celtis

In the spring of 2020 I dug up a few celtis australis trees that grew on an abandoned lot near my house. There were hundreds of seedlings left untouched for about 10 years under the parent tree, an 90 year old huge tree. Although the leaves are not so pretty (the tree is also called nettle...

Hackberry pre bonsai. Full view.

Hackberry trunk view.

Same hackberry, different view.

Hackberry pre-bonsai. Ground planted.Trunk view.

I was lucky enough to be given a bunch of small Celtis in nursery bags and decided to make a few into bonsai. I cut the nursery bags and put them around the taproot with a pipe clamp to force roots to the sides. This was in 2008. I don't have pics of the individual trees, but did basically the...

Looking forward to collecting a few trees this spring! As I am new to bonsai I figured I’d get some input on which ones are worth collecting and which ones are probably not worth the trouble. 1• Buckley oak (Quercus buckleyii) 2• Rusty blackhaw (Viburnum rufidulum) 3• Gum bumelia (Sideroxylon...

I was cleaning these up tonight and I thought I would snap a quick pic. About a year ago I got some pretty good size Chinese Hackberry starters. I cut the entire tap root off in some cases this left very little rootage. Then I stuffed them tight against the bottom of a 3" pot where they have...

Yesterday i picked up this celtic sinensis! i will get it trough winter and then next season we will see where the new branches emerge and think of a design for this trunk and start building a nice tree from this stump Its been chopped by the preveous owner carved and treated :) Tell me...

Just wanted to share this nice tree, collected Dec, now at the end of summer. There was a point where I spent half hour every day to thin out the clumps of buds it was making, leaving only one at a spot for about two weeks, after that the weak shoots came and I covered it in plastic inside the...