The Shohin Tree Thread

[Hartinez]

Do you happen to have any pics of the dogwood defoliated? That this is amazing.

Any tips for keeping these things alive? I have a couple I collected a year ago. I planted em in the ground. To my surprise they would get droopy if not watered regularly early this summer. I started watering them more and they put out a lot of new growth. Like 10 inch straight shoots. I trimmed back part of the growth mid summer on one of them and it think it might have killed it.

Per the “rules” of the thread, your supposed to post a pic of one of your shohin with ever comment.

Also. Here’s some info on sagebrush. Can’t remember if any of it is useful.

Collected Sagebrush (Artemisia Tridentata)

Several threads on these, but I thought I’d start one with my experiences so far. In Taos, NM where my wife is from, there are acres and acres and acres....and acres of Sagebrush. I had been planning to dig some for years but only got to it this spring in late March. I collected 3 small just...

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[lunchbox27]

Well here is my pic. I as told Japanese hornbeam but not 100% sure in haruyoshi cream crackle pot

 

[lunchbox27]

Kingsville boxwood in yamafusa pot

 

[GSCarlson]

So many beautiful shohin in this thread! Is there a category for ugly/grotesque? If so.. my tiger bark ficus in a generic Chinese pot:

 

[RoadManDenDron]

Ligustrum (training pot)

 

[PeaceLoveBonsai]

I did a little work on this double trunk Shimpaku today.

 

[Milly]

Ficus Craterostoma, common name Forest fig.
While all my others figs loose all or most of their leaves during our winter this one never does.

 

[RoadManDenDron]

JBP- not that you can tell from this pic but its a Cork bark variety, I worked on it today to clear out the canopy and reveal the cork but no pics yet and will probably wait til the wires are off

 

[SeanS]

A memory from 2 years ago popped up on my Facebook over the weekend.

7 October 2021



Now

 

[Dan W.]

Love that two year progression on the crabapple!

Here's an update from this morning in Wyoming.
Acer Palmatum

 

[MHBonsai]

 

[SeanS]

Miniature rose started this spring from nursery stock

 

[bdmatt]

kishu juniper

 

[RoadManDenDron]

Cotoneaster in John Pitt pot

 

[badatusernames]

This was a plant I got during my Year One obsession with the hobby

It’s a cotoneaster and this one should have black fruit

Three years in from $30 nursery material

 

[badatusernames]

Chinese quince

 

[TomB]

Acer palmatum

 

[KikurageOtomo]

Little 'Mystic Mikawa' project I started this year. I actually didn't obtain this cultivar intentionally, the vendor was supposed to be sending me a ginkgo but either they whiffed or were out of stock so I recieved this instead . It just kind of sat in the nursery pot for a year until I decided it would be a good partner for this really cute vessel made by an unknown potter.

Still not too much to look at and I'd like to get it more flush with the lip of the pot in a year or so, but I really enjoy the leisurely energy the tree projects in tandem with the pot. The pot gives me a relaxing illusion of the bank of a stream or pond with many fish swimming about, the maple providing them shade.

 

[n8]

Unknown plant clump.

 

[n8]

Chaenomeles 'Toyo Nishiki'

(@Mike Corazzi - This is one of the Japanese quince that I recently repotted.)