Ten Year Club

[Anthony]

@Smoke ,

one for Al, from 1991
Seagrape found much as is.
Pot is K's first pinch pot fired in his new kiln.




Still going strong today and good friends with the sushi table

 

[Dav4]

A few more while I have time...
A yew picked up as landscape stock in 2002, first pic from 2007, last pic from 2017. It actually has gone through another transformation since 2017 but that'll have to wait.

 

[Dav4]

And this shimpaku, picked up as a landscape bush in nursery cans at least 18 years ago. Grown in the ground for several years and placed in a pot for the first time in 2008. The first picture is from 2010 and the second is from 2015 and third is from
last week at my place of business... it's on the right. It's currently having a redo consultation... might be busting out the heavy gauge wire!

 

[Shibui]

Finding bonsai that have been in pots for 10 years is not a problem but finding early photos is Taking digital pics as a record of the trees only started around 10 years ago and the archive process did not settle down properly for another few years. I know I had some prints of some early ones somewhere????
Still I have managed to find a couple of early shots of some of the trees. These just make it to 10 years (photos, not the trees).
This one is an Aussie native - Callistemon sieberii - River Bottlebrush. I have dubbed this style 'waterswept'. The concept came from seeing these trees in nature. They grow along rivers and creeks in this area on the lower slopes of the hills and mountains. The rivers flood most years so anything in the river bed and along the banks gets hammered. Some of these trees germinate in cracks in outcropping rocks in the river and all have similar attributes - roots running over the rocks and diving into any available cracks, long branches all pointing downstream, deadwood on upstream side of trunks.

This from 2007


This black pine (recently posted elsewhere) also has a 2007 photo.
Now:

2007:

 

[Tidal Bonsai]

Very inspirational! I have a while before I have trees in my collection for ten years. These pictures all give me great inspiration to stick with it!

 

[Dragon60]

Well it seems odd to be posting with heavyweights, but I have one tree that I've had over a decade in a bonsai pot. In early 2006, not long after my first wife died, I was looking for things to keep me occupied besides drinking whiskey. I had an urge to try bonsai, again. At a target I bought some trees in the nursery (but not bonsai). One was a wisteria. The others all died quickly. The wisteria was about 5 ft tall so I cut it in half. Trimmed roots and put right into a square ceramic 6 inch pot. A couple years later I trimmed again and put into green oval pot. The other trees died from over watering I think but wisterias like water! In summers I put the pot into a pan of water. Every few years I trimmed the roots. Over a decade later, just last August, I wired it into the pot and put wire on a few branches?? for the first time. It's probably been 12 years since it bloomed, so current goal is to achieve that. Wish I had pictures of the early years but wasn't a picture taker then. These pics are from last august when I wired it. It just went into dormancy beginning of Feb. here in Fl.

 

[Cable]

Such nice trees and progressions! I’m just going into my second season but maybe someday I’ll have something to show. ?

 

[Shibui]

A couple of maples that I believe should qualify for the 10 year club:
Trident group assembled at a workshop with Tom Yamamoto sometime in the late 80s?
This photo from 2007



Today:


Informal upright trident maple about 12" tall - from seed
2007


Today

 

[Forrestford]

@Smoke ,

one for Al, from 1991
Seagrape found much as is.
Pot is K's first pinch pot fired in his new kiln.

Still going strong today and good friends with the sushi table

I took a trip to flordia last year and took a cutting of a seagrape but sadly died a few months later. Yours is the first one ive seen made into a bonsai. Looks great! cant believe you got the leaves that small!

 

[PaulH]

California juniper


When I acquired it in 2003

 

[PaulH]

Deodar cedar




First chop and pot in 2009.

 

[PaulH]

Cork oak I grew from an acorn started in early '80s





First pot after digging from growing bed in about 2006

 

[PaulH]

Sierra juniper I collected in 2008


First pot in 2009

 

[Ali Raza]

Deodar cedar

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First chop and pot in 2009.

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Wow amazing cedar bonsai.