Dip "your" toe in the Bonsai Exhibit World.

[Smoke]

Elms from Root Cuttings

 

[Smoke]

 

[Smoke]

Originally a Chinese Import "S" shaped tree, not really raw stock. I thought the transformation was very interesting so I included it since even BVF included a picture of someone else working on his tree

 

[Smoke]

Common Myrtle From Fire Ravaged Home

 

[ianb]

California Juniper 2010

And after initial styling 2015

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

How about a root over rock trident maple...2010:

2015:

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

For Vin; Ilex crenata. Hacked down from 5' tall and 8' wide landscape shrubs planted in the early 1950s (owner's father built the house, they grew up in it. It was the first house on the street).
2012:


Transferred to my growing bed:

2015. Long way to go, but a fat boy no doubt!

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

This is a Chinese elm I bought at Bonsai Northwest in Seattle in 1997. This photo was from around 2003:

It produced several good root cuttings. Here is one in the ground around 2012:

Which was chopped low, dug and root pruned in 2013. Really ugly.

Potted in 2015. An interesting and promising little shohin:

 

[leatherback]

Potentialla, collected may 2013



And may 2015, 2 years. All own work.

 

[leatherback]

This one needs a bit more growing out, but still nice already.

Olive, garden centre stock, june 2013


June 2015 after drastic reduction, pads are starting to develop:

 

[MACH5]

Collected RMJ in South Dakota.

BEFORE



AFTER

 

[PaulH]

Most of my trees are in the do it yourself category but I don't have before pictures. This one is a Privet. Dug up in my yard in 2008 where it came up as a volunteer weed. The second photo is in 2014 at the GSBF convention exhibit.

 

[PaulH]

Deodar cedar that started as our live Chrismas tree purchased at OSH and chopped down to size right after the holidays in 2009.

 

[Dav4]

Yew dug from a hedge in upstate NY. It spent maybe 10 minutes in Ryan Neil's hands as he helped my reposition the apex...which promptly died 6 weeks later. No one else has touched this tree but me.

 

[Dav4]

Satsuki azalea acquired as recently imported and bare rooted stock. I had already removed a fair amount of unwanted foliage and branches when the first picture was taken.

 

[Dav4]

Japanese maple I started from a cutting I made from another tree that has been swimming with the fishes for over a decade. The picture with the cuttings was lifted off google, but from what I can remember, it looked JUST like that.

 

[VAFisher]

I think it's pretty obvious these are my work. If it was someone else's work, I wouldn't embarass them by putting it up here...

I bought several dwarf crapes from a local nursery that looked like this:



And here is my best effort with them. It's filled out a lot more since this picture and I've started using the other side as the front but you get the idea.

 

[PaulH]

"Fat Ollie". One third of a 100 year old olive stump that had been dug out with a backhoe and left for dead sitting upside down. New shoots started as soon as I potted it and the second pic is in our club show.

 

[MACH5]

Japanese maple which by air layering one of its lower branches and then grafting it at its base I created a multi-trunk design.

 

[Kandoloh]

You all have some wonderful trees!