Uour "First Tree in 2017" thread

[JudyB]

I want that elm @Wilson!!! Where did you find that?

 

[Wilson]

Thanks @JudyB ! I was visiting a gentleman who has a great collection of trees, and he had this kinda sittin of to the side. Needless to say I was all over it, and he really charged me next to nothing for it. I left there feeling pretty lucky!

 

[M. Frary]

I want that elm @Wilson!!! Where did you find that?

Me too!

 

[Wilson]

Me too!

I was wanting a nice elm since seeing some of the beauties you had up in the Ulmus selfie thread! I am trying to set money aside for a larger elm come spring!

 

[defra]

at noelanders this weekend i bought two trees

Chaenomeles japonica


amur maple


And i met leatherback there And hè was kind and gave me this
amelancier lachmarkii with horrible roots lol still i like it!

 

[Haoleboy]

Purchased at a local landscape nursery at the beginning of the year. I used the ancient technique of zip ties and #8 copper wire, and put some bends on it today.

 

[Potawatomi13]

Mine....jbp
Well first shaping anyway
Actually bought a satsuki today.....
bonsai shop grandma convinced me.....cultivar is imported from Japan....
小金釆 not sure what it is in English.

Looks like Rankor with foliage.

 

[Potawatomi13]

I dug it up. This is actually a little seedling that I've kept since I joined, but never really gave it all that much attention except keeping it alive and some wiring just one year. I guess it's finally in a form closer to being a "tree". I'll have to dig to see if I could find the image of when I first had it.

Update: Found it. From June 2014.
View attachment 130537

Nice wire scars/Great movement. Mulberry?

 

[petegreg]

I'll see how many trees survive this harsh winter hoping I'll not have too much empty space... Planning to collect a hawtorn, English oak and some field maple. So only collecting, this is the field I want to improve myself in.

 

[BunjaeKorea]

Looks like Rankor with foliage.

On my planet we prefer the term Florakor....which is more politically correct

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Nice wire scars/Great movement. Mulberry?

Thanks. It's a Hackberry.

 

[abqjoe]

Inbound from the Don

 

[defra]

nice fat tapered trunk only bottom branches look to be at the same height tough but nice anyway

 

[sorce]

Inbound from the Don

View attachment 131368

Lol!

Your receipt from the last one....

Like the feather in Forrest Gump....

Still has not hit the ground......

Yet....

Here we are !

Nice!

I think you are already selecting much better material!

Sorce

 

[sorce]

I think you are already selecting much better material!

Progressively.

Sorce

 

[abqjoe]

Progressively.

Sorce

You know you're almost God status when you get to quote yourself lol

 

[Velodog2]

I won the eBay auction for this ilex vomitoria a couple days ago and it just shipped, so it looks like it will be my first new tree for the year. Can't really know what the apex or nebari look like from the pics but it was cheap enough for the size of the trunk. Hopefully will be able to find a leader and choose branches, or if not everything will get cut off and I'll try for a better selection. I have another smaller one of these from the same source from last year that I cut back to a stump and it threw branches out all over. From the offering pics it looks like I may want some further down.

 

[abqjoe]

It's here

 

[GailC]

Just grabbed this from ebay. My first real bonsai and my first trident.

 

[Giga]

Little shohin crabapple