Local Species Awareness Program.

[sorce]

Nutters.
Welcome to L.S.A.P.

This thread is designed to bring to light the species people have in their own neighborhood, that THRIVE, and can best be used for our art.

Please contribute by entering 2 deciduous species, and 1 evergreen, that are THE EASIST SPECIES TO WORK WITH IN YOUR AREA. Include your town, state, elevation if applicable, etc.

This is so we no longer have to watch as folks, in what I consider Excellent areas for material, struggle with box store BS, and other species that are not suitable to their area.

Might as well put the tale of woe tree in too, the one you won't bother trying again.

Thanks. I hope we can make this a good reference. A go to thread.

Sincerely,

Sorce

 

[sorce]

Please don't confuse thrive for jive!

No chives. No lies. No Arguments.

You'll get your L.S.A.P. license with 4 likes.

Sorce

 

[erb.75]

what are your local species sorce? that you like? a lot of species in the midwest have large leaves. I have heard good things about pitch pine (and seen good trees), and those babies you can't find in a box store
I'd love suggestions for naturally growing deciduous in this region

 

[sorce]

Siberian Elm.
Amur Maple.

The only conifer I can find to work relatively well so far is the J. Virginia.
AKA J.Crack.

Chicagoland.

This is cuz I found this thing,

Knows my winter.

And the Hokkaido I can't protect is Probly gonna be a 26 dollar loss.

Gotta start saving that for nice stuff!

Sorce

 

[PaulH]

Quercus agrifolia
Trident maple
Sierra juniper
Many others are just as good here but I'm following your limits.

I'm in the western sierra foothills, Rescue, Ca. about 1000 ft. elevation. Zone 7.

 

[Vin]

Bald Cypress and Crape Myrtle for deciduous
Azalea for evergreen (you did say evergreen not conifer)

 

[M. Frary]

Decidious. American elm.
Decidious. Hawthorn
These 2 by far are the easiest decidious trees to collect here. Haven't lost one yet.
Coniferious. Tamarack or American larch if you will.
Also easy to collect and everywhere.
Tale of woe trees.
Decidious. American hornbeam.
They live after collection but am having a hard time to get one to pop buds any higher than 3 inches from the dirt. Chopped a few out in the woods to see if they will sprout higher that way then collect in spring.
Coniferious. Just getting into collecting pines so not really woe trees for me yet. I want to be able to collect Jack pines with confidence. Dug up 5 this year. 2 lived. I have one and Vance the other.

 

[JoeR]

Virginia Pine

American Hornbeam
Hawthorn or Sweetgum (define 'easy')

All can be found in my yard. I also like blueberry, potentially sparkleberry, american elm (cant find one), select oaks, etc.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Birmingham, AL +/- 600'
Hardy & cooperative d-trees:
Trident Maple
Japanese Maple
Hawthorn
Elms

Hardy & cooperative evergreens:
Boxwoods
Ilex
Japanese Black Pine
Shimpaku juniper

Challenging trees:
Japanese White Pines
Mugo pines
Yew

 

[Paradox]

Long Island NY. Elevation 0-100'

If you mean species that work well for bonsai here but not necessarily native then

Deciduous:
Trident Maple
Japanese Maple
Chinese Elm

Evergreen:
Japanese Black Pine
Junipers (Shimpaku, San Jose, J. procumbens nana)
Azalea
Ilex crenata


If you mean native species then there are no easy ones here. The environment around here does not promote the development of nice yamadori. The weather conditions are not very harsh, and the terrain is mostly flat, coastal woodland (unless you count the land fill up island) dominated by scrub oak. The only native species that people have considered for bonsai are the pitch pine which isn't considered easy at this point (might be if people started using them more) and the Eastern red cedar (J. virginiana) which most people seem to think don't make good bonsai because of their growth habits.

 

[erb.75]

I have always wanted a hawthorn...especially the parsley kind but i'd settle for the regular.

I forgot about amur maple. I have one and it's outstanding! Huge trunk, grows fast, responds well to pruning. The branches are a little sensitive to breaking off at their base if you play around with them, but it's going to be a great tree

 

[RichKid]

I'm going to be following this thread. GREAT IDEA. I've been trying to figure out what I should be looking to collect here in SE Pa or even S jersey but that info is hard to come by. Any suggestions are welcome

 

[sorce]

I'm going to be following this thread. GREAT IDEA. I've been trying to figure out what I should be looking to collect here in SE Pa or even S jersey but that info is hard to come by. Any suggestions are welcome

@GrimLore 's entry may work!

Grimmy!

Sorce

 

[Cotyledon]

Long Island pine barrens zone 6/7

Grows good = japanese maple, burning bush, kousa dog, azalea, juniper

No good = pitch pine (impossible to collect), crepe myrtle

 

[jk_lewis]

A lot of those listed trees are not "local" in the sense of non-imported-exotic-escaped -- crape myrtle, amur maple, Japanese maple, trident maple, etc., all come from non-local original sources.

 

[DougB]

Jim he used "local" and "thrive" not native. I think a native listing would be interesting but of little value. The real interest, as I see it, is what trees around here will thrive in my climate.

 

[Txhorticulture]

South Central texas

Deciduous natives bald cypress and cedar elm and hackberry are all popular bonsai subjects and easy to cultivate.

Our Live oak keeps it's leaves for one year so it's evergreen technically We have a native juniper non native Chinese juniper is easy.

Most pines are difficult with only handful of exceptions. Spruce is a waste of time.

 

[jk_lewis]

Jim he used "local" and "thrive" not native. I think a native listing would be interesting but of little value. The real interest, as I see it, is what trees around here will thrive in my climate.

Then it's not one whit different from any number of other posts asking what trees to use for bonsai. And especially for you since you live in an area of the country where just about 95 percent of all temperate zone plants will be particularly happy to find themselves living.

 

[leatherback]

Local & native..

Evergreens:
Yew
Scots Pine

Deciduous
Hornbeam; Carpines Betulus
Larix spp
Field maple

 

[sorce]

Then it's not one whit different from any number of other posts asking what trees to use for bonsai. And especially for you since you live in an area of the country where just about 95 percent of all temperate zone plants will be particularly happy to find themselves living.

Except, it could be all here in one thread.

C'mon pincher!
Lol!

Sorce