Nice trees, do you have a grow light setup? Or just the ol' put in a window facing south technique?Second day of staying at home. Clearly the boredom is showing. While I'm waiting to acquire a nice shohin display stand I thought I'll play around with some tropicals I have chilling inside at this time
Probably switch out the orange tree for a kusamono type thing with some Fern or such..
He has some great trees.
Who was it that said " Humans are always looking for the secret of eternal life, when they can't find a way to pass a rainy Sunday afternoon"?
Thank you! The credit for that elm goes to Rodney King, a truly self taught and brilliant bonsai artist. We did tweak it a bit but mostly it is all thanks to him (I did keep it alive over two seasons). His shimpaku though we did a lot of work on (my son spent a couple of days with the fine wiring). I'll post a pic.
Only got grow lights this season and frankly I'm not sure that the results are any better as opposed to our usual south facing window gig.
Each and every one has a story. The upper left ficus is the top from an absolutely grotesque ginseng ficus that I got from a well meaning friend. I air layered the top and threw the weird root things underneath it away. I'll post images. The three tree texas ebony was five and then two died and last year I forgot to water (went two days over my weekly winter watering) and all three lost all their leaves. Two outside ones came back in a month; the middle one did not sprout for four months (I thought it was dead and was looking for a replacement) and then it came back. It won an award a few years ago but I am not training it at all at this time until it recovers over this season. Here's an image from 2017. Also, this one is all me, rocks, moss, trees and all, not my son or Mr. Hanna or anyone else
Thats why I got banned from the kitchen altogether...Love the stacked cans to hold the table.
I was waiting for someone to come up with some reference to that Rodney King. The bonsai version goes by Rod and is Caucasian...
The willow leaf on the lower left (sorry the ginseng one was also on the left but I had originally written right cause I have a problem with left and right, it's crazy when I'm driving...) was from a tall willow leaf which I air layered and then cut the top off and potted that separately. The stump sprouted out and became what you see there.
New thread please!!
