What’s your latest Bonsai related purchase?
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MalsRFun in TN
Sapling
SFDrake
Mame
SFDrake
Mame
8 bucks on the discount rack, Japanese boxwood mess
Cadillactaste
Neagari Gal
I may have won a Japanese maple on auction. I'm hoping my vision for an angle change and this pot I have. Can be accomplished. That it arrives dormant. *Played around in editing.
gschup
Yamadori
Got some cool rocks for cheap at a local aquarium store. Want to try my first root-over-rock plantings. I have either scots pine or japanese red pine seedlings from last year that I could use. Any input on which to choose?
shohin_branches
Chumono
You're welcome! I have a shed with a heater if you need a place to crash
My Pinus parviflora 'Kobe' and 'Glauca' arrived from conifer kingdom. Graft on the Glauca is unfortunately very high. I might put that one in the ground as a niwaki or try adding a lower graft.
Also some bandages for hard bends.
shohin_branches
Chumono
Bill Valvanis owes me commission but I'll gladly take store credit.
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
CapeCodBonsai
Shohin
And all this time I thought my local UPS driver just hated me (or plants)!
CapeCodBonsai
Shohin
Technically, my latest purchase were some Nishiki Gawa rough bark maple cuttings from
Piedmont Bonsai but, I will have to wait for those to be shipped out.
However, I did come home to a box containing two more Korean Sweetheart seedlings (Euscaphis japonica) to give me a total of five of these hard to find trees. (At least they are hard to find in my neck of the woods.)
Piedmont Bonsai but, I will have to wait for those to be shipped out.
However, I did come home to a box containing two more Korean Sweetheart seedlings (Euscaphis japonica) to give me a total of five of these hard to find trees. (At least they are hard to find in my neck of the woods.)
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I think they hate their job.
We get UPS deliveries at work and know our driver well, it's a bit alarming to watch him punch ans kick his way through the truck to find our package...
SFDrake
Mame
Overworked and underpaid I'm sure....I remember when being a UPS driver was a good gig lol
Joe Dupre'
Omono
Overworked? Probably. Underpaid? After a few years, I've heard pay is about $40 /hour........... with plenty of overtime.
Gabler
Masterpiece
$40/hour isn't what it used to be.
Joe Dupre'
Omono
It is if you live in a place with a reasonable standard of living. I retired 8 years ago after making half of that for the last half of my career. I would imagine $40/hr. wouldn't get you much in New York city or L.A.
RJG2
Omono
@yashu's fault (via @RobGA)! Red chojubai:
@shohin_branches' fault! White chojubai:
Will probably put both in the ground.
@shohin_branches' fault! White chojubai:
Will probably put both in the ground.
Good strategy, blaming every thing you buy on someone else. It's almost spring, I'm going to try that.
RJG2
Omono
At least those were relatively cheap. Hopefully @yashu doesn't make me buy anything too expensive when we pick up our club soil orders at New England Bonsai Gardens this weekend!Good strategy, blaming every thing you buy on someone else. It's almost spring, I'm going to try that.
I've never been there before, so it could be trouble (but I'm also a bit adverse to spending a lot on material, I'd rather collect or grow - so maybe not).
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