sharp's pygmy

I purchased two beautiful sharps pygmy japanese maples in nursery pots this spring. One of them I potted up in an oversized bonsai pot with akadama and pumice and pruned ~50% of the roots. That one is doing wonderfully. The other one I left in the nursery pot and did some minor pruning to the...

Got this at an "intermediate" class at Bonsai West. Wasn't too impressed with the class, information seemed much more beginner. Basically just did a repot and light pruning. This is my first "real" JM, so we'll see how it goes. It is a grafted tree, but the graft isn't bad. At the class...

This is actually my last purchase 😂. Just a nursery stock one and seems appropriate for my lighting conditions. There is a graft but the union is smooth and I could always air layer it. Was hoping to get some help with the choosing of the front. Think I’m leaning towards 1 or 2. Have some...

I obtained this Sharp's Japanese Maple stock last year from a local nursery and it underwent its first styling during the Fall. At the end of Fall I decided that the maple needed a better secondary structure and potentially better development of primary branches. This year I will allow about...

Hi all, With spring fast approaching up here in southern Ontario it's time I start making some hard decisions on this pygmy. I picked it up at the end of last season at my LGC called Lakeside, hence the title name. The tree has two main dominant trunk lines so I've used Peter Chan's paperbag...

First repotting of my new Sharp's Pygmy Japanese Maple. Ready for training in the Kaikou School of Bonsai.