The Tree Thread

[Brian Van Fleet]

Trident maple, Yamafusa pot.

 

[PonderingSage:]

Spring collected juniper
(Im mystified as to why pic is loading sideways?) maybe it wants to be a cascade

 

[LeftHandLuke]

Ginkgo today.

I am Groot.

 

[leatherback]

this thread where,if you comment, you have to post a picture of one of your trees.

I am Groot.

You owe the thread a picture of one of your trees!

 

[LeftHandLuke]

You owe the thread a picture of one of your trees!

Uh oh! I missed that part. Now I have to do two, which kind of sucks for me because I've been much more into starter material over the past few years and have very little that's close to being refined. But a deal's a deal! First one is my cork bark elm, second one is a tree I drive by all the time and want to recreate in a forest group. I haven't been able to track down the name of the tree so any help on that is appreciated!

 

[leatherback]

I haven't been able to track down the name of the tree so any help on that is appreciated!

COULD be a blue atlas cedar, but a picture of a part of a branch with needles should be of help!

 

[LeftHandLuke]

blue atlas cedar

I'm thinking it's a pine, maybe ponderosa. Google captured better pics of it than I did...

 

[parhamr]

A partly styled Hinoki Cypress. The tree, in pot, total just under 5 feet tall.

 

[Nybonsai12]

 

[SantaFeBonsai]

 

[parhamr]

Japanese Stewartia in a 17" long Koyo oribe oval. It’s a Fuyo-en commissioned pot.


I’m surprised that a 17" wide pot could feel a touch undersized. I remember when I was newer to bonsai and a 12" pot seemed impossibly large

I don’t love how much of its root mass is above the soil line, but that’s something to fix in three or four years. In this potting I adjusted the planting angle. I shaved off quite a bit of the underside of the root ball to make this happen. Its trunk used to exit the soil vertically.

 

[parhamr]

But I’ve gone a touch further than 17" recently — meet my 20" Vicki Chamberlain oval


I’m regrowing the apex on this Japanese Zelkova, hence the stump cut up top. I’m envisioning the “target” width of the full canopy to be somewhere around 24".

For its last couple of pottings I didn’t give it enough root space, which then lead to weak-ish growths. With this additional root space I ought to be able to perform partial defoliations and/or multiple prunings a year.

 

[PonderingSage:]

Beaver pruned hawthorn.

 

[erich_raudebaugh]



Shimpaku I've had for 30 years, purchased as a seedling from Brussel's.

 

[SantaFeBonsai]

Sharps (another ground layer project )

 

[PeaceLoveBonsai]

Been cold and snowy here in middle Tennessee. Been busy with some other projects (and life things). But it was nice to bring this guy back into the shop and just give her a once over. Very calming after some pretty stressful times in my life.

 

[Housguy]

Nana

 

[LeftHandLuke]

Been cold and snowy here in middle Tennessee. Been busy with some other projects (and life things). But it was nice to bring this guy back into the shop and just give her a once over. Very calming after some pretty stressful times in my life.

That tree is just astounding. Very nice.

 

[PeaceLoveBonsai]

That tree is just astounding. Very nice.View attachment 416774

Thanks! Nice kitty

 

[Shima]

Japanese Stewartia in a 17" long Koyo oribe oval. It’s a Fuyo-en commissioned pot.
View attachment 416378

I’m surprised that a 17" wide pot could feel a touch undersized. I remember when I was newer to bonsai and a 12" pot seemed impossibly large

I don’t love how much of its root mass is above the soil line, but that’s something to fix in three or four years. In this potting I adjusted the planting angle. I shaved off quite a bit of the underside of the root ball to make this happen. Its trunk used to exit the soil vertically.

Good to see one not going straight up.