Giga
Masterpiece
Those are great finds! I like the first one, maybe get a few other shots. I would love to have that in my garden!
2 European Hornbeams - almost flawless yamadori material
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Shohin
OK, here's few additional photos quickly captured on the phone this morning:
As you can see I photographed from above - this causes the perspective to be skewed a bit - the top seem bigger than it in fact is.
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sorce
Nonsense Rascal
I recently had a co-worker move back to Slovakia.
Home of the "most foolish trophy wife"!
Interesting!
D.T. is not my president either....
Bonsai Nut is!
Nice trees!
Sorce
Home of the "most foolish trophy wife"!
Interesting!
D.T. is not my president either....
Bonsai Nut is!
Nice trees!
Sorce
my nellie
Masterpiece
In lack of the applauding emoticon, I lol
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Shohin
Thanx. Your tree collection has been inspiration for me from since I have visited you almost precisely 1 year ago on April 1st it would seem ;-)
Dalmat
Shohin
Trumpetess is from Slovenia not Slovakia. It is more complicated with languages slovenščina in Slovenia and slovensko in Slovakia.
I have some -esses from both countries and I can't afford to mix those two, if you know what I mean....
Dalmatia is in Croatia . Slovenia is close (bordering with Croatia) Slovakia is further north like 300 km.
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Trumpetess is from Slovenia not Slovakia. It is more complicated with languages slovenščina in Slovenia and slovensko in Slovakia.
I have some -esses from both countries and I can't afford to mix those two, if you know what I mean....
Dalmatia is in Croatia . Slovenia is close (bordering with Croatia) Slovakia is further north like 300 km.
I'm a slov learner!
Sorce
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Shohin
Actually it is slovenščina in Slovenia and slovenčina in Slovakia. Just one letter with strange accent difference. The languages are quite close, but for example Slovaks (as from Slovakia) understand Croats (as from Croatia) much better than people from Slovenia. All the Slavic languages (Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, ...) are quite similar to an ear that has at least a bit of talent for languages.
discusmike
Omono
Nice material!
discusmike
Omono
Every hornbeam in my area is bolt straight
Similar like my experience, except about 1 of 500 in my area is not straight. I just keep looking for that particular one. Timely, exhausting, but it pays off.
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Shohin
Actually I thought the same about here. I was going to forest to pick mushrooms and was always looking for interesting trees. Not much success there for a long time - everything was just straight, no taper. After some time I found one that I thought was OK. Then one day in autumn I wondered into old quarry with my sons and found few trees that I liked (I collected them this spring as well - notice 2 miniature ones):
I returned there in winter to have a look at them and on my way back I stumbled upon these 2 beauties - just few meters apart from each other and like 5 meters from road where I could get with a car. This is how they looked like (you can see the large branch on the smaller one that I cut off already. Also good nebari is visible but it was when I collected it I found it had killer nebari):
So the quarry turned out to be a great resource of trees for me. There are woods all around full of straight trees but as Maros wrote: it pays off to have patience while looking. There are good trees somewhere there.
Vin
Imperial Masterpiece
I'm beginning to not like you already.. 
Waltron
Chumono
vay nice I like
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Shohin
Sorry about that but you haven't yet seen some other material I have collected. Just joking. There are some other interesting trees but none of them has so much potential. I'll post them later in separate threads - probably when I start working on them. So far besides few I bought all my trees were collected this spring or the last one. Before that my bonsai passion has been dormant for 25 years ;-)I'm beginning to not like you already..
Waltron
Chumono
do you hunt morel mushrooms over there too? they will be poppin here soon in Michigan
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Shohin
They are starting to grow right now. Have never been collecting them but I am planning to do so this spring. Just waiting for some rain. I usually go for these in summer/autumn (writing latin names because I only know English names for porcini, chantarelle and oyster mushroom): Boletus Edulis, Neoboletus luridiformis, Xerocomellus chrysenteron, Boletus subtomentosus, Boletus badius, Xerocomellus pruinatus, Cantharellus cibarius, Pleurotus ostreatus and sometimes Amanita rubescens (called blusher?).
