What’s your latest Bonsai related purchase?

I had to have one!

And I just started letting my 4 and 6 year old try out the NES - they are the best at Kirby. Button coordination is hard for kids that have only ever touched tablets!
Man…. I want one now… “Trogdor was a man…I mean, he was a dragon man…Or, maybe he was just a, dragon…
But he was still Trogdor!”
 
Pots.
I needed one for repotting this Polyscias Fabian, and sometime soon also a Polyscias Fruticosa.
I do think pots are relatively expensive, though. Going to look for them in thrift stores.. 😊
 

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Pots.
I needed one for repotting this Polyscias Fabian, and sometime soon also a Polyscias Fruticosa.
I do think pots are relatively expensive, though. Going to look for them in thrift stores.. 😊
This is really an option. They come up here and there. Not to mention there are many pretty containers easily turned into pots if you drill a hole.
 
This is really an option. They come up here and there. Not to mention there are many pretty containers easily turned into pots if you drill a hole.
I know! I’ve got my eye on a casserole dish from IKEA…
I’ve drilled holes in a lot of my Mom’s old porcelain - coffee and tea pots, bowls, etc., and I’m using them for annuals in the yard. 😊
 
Matt O's entire pot collection on ebay is currently 28% off; 25% (of all orders placed through midnight EST today) is being donated to Nathan Simmons, a co-founder of the bonsai FB auctions who lost his home in the LA fires.

the auctions site has been a great resource for me and many others. I procured a 11" koyo cream oval with a few decades of patina. great pots + you get to help a member of the community in need.

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on the side, a wee little contorted cherry from cedar rose

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Matt O's entire pot collection on ebay is currently 28% off; 25% (of all orders placed through midnight EST today) is being donated to Nathan Simmons, a co-founder of the bonsai FB auctions who lost his home in the LA fires.

the auctions site has been a great resource for me and many others. I procured a 11" koyo cream oval with a few decades of patina. great pots + you get to help a member of the community in need.

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on the side, a wee little contorted cherry from cedar rose

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Managed to find his store on eBay - gorgeous stuff!
But sadly for me, shipping and import taxes to Denmark will cost an arm and a leg.
 
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Matt O's entire pot collection on ebay is currently 28% off; 25% (of all orders placed through midnight EST today) is being donated to Nathan Simmons, a co-founder of the bonsai FB auctions who lost his home in the LA fires.

the auctions site has been a great resource for me and many others. I procured a 11" koyo cream oval with a few decades of patina. great pots + you get to help a member of the community in need.

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on the side, a wee little contorted cherry from cedar rose

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I almost wish you didn't post this... 🤣 $500 later:

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Matt O's entire pot collection on ebay is currently 28% off; 25% (of all orders placed through midnight EST today) is being donated to Nathan Simmons, a co-founder of the bonsai FB auctions who lost his home in the LA fires.

the auctions site has been a great resource for me and many others. I procured a 11" koyo cream oval with a few decades of patina. great pots + you get to help a member of the community in need.

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on the side, a wee little contorted cherry from cedar rose

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How are you ordering from cedar rose? I sent them an instagram message but no word back

Not sure I’m in tree buying mode so don’t want to keep poking him just to be a lookey-lou, but still interested to see what’s available!
 
How are you ordering from cedar rose? I sent them an instagram message but no word back

Not sure I’m in tree buying mode so don’t want to keep poking him just to be a lookey-lou, but still interested to see what’s available!
google cedar rose nursery or cedar rose bonsai- should be the first result. dylan posts new trees on his website every few weeks from fall thru spring, but pretty much everything is sold out within a day or two. you have to keep on top of refreshing
 
google cedar rose nursery or cedar rose bonsai- should be the first result. dylan posts new trees on his website every few weeks from fall thru spring, but pretty much everything is sold out within a day or two. you have to keep on top of refreshing
Thanks!
 
I almost wish you didn't post this... 🤣 $500 later:

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I’ve literally had both of those pots in my “saved for later”! Was most recently looking at the Shuho for a forest that I’m putting together. I ultimately purchased this guy:
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I’ve literally had both of those pots in my “saved for later”! Was most recently looking at the Shuho for a forest that I’m putting together. I ultimately purchased this guy:
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I really like that one too!

I have plans for both of the ones I got, but I don't think the trees will be ready for another 5 years - couldn't resist the 28% off. I need to take a step back... 😅
 
I need to take a step back... 😅
You and me both, I bought 8 pots from him last month and like 15 others a few months ago... but he has such nice Tokoname for reasonable it is hard to beat, especially for big Japanese pots. He goes to Japan and few times a year and buys vintage pots to import and sell. His packaging is overkill, I love it.
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