The Tree Thread

[BobbyLane]

Hi guys,
this Field maple (acer campestre) is just a few days in training. cut down from a larger tree and reduced to a bare trunk,

A future virtual
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and a Tilia cordata/European Linden i did some styling on earlier, just coming into leaf

2017-04-14_06-45-39 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr

My other Field maple

2017-04-09_10-23-25 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr

 

[thumblessprimate1]

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Pygmy?

Toyo nishiki. Considering a larger pot one day to grow strong and thicken.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

@Don Blackmond M R small leaves!
Pruned mine a bit, so they R bigger right now...

 

[Don Blackmond]

@Don Blackmond M R small leaves!
Pruned mine a bit, so they R bigger right now...
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Yes, they are small. Its a Beni Chidori.
Your clump looks good in that pot.

 

[Adair M]

Here's a Shohin Kishu I'm cleaning up for the upcoming National Shohin show:



I sanded the bark smooth. Lime sulfur is next. Then, I need to do a little detail wiring.

 

[abqjoe]

Got a long way to go but what a nice piece of stock to work on BTW, I did end up potting it a little bit deeper in the pot than what some of the pics show.

 

[TomB]

Then, I need to do a little detail wiring.

@Adair M it would be good to see some close-up shots of the wiring, if you have time. How 'detailed' do you go in terms of the fine shoots?

Random tree pic to make the post legit: a recently-acquired Yew, Taxus baccata, that could be nice if I don't kill it.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

My daughter's azalea composition. She made this probably 8 years ago, and worked on it once with Peter Warren in our back yard. She had forgotten about it, until it caught her eye in full bloom yesterday. I've been tempted to make it into 3 separate chunky shohin trees. They have some trunks fattening up for sure. It's in a commissioned Byron Myrick pot that appeared in an interview of him in the Journal of the ABS a few years ago.

 

[drew33998]

Got a long way to go but what a nice piece of stock to work on BTW, I did end up potting it a little bit deeper in the pot than what some of the pics show.

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I think it needs to be buried up to the double trunk in order to grow those roots.

 

[mattspinniken]

A Mugo Pine yardadori and a tiny Larch I plan to use as an accent tree.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Unwired this Shantung maple today. More budding happening inside.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

The beginning of my first forest. One of the trees died.

 

[Nybonsai12]

Last tree I styled. Not a great styling or a great tree but I like some of its characteristics. The bark is good, I like the deadwood. I think when it fills in it should be looking better. This must be my favorite thread in bnut. No BS just trees.

 

[Tieball]

There's a thread on this Hawthorn somewhere, today i slipped it into a new pot from Erin Pottery, wired all the shoots towards the light.
2017-01-08_07-32-34 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr

I like this tree. Really nice work you've done. And, I think, perfect pot for the tree. Excellent pot color and it compliments the patchy bark of the tree very well. Nice choice.

 

[BobbyLane]

I like this tree. Really nice work you've done. And, I think, perfect pot for the tree. Excellent pot color and it compliments the patchy bark of the tree very well. Nice choice.

Thanks buddy, the pot was changed over spring and the tree is at a slant, early stages, but its for the best, ill update the Hawthorn thread later in the season, as you can see it was cut back hard, its been left to grow out now for the season, its become a little bush, has responded well to the cut back
IMG_4040 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
IMG_4033 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr

IMG_4034 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr

lot of hawthorn look this way in the wild, this is another of mine that will be in the naturalistic style

@Tieball you know the rules of the thread, lets see your tree buddy

 

[Nybonsai12]

I like this tree. Really nice work you've done. And, I think, perfect pot for the tree. Excellent pot color and it compliments the patchy bark of the tree very well. Nice choice.

Rules of this thread are if you post you have to include one of your trees. You owe one. Post it up good or bad.

 

[Tieball]

I don't have any trees in a bonsai pot yet. All my trees are still in the ground growing trunks.
Here's one of my American Elms in the ground. Base at soil is 3". Solid nabari all around is buried. Grows on a tile. Root pad depth is about 2". Roots worked on about every third year. This photo is autumn. Recently in pre-spring most branches have been chopped off except for the next top section...removed after the photo...back to basic trunk.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

A little sparse, but about to bloom. My Adenium.

 

[TomB]

Thanks buddy, the pot was changed over spring and the tree is at a slant, early stages, but its for the best, ill update the Hawthorn thread later in the season,

Look forward to seeing how this develops now - it's very different to the material you started with! The new design does resolve the 'high rootball' issue that always caught my attention with this one. Is that the pot you got from Pinecone Ceramics?

@Tieball that's more like it Hefty looking trunk on that elm, and nice bark.

Picture: work-in-progress shohin Juniper chinensis.

 

[Bolero]

My daughter's azalea composition. She made this probably 8 years ago, and worked on it once with Peter Warren in our back yard. She had forgotten about it, until it caught her eye in full bloom yesterday. I've been tempted to make it into 3 separate chunky shohin trees. They have some trunks fattening up for sure. It's in a commissioned Byron Myrick pot that appeared in an interview of him in the Journal of the ABS a few years ago.
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I agree that this would make 3 Stand Alone Azalea Bonsai, nice trunks and great flowers...