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[pwb]

My wife, Satomi, pruned her trees today. So I rescued the clippings and planted them. Hope they root!



Azalea clipping in a little pot I made a few years ago.^



The azalea it came from.^



Japanese maples and an ume clipping on the right. I made this unusual pot, too. ^

 

[A Bonsai Brit in Spain]

Potted this lovely Thyme in to its New home pot by María José González here in Spain

 

[pwb]

it's beautiful.

 

[Mike Corazzi]

I removed a pound of shoots, limbs, leaves, and buds from a two ounce tree.

This punk was from a neighbor who has them pop up from seeds. Ordinarily, palmatums fry in my heat.
I've been puttering with it for a few years.
Seeing if I can FORCE the lil bastard to put some growth into existing limbs and get....maybe.... more Japanese Maple looking.

Dunno, but nothing to lose.



It LOVES long internodes and flimsy new leaves.

 

[Shogun610]

Repotted this CBS in its first pot , and tended to trees at the studio.

 

[snowman04]

Potted this lovely Thyme in to its New home pot by María José González here in Spain View attachment 478358View attachment 478358

What a gorgeous specimen!

 

[Mike Corazzi]

Also removed most of the wire on the crabapple.

 

[R0b]

Repotted this CBS in its first pot , and tended to trees at the studio.
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There is a reason I mostly use scientific names and I understand that others prefer common names, but once common names get abbreviated I become confused.

Nice trees

 

[Shogun610]

There is a reason I mostly use scientific names and I understand that others prefer common names, but once common names get abbreviated I become confused.

Nice trees

Colorado blue spruce and a Japanese needle juniper

 

[Carol 83]

Removed spent azalea flowers.

 

[rustygarden]

Not technically today but I put this princess persimmon forest together . I had a group of 3 trees that I couldn't make fit the design so my pot is too big . Still wiring etc. to come but I want it to take off .Of course the weather got colder lol .

 

[R0b]

After a hail storm beat up the flowers I did a hard prune on my nursery stock Magnolia stellata. I did not prune for shape but left a minimum of two active buds.

 

[NashsMan]

Yamadori hike at my friends' 100 acre mountainous property near Virginia's Old Rag Mountain. We hiked for about 2 hours scouting the various terrain.
One side (east and south facing) was all mature red and white oaks, hickory, poplar, red maples and lots of standing dead ash trees---victims of the ash borer---but virtually nothing of interest for bonsai.
The other side (west facing with lots of granite outcroppings) was a much better hunting ground. Mostly I got Virginia Black pines, but also 2 mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) and there's one deciduous mystery tree about 12" tall that's just budding out.
I just bought a hori-hori yesterday to use today, and since most of this material was growing in rock crevices it would have been a very different experience without that tool!
I know that neither Virginia pine nor Kalmia are great for bonsai, both are dear to my Blue Ridge soul and that they were all in loose soil tucked into crevices made them attractive prospects for me.

 

[Dav4]

I enjoyed my morning cup of coffee while hacking back these shohin Japanese maples who have no idea it’s going to be in the low 20s tomorrow night…

 

[PowerTap]

Popped this Oregon Myrtal into a more organic soil to encourage more growth this summer. I was pleased at the roots and pleased that it didn't have a tap root that I had remembered from when I acquired it.

Today:


Last year:

 

[yashu]

Errybuddy shufflin’

Snowstorms at night followed by 50° days

 

[August]

It's amateur hour folks, and you know what that means.... Crassula time B)



This fellow is another horrible casualty in my personal war against turface. This time the culprit was Fertilome bonsai mix. A product so bad they discontinued it... but not fast enough to spare me. Mostly calcined clay and then a bit of expanded shale. What can I say, I'm learning. Roots after a whole year:



After repot, repositioning my "guy wire", changing angle + front, and clay pot for weight:

 

[Japonicus]

Thinned a juniper

 

[cockroach]

Chopped back some ficus microcarpa before the rains arrived and they explode. Nothing special but I enjoy them.

This tree is more of a traditional banyan style with aerial roots


A tree that I have left to basically do its own thing over the years with little training. I have enjoyed watching it mature.


One of the first bonsai I bought. It has had some solid training to hide flaws but needs to be repotted this year so I decided to hard prune it back to shape and lower the camopy.


A root over rock a started a few years back. It grew slowly for 2 years then I repotted it and it sprang back. It is developing nicely.

 

[Housguy]

Wired a customer tree halfway, still need to wire the rest next weekend.
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