progression

I let myself get this. There just isn't any info on anyone's attempts to make a respectable bonsai with this China Doll type plant. Bought with the classic fake moss and superglued rocks from Home Depot 12/24. Pruned a bit and repotted same week I bought it. It is currently repotted in a...

Having spent some more time on BonsaiNut - I've learned the preferred approach for requesting beginner advice is to consolidate a tree into a single thread. This will also be useful for me to keep track of previous work / thought processes. So here we are. Part 1: Purchase I wanted to invest...

I haven’t posted in a while, but I’ve been very busy working on my collection and learning on the collections of others. I’ve posted this hemlock in various threads I believe, but nowhere consolidated yet. It’s not done, but I wanted to post this photo that I think demonstrates how far my...

Wanted to start some progress threads on my trees to share their progress and of course seek advice. This past winter / spring / summer I lost all of my outdoor trees and all but two of my tropicals. I was in and out of the hospital with some surgeries and my trees were not getting the care that...

Hey everyone, Over the past few days, evertime I've found time, I've worked on a solution for a problem I had laying arround in my head. Since here on bnut theres no option to print a thread directly, to store it as a file on your pc, to come back later and view it. I decided to create a...

Starting a progression thread for this spruce I got today couldn't pass on the price. When looking at it at the store I saw a possible good front. I removed just enough to see the front I like. I will let this get used to it's new home before doing any major work.

Someone in my neighbourhood had dug up a hedge of lingustrum/privets. The base is thick, and I definetly see potential if it survives some heavy pruning, which privets usually do. Plan is to remove all but two trunks in the spring, and create a double trunk styled tree. I will also prune these...

I figure this tree has evolved enough to warrant my first progression thread on Bnut, so here goes! When the bonsai bug bit me back in November of last year, this was the very first shrub I bought with intentions of making it a little tree.: Juniperus sabina 'Blue Forest'. Probably overpriced...

This will be a progression/diary thread for my two Junipers. I bought these off of ebay for what I would say is a decent enoigh price (£9.50/$12.15 each) in P9 pots - if you think its not a good deal, politely keep quiet about it, it’s the best I could do and seemed reasonable to me so I’m happy...

I’ve had this little spruce for a couple of years. I think it’s a dwarf Alberta spruce, but I’d have to find the tag (if I still have it) to be sure. It had a rough time and lost some branches when it was first planted in this very shallow pot a year or two ago, but appears to be on the mend now.

I’ve had this little mugo for a couple of years now. I think I repotted it into this blue plastic container last year. Here it is in spring 2024:

Started a second air layer on the parent plant from which the Arakawa #1 layer was harvested.

I’ve had this tree for several years, but never got around to starting a progression thread for it. I’ve also neglected to take pictures of it before. Here it is in spring 2024. I started this a few years back, after taking a root over rock workshop with Pauline Muth. The rock here is...

Hello everyone! So I’m completely new to this. Never had any real interest in bonsai before but my grandad gave me a bonsai growing kit he’d recieved the other year (he’s 90 and has an absolutely amazing green thumb with veg and flowers, but said he won’t get much use out of the kit at his...

Hey Bonsai Nuts! While I am only entering my 5th year of practice and have so much to learn I am intrigued to see the difference of growth and change of the projects over the years. Of the ones I have kept alive...I'll start with just a couple that are decent enough to show progress. I would...

Just wanted to start posting progress of my trident as I keep forgetting and then another year goes by and I can’t remember what it used to look like. I’ll post each progress photo I do have separately. Tree roughly as I got it summer 2020 as pre bonsai from Bonsai West: Potted it up to a...

This is a fun one. One of the first trees I ever started, all from a posting on Facebook marketplace for I think $15-$20. In the summer of 2021, I drove out to the middle of nowhere, where this woman was selling this schefflera which was haphazardly laying in a pile of other plants in the woods...

My mom bought this pencil thin juniper for $50 a few years back when I first was starting out and stopped at a bonsai nursery. Here's the tree right when she got it in August of 2021: Pencil thin, planted in a concrete container with glued on rubber feat and vaguely threaded onto some...

Regretfully there are no earlier photos of this tree… at least so far. The tree was dug by Andy Smith of Golden Arrow Bonsai in 2020 with and estimated age of 45 years. age. We acquired in Feb 2022. I wired the tree in Sept 2022 and Jennifer Price helped with the initial styling. It was...

So this is my first Japanese Maple. I got it for free from a club member who stated pretty frankly that he was 65 and had started way to many trees from seed for a man his age. It was coming into leaf at the time and I just fed and watered it through the summer. Now it's fall and I finally...

Greetings! Received a Black Hills Spruce raft 9/22/2022 from Andy Smith at Golden Arrow Bonsai. It has four trunks and a somewhat eclectic layout, with great promise as a practice project. Here’s a suite of screen grabs from Andy‘s preview movie taken just before it was sent here. Andy had...

I bought this white pine from my local nursery during their fall tree sale. I find the foliage of ‘Aoi’ stunning, and the growth habit looks compelling for an upright or slanting pine. Its also one of the cultivars listed in the Bonsai Today book, so somebody’s using them for bonsai. When I...

Started from high elevation collected seed obtained from Sheffield’s in 2022. Trimmed it and wired up a new leader today. Before: After:

Started from seed in spring 2022 with seed from Sheffield’s. The seed was collected from a grove at high elevation, so it’s supposed to be more cold hardy than typical coastal redwoods. Trimmed it and wired up a new leader today. Placed it in partial shade for the recovery afterward. Before...

I’ve had this tree for a while, but apparently I’d never gotten around to creating a progression thread for it. Started from seed in fall of 2017, but I don’t have photos going back that far. Here it is in July 2021: September 2021 (white patches are cold damage, I believe — I’ve come to...