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Not 100% sure why but my Senjumaru (sport of Kotobuki) JBP has suffered total root system death. Initially assumed weevils but there’s not much evedence. Did have an original very compact gritty inner rootball and I potted up into looser mix….might be frost, might be over-watering…anyway. The...

Trying to minimise my collection, UK mainland only but constructive feedback welcome! This is a semi-trained Field Maple, if doesn’t sell I’ll air layer it next year I expect to get two shohin. The biggest cut is fully healed. Pot is broken and glued! Asking £145 plus £10 for UPS, UK mainland...

…has anyone tried it? I read 48h in a bucket does the trick for “patio plants”, I think we’d all be wanting the absolute minimum time in hours! (Especially Pines etc….Willows on the other hand would be fine!) But starting at one end of the bench with an overnight dip and working along, (?)...

This tree always does this, evenly - has anyone else seen this? Options I see are pests (can’t see any and too even), virus, or mutation!

I’ve got a few of these I did in Feb as experiments, the graft seems to be taking but I do wonder if the “dwarf” factor will be lost from the Beuvronensis due to the JBP rootstock! We’ll see, in the meantime the scion’s candle seems happy enough. Of course JBP roots need more care in the UK than...

I pruned off the lower of two “nebari levels” on a San Jose Juniper and thought what a shame - so I snipped off a scion of Blaauws and did a simple cleft graft. Nothing to lose in trying! I lined up the side with the shoot given that junipers only think in straight lines, so we’ll see...

Trying to fathom all the implications of this for small scale mail order sellers WITHIN the UK. Has anyone spoken to APHA about bonsai by any chance in case there’s some handy exception (I’m not holding my breath!)...

I wired this before sticking it in the ground, I initially wanted to go Neagari but one root took over too fast. The thinner root left a spiral groove that looks just like wire scarring! I’m layering it to re-start a nebari, it can’t get any thicker without some silly reverse taper appearing...

Corin Tomlinson at Greenwood has started producing videos: ...and so has “this guy”, safe to say there will be more to come!

I’ve wanted one for years, finally picked this up mail order from Corin Tomlinson / Greenwood. I think it’s a bit weak (one dead lower branch, one probably past saving), I dropped it out the pot and it appears to be in mostly pure grit with some old Akadama or fertiliser near the trunk, the...

I grabbed a bushy rooted cutting (3-4 yr old) and started wiring it indoors the other day as it was raining, didn't have too much of a plan so I didn't take any "before" photos and of course now I wish I had. I could reduce it to three trunks and it would be a more effective minimal image that...

I was looking for a Kotobuki to graft to my other JBP when I saw this Jap import, looked Senjumaru up and it appears it’s even better than (and related to) Kotobuki so I grabbed it! I took a photo compared to a straight JBP 2yr tree to show how the needles compare. It’s in really compact...

Unimpressed! ..and another... ...so now I have two large expensive cuttings. Fingers crossed!!!

I’m repotting my quince and 70% have had all their roots / lower bark eaten! Pots full of fat smug looking Larvea. Actually one tree has started growing new roots/nebari in a natural insect-powered ground layer!

I bought this one as a bonsai but it was very weak with loads of root rot, compacted old gritty soil and a woodlouse hotel in the pot. So I overpotted it to let it recover for two years. This spring I decided to start dealing with the rootball. I had to cut back fairly hard to get the imbedded...

I started these in April last year:

I dropped into an unfamiliar garden centre I was passing last month for a nose round and in the middle of their assorted £20-30 2-year grafted Acer display was this big old Deshojo with no price! Signs of old dieback but it’s in compost and it’s a very exposed windy location so I thought it’s...

I’m finding horrible amounts of root rot as I’m repotting this year - maples mainly so far but junipers too. I’m switching to a better draining mix and will probably have to do EVERY tree as a result but I wonder if it’s partly due to the record amounts of rain and if it’s affected anyone else’s...

I've been hoarding to try and get all 1-108 and once one last package arrives I've finally done it...! So I'll be selling all the duplicate issues, each row is sequential with no gaps, on some there are a few copies of each issue (in red). There's 59 different issue numbers up for grabs, more...

I've been meaning to have a proper go at one of these for a while. First go at copper wire too, nice to use in an annoying kind of way... I normally hate these plastic training pots but actually for a 2-stage rootball reduction I suppose they are handy!!! Most branches left untrimmed / overly...

Let's have a stab at this - southeast UK - seeds just bought: dollar_seeds on eBay, two packets of 10-off Mikawa JBP & www.bonsaiplaza.com, two packets of ?-off Mikawa JBP (also, if allowable) treeseedonline.com from an order I did in April 2017, "5 grams" of leftover plain JBP seeds Let's see...

Lets see some drawings of trees (large and small, not just bonsai!) including designs, computer drawn - whatever you've done and would like to share! :cool: The idea isn't for design feedback etc, more a gallery/scrapbook. I did these last week while on holiday, totally imaginary trees...

Just a progression - I got this group off eBay and split it up. This one needed a deep pot as the roots were in "two layers". I tried keeping the other two trees indoors to see if I could manage it - the mites had a go at them, one died and the other lost loads of branches....fail. This one...

I've been slowly shortening the (dead straight) branches on this for a couple of years to try and get some foliage on the more interesting areas nearer the trunk......and so far I've preserved all the branches I can so I've got more design possibilities. I've left more length on the thinner...

First thread! :p - 2012 - I dug this MANY years ago from my Gran's garden, and was going to air layer off all the branches but never got round to it. I decided to get a move on and treated the 1.5" offcuts as giant cuttings, most of which have rooted (in a bucket of water)...