Best original authors tree.

[Chuah]

Kashima maple as it looked after suffering severe dieback from winter damage in 2012.

Very beautiful, Sergio.

 

[BobbyLane]

Cool thread!

This is a Hawthorn i picked up from a nursery in spring this year-apr 2016
2016-06-27_04-06-10 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
Bobby Lane, on Flickr
2016-06-27_04-06-58 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr

Still in training, here it is today
IMG_2197 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
2016-09-27_05-04-28 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr

 

[Anthony]

Bobby, nicely done.
@BobbyLane ,

My only worry would be that driftwood, is it durable ?
I have noted even after the various treatments, some heartwoods still fail.
Good Day
Anthony

 

[BobbyLane]

@Anthony Hello, Yes Hawthorn wood is quite soft actually and the dead wood will have ronseal wet rot wood hardener applied periodically, thus far ive only really carved into the already dead side/bits of the tree, i can see where the live veins are and have not touched them, i stopped carving into the heartwood where it began to show a whiter colour.

This Copper beech i acquired from a nursery in winter 2015
IMAG3898 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
IMG_8520 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr

Today
IMG_9740 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr

 

[petegreg]

Harland boxwood, the only one I found in the shop, just 1 year progression, wiring + selective clip & grow...

 

[petegreg]

Crabapple, was fed up with this tree, chopped 2 years ago.

 

[petegreg]

Cotoneaster from my mother's garden, same story short story, it had two or three trunks, went nowhere, shohin after 2 seasons.

 

[petegreg]

Common Juniper, one year after collected...




...and after three seasons with me.




Those all are pretty short time projects and just begin their bonsai life...

 

[vaibatron]

Privet, dug from my fence line in March 2015.

Was treating it like a topiary. Guy wires come off this fall/winter and it will be fully wired and carved.

 

[Vance Wood]

Common Juniper, one year after collected...

View attachment 118862


...and after three seasons with me.

View attachment 118863


Those all are pretty short time projects and just begin their bonsai life...

They are all young but all have direction and promise.

 

[petegreg]

They are all young but all have direction and promise.

Thank you, I've got some older trees, but much slower in getting there...

edit: these short term projects keep us going.

 

[MACH5]

Acer Palmatum forest 1999.





Summer 2016.

 

[namnhi]

Acer Palmatum forest 1999.





Summer 2016.

Wow, This is one of the best looking forest. Loved it. Nice photography too.

 

[Vance Wood]

Acer Palmatum forest 1999.





Summer 2016.

Very nicely done. It is not easy to make a forest that looks like a real forest where the "birds can fly through" beautiful.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

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The surface that juniper is sitting on looks pyschadelic as I scroll up and down.

A Toyo Nishiki.

Feb. 2014


Oct. 2014


Jul. 2016

 

[Cadillactaste]

Most all my material was purchased prebonsai...which others had somewhat started them on their way. The few nursery finds...in my earlier jaunts now found home in the landscape. I have been training this sucker of an Amethyst Falls wisteria heading into our third winter...was thinking a quirky trunk cascade. But, not set in stone...I could go to a more practical direction now that my passion for cascades has diminished. This I would have to say...is the only thing I own that is even remotely trained by me. And it's far from anything yet...just letting it do its thing and thicken while its at it. No rush...I've seen what a sucker in a pot verses in ground thickens. It pays to leave where it is for some more time.

 

[Paradox]

Ilex crenata

April 2014 as purchased from a landscape nursery



June 2016

 

[Paradox]

Hinoki Cypress

September 2014 (purchased at MABS in May 2014)



August 2016

 

[Paradox]

Brazilian Rain Tree

June 2014 as purchased from a pre-bonsai nursery



August 2016 - after repotting, needs more trimming

 

[Paradox]

J. procumbens nana

April 2012 after I almost killed it the previous summer because it was inside




August 2016 after a trim. Not a fantastic tree but its the one Ive had the longest.