OK as a singleton, too. Unfortunately, I don't have a pic of that, and I no longer have the tree.

That may be the silliest answer I've seen here. Mica pots ARE bonsai pots -- their appearance goes well beyond superficiality. They're much more durable than any other pot you will find (drop them from 3 floors up and they won't break <but remove the tree first>). Plastic pots look like --...

Bill V will tell you that if you are showing an old hoary tree, it does not want to be sitting on a brand, spanking new stand. Stands develop a "patina", too. You can NOT have just one.

A few examples from my collection of stones that "fit" and stones that are at least fairly "interesting" and not just rocks:

A comment on geological aesthetics: You usually find boulders in a natural grouping are all of the same kind/color/composition, and the grain (strata) will all be running in the same direction. I don't think you want to group the dark stones with the light ones. A comment on bonsai/geology...

Is that 4th picture the same stone? The first three could well be a chunk of concrete. There's nothing says you can't plant a tree over it, though -- but I see nothing in the stone that would appreciably improve a planting. Eye of the beholder, and all that. The 4th picture could be a kind...

That's good, but a bit of gentle education is called for.

But no longer on line, alas.

No, not too much. Cascades for garden juniper bonsai are a copout. That's what they do so that's we WE do. There are many too many juniper cascades in this world, most of them very run of the mill bonsai. And that includes the one I used to have from my early days.

And don't forget the time of year! Lots of Xmas greetings, blather, shopping, returning, testing new equipment (and waiting on help lines). Don't sweat it. Those things just happen -- they go away.

Those holes LanceMac shows are too small to do anything but get clogged up. OK for anchor wires.