Newbies - want to share your trees?

[Scrogdor]

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150 different ones, and counting. Picture from a couple weeks ago.

This is what my Girlfriend is terrified will happen to me. I have 8 trees. I'd have so many more if I could.

 

[Scrogdor]

Here’s my squad, all of them pre-bonsai. 1) trident maple,
2) Yamadori Coast Live oak,
3) Premna
4) Chinese Elm
5) Tiger Bark
6) Bucida

 

[brockw82]

All but two are from garden stock - purchased the crepe myrtle. Weigela was dug up from my back yard and cut/wired. All the rest I cut and wired - started about 3 months ago.

 

[berzerkules]

Great find. I love birches. I've always wanted to get a Weeping Birch bonsai. I never find any seedlings near any, though plenty of seeds. I've done some air-layering, so maybe...

I've seen a lot of comments all over the place saying birch isn't ideal for bonsai but, it's one of my favorite trees and one of the few native varieties where I live so here I am.

I had tons of birch seedlings popping up in my pots but I collect spaghnum moss from the woods and have birch trees above my little trees, Guess it makes sense. They also seem to airlayer well, everyone i tried struck roots this year.

 

[Clorgan]

All but two are from garden stock - purchased the crepe myrtle. Weigela was dug up from my back yard and cut/wired. All the rest I cut and wired - started about 3 months ago.
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That weigela looks interesting! Look forward to seeing how it goes

I love weigela - I have two. One was ripped from the grow bed by my dog, very little roots intact and had been out of the ground most the day. Put it back in expecting the worst but it bounced back with ease. Seem to be super tough

 

[brockw82]

That weigela looks interesting! Look forward to seeing how it goes

I love weigela - I have two. One was ripped from the grow bed by my dog, very little roots intact and had been out of the ground most the day. Put it back in expecting the worst but it bounced back with ease. Seem to be super tough

Can I see yours? This one lost all of its leaves when I dug it up but had a new flush within a month.

 

[Fidur]

Is this compound leaves? Did you trim the leaves?

Yes compound leaves. I only trim branches....though sometimes I defoliate to make better buds

 

[yodamon]

I've seen a lot of comments all over the place saying birch isn't ideal for bonsai but, it's one of my favorite trees and one of the few native varieties where I live so here I am.

I had tons of birch seedlings popping up in my pots but I collect spaghnum moss from the woods and have birch trees above my little trees, Guess it makes sense. They also seem to airlayer well, everyone i tried struck roots this year.

I live in Northern Nevada in the high desert and there are birch trees but no seedlings. I have to irrigate or hand water everything so nothing is wet by nature. I do have spaghnum (from the home depot as only sagebrush is abundant) set aside for my airlayering. I'll cut some see if I get roots before fall sets in.

 

[Fidur]

Operculicarya decaryi:



Juniperus horizontalis:

 

[Ugo]

Hi!

Here's my little collection.
No perfect trees here but Im learning each time I work on them.
I started getting more serious last year.

Please dont judge the wiring of the spruce!!
I tried a "technique" name as long as it does the job!
I got more skills after that after praticing how to wire proprely but so far no marks on the bark and the wires are holding the branches as I want them for now!

Ficus I got when I was 15yrs old. The one that started it all.
This tree survived everything.
He has all my respect and Im now starting to give some love in return.
It has a total of 6 trunks but the tree will probably be trimmed down a little to keep proportions.
I will also do something with the roots in front, especially the "X", the plan is to graft them to make the trunk look bigger


A small Acer, I did no work to it at all as I just found it in a corner of a nursery while on vacation.


A grafted Bloodgood Acer
I still have some feelings for this tree as I found it in bad shape.
Wire marks everywhere, it took me alot of time to remove them as they were almost welded with the bark. I even wonder how theses branches survived as some are almost like a Jin.
Unfortunately we cant really see the nebari, nothing exceptional for sure but its not bad either.
I will shape this tree probably this autum.
The tree was healing from different things but it gave me a good response this year so time has come.


And to finish my Spruce.
This one was also in a bad shape when I got it.
This year this tree was amazing to watch.
The tree had almost no foliage but now new buds are everywhere on tips, old branches, directly on the trunk so it was hard to wire without damaging any buds my goal being to keep as much foliage as possible for now.


Thanks!
Ugo

 

[yodamon]

Operculicarya decaryi:

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Juniperus horizontalis:

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These are awesome

 

[yodamon]

This is what my Girlfriend is terrified will happen to me. I have 8 trees. I'd have so many more if I could.

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150 different ones, and counting. Picture from a couple weeks ago.

WOW, all those trees in that small space. How fun. I would love it but my wife would be looking at me sideways.

 

[yodamon]

I fount this Elm in a ditch by my house two years ago. Rabbits have eaten all the leafs off this tree two times until I was able to get it off the ground. It came back strong both times.

 

[vbakatare]

Hi, New to the site from Los Angeles. Still very much a beginner and still learning. You guys have some great trees! My Collection is as follows: pink japanese wisteria(photo was taken in April), "Tama No Hada" satsuki(photo taken in June), and recently picked up a nana juniper from a nursery and I'm debating in keeping my initial style or to make it into a semicascade. I also have made some juniper cuttings from my grandma's front yard. I'm not sure what cultivar it is. I attached some close ups to it. Does anyone know what it could be?

 

[Perrywinkle]

Hi, hope I’m not too late. I started in 2020 and now have about 7 bonsai and several prebonsai that I’m working on. Oh and a lot of cuttings and saplings.

1. Water Jasmine
2 Bougainvillea
3. Dwarf Pomegranate (don’t mind the gauze it was to keep the wires from scaring)
4. Ficus
5. White Turks cap
6. Calliandra emarginata
7. Tama no Hada azalea, just like @vbakatare above me

In terms of cuttings and seedlings, I have a bunch of Common Persimmon and jade plant cuttings, as well as some beauty berry and Texas persimmon prebonsai I’m messing around with.

 

[Housguy]

Nice nebari on this cork jade, it is heading to a new owner.

 

[qwerty Bonsai]

Just to report back status of my blue holly that I posted in July. The holly was kind of neglected actually, I just let it grow, did not repot. See picture 1, taken several days ago. Picture 2 is after the pruning.

This is a blue princess, had nice red berries last year when getting from nursery. Unfortunately I don't have a blue prince to go with it. So it blooms well, but no berries.

Update: 8, 9 months late, trimmed and repotted (a month ago), this is how it is right now. This is a blue princess, will need to buy a blue prince to have some red berries.

 

[Lumaca]

I was checking scratching the surface of an unidentified spruce I have, one of my very first tree I bought and was very pleased with the radial roots! I snipped the crossing roots but overall (I thought) it looked good. I think I should start pruning the top since the foliage seems to be getting away from the trunk.

The cut I think needs to be done but still working up the courage:

 

[jerzyjerzy]

I was checking scratching the surface of an unidentified spruce I have

Well, it is not spruce, it is Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Boulevard'

 

[Lumaca]

Well, it is not spruce, it is Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Boulevard'

Thank you! I got it as "silver pine" so basically was just guessing what it was lol. Glad to finally id it.