Merry Christmas! Show us your Bonsai gifts

[Dav4]

Time to open up a Christmas box from Japan!

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Looks Italian to me...

 

[Carol 83]

Big bonanza. I got the shears I asked my brother for, plus a gift card for Superfly Bonsai. My sister got me a bonsai tool kit with lots of fun stuff. I got shiny stuff from my husband, but I like shiny stuff too..

 

[stu929]

My wife got me a tool set, a pot, and a book. As well as a gift card to Meehans. Happy camper.

 

[Wulfskaar]

I got a took set and some dawn redwood seeds!

 

[leatherback]

this is what I got.

 

[chicago1980]

Boxes had pots from Japan. Here are photos of the pots

 

[chicago1980]

Looks Italian to me...

It's a major award!

 

[AZbonsai]

Me enjoying the new chairs and table my girls gifted me with. Coffee tastes great and 45f with a jacket is fantastic.

 

[Colorado]

My wife and in-laws were very generous, as always. I am not sure what I did to deserve them. Even a blind dog finds a bone sometimes, I suppose?

Wire, shohin turntable, some hand carving tools, soil screens, work gloves (new benches this year!) and a gift card to Superfly which is going to turn into a new pair of root cutters!

 

[Carol 83]

I just ordered a Camellia with my gift card. Should be here New Years' Eve.

 

[sorce]

Boxes had pots from Japan.

I don't think anyone thought it was really big scissors! Lol!

Do you know how old they are?

Can't wait for those updates!

Sorce

 

[chicago1980]

I don't think anyone thought it was really big scissors! Lol!

Do you know how old they are?

Can't wait for those updates!

Sorce

Morning Sorce,

I can share an estimated time range of the pots
The first 4 are Nakawatari pots - Chinese antique pots all at at least 110+ years in age


Gyozan Gyouzan Nakano Yukizyou Japanese Tokoname Unglazed Rectangle Bonsai Pot


Production pot of some sort.

 

[BonjourBonsai]

My awesome wife's gift was encouraging me to scour the 1/2 off section at HD. I found 6 SINGLE TRUNK mugos and a bird's nest spruce.

 

[CWTurner]

My wife surprised me with a bunch of seedlings. Tough time of year to plant them.

Ground is just freezing up now. Any suggestions other than making them indoor plants until Spring?
CW

 

[Clicio]

My wife surprised me with a bunch of seedlings. Tough time of year to plant them.
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Ground is just freezing up now. Any suggestions other than making them indoor plants until Spring?
CW

Store them in the fridge till the Spring.

 

[jquast]

For Christmas, I bought myself two signed Yammaki pots and a Ryugaku pot for some of my oaks that are finally ready to move out of training pots and into something more formal.

 

[keri-wms]

Heaps of information for me!

 

[Eckhoffw]

The misses gifted me these two pots off Etsy.
Definitely no @sorce pots, but I’m stoked to have more pots nonetheless.
INFO

 

[Dragon60]

I got this little pot and 7 more similar to it ( some even smaller ) so I can do Shito size trees. I just put this 2 1/2 year old Erc juniper cutting in it today.

 

[MrWunderful]

Easier for my wife if I buy my own bonsai gifts.

literati jbp is a seed from a cork bark, so we will see what happens.

Red pine is quite the project but for 45$ I couldnt refuse.