Free Ficus Nerifolia. Aka willow leaf ficus

[Polcyn]

The maple goes outside right?
Can I see the ginkgo too?
You have your hands full then for now.
They will grow well this time of year. Fatten them up.

Trident is outside all day. Illinois is in a cold as hell spring so it sleeps with me at night. Still waiting on my ginkgo and cherry to arrive.

Ebay pics attached.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

I'm in Illinois too. Ginkgo will be fine outdoors all year. For winter if ginkgo is on plastic pot or mica pot, just bury pot to rim in a spot with winter shade, then forget about it until spring. Once buds turn green in spring, dig up and move back to full sun. If in ceramic bonsai pot, an unheated garage or porch, should work. It needs the cold rest.

What kind of cherry? Tropical bush cherry, Eugenia? Or winter hardy flowering cherry?

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

All nice choices for bonsai by the way.

 

[Polcyn]

Its a Dwarf Barbados Cherry. Wigert stock.... Kind of a late night impulse buy, but I think it will be a cool little tree!

 

[bonsaiboy60077]

I'm in Illinois as well.... have a better name for this state and city I am near but this is not the place for those names, Had my dog out for his walk the other morning and found a couple different seedlings growing in the gravel part of a bike path and liberated them from it. Thought for sure the little eastern red bud was going to expire since didn't get many roots out with him, lost a bunch of leaves except for the tiny ones, but they have perked up now that its been a couple weeks, and also some kind of maple that didn't mind being ripped out of the hard gravel and is growing with no leaf loss. Also got a nice Fukien tea on the Lowes clearance rack, that was in an awful pot, bone dry since they don't seem to know to water plants, and he is all lively and happy since I put him in a nice bonsai pot and soil and make sure he has water. he seems to be happy under my table lamp.... however thinking about putting him outside soon since the weather has seemed to make up its mind and remain spring/summer like finally.