Bonsai toto
Mame
update from first post #98
your first forrest
- Thread starter defra
- Start date
PeaceLoveBonsai
Chumono
PeaceLoveBonsai
Chumono
I had several about 45 years ago. Let me think... I had a JBP forest, Japanese Maple, trident maple, and a Japanese Beech forest. I don’t think I had a hornbeam forest, but I might have. Back in those days, I was WAY more diversified than I am today. When I got divorced, my ex kept my trees. Six months later she called and told me to “Come get your pots”.
I took time off from bonsai. When I restarted, I only did JBP. No forests.
My other tree that’s a forest is this Colorado Blue Spruce raft I’m working on:
Technically, I’ve owned the spruce a couple months longer than the forest.
I took time off from bonsai. When I restarted, I only did JBP. No forests.
My other tree that’s a forest is this Colorado Blue Spruce raft I’m working on:
Technically, I’ve owned the spruce a couple months longer than the forest.
Attachments
thumblessprimate1
Masterpiece
Been considering dismantling this in spring, cut back more, and going shohin 
.
.
leatherback
The Treedeemer
A few years ago I made a little forest. Handed it over to someone else in 2016 as I was not sure it was going somewhere. I found it hard to get the roots properly cut so the trees could go close to eachother. Never restarted the process. In winter will make a forests on a hillside.
imhar5h
Seedling
Seedling forest of a Kapok type variety. Started it this summer from a seedpod that fell in my backyard. Surprisingly, almost all seeds sprouted at the same time over a 1 week span.
Just letting it grow for the time being. Not sure where to take it from here. Following this thread for some inspiration.
Just letting it grow for the time being. Not sure where to take it from here. Following this thread for some inspiration.
PeaceLoveBonsai
Chumono
PeaceLoveBonsai
Chumono
Unfortunately, I let the wire stay on too long this past spring and created some pretty bad wire marks. Hopefully they’ll disappear sometime before 2030.
. I also think it needs one more tree. I’m starting some Fagus from seed, so I can possibly add another 1-3 trees in the spring of 2022.Original from post #86
And Today.
Moridin
Shohin
Went through all 10 pages and got some great inspiration. Time to plan one out myself 
Shogun610
Masterpiece
Is that all in your front yard?
My back yard, yes. The house in the picture is the back of my neighbor’s house.
Shogun610
Masterpiece
Oh haha jw, the bay window threw me off looked like a front window. Very nice set up. Those bricks seem less hassle than digging in a post and filling with cement.
And you can rearrange them.
PeaceLoveBonsai
Chumono
Unfortunately, I let the wire stay on too long this past spring and created some pretty bad wire marks. Hopefully they’ll disappear sometime before 2030.
Original from post #86
View attachment 342412
And Today.
View attachment 342410
Here’s an update.
Being that this was my first forest, I kept the wire on way too long several years ago. Beech, apparently, doesn’t appreciate that. Consequently, large scars.
A gal in my bonsai club suggested I scrape the scars with a knife or straight edge. I figured what the hell, let’s give it a try. As you can see, I’ve got several with scars, so I decided to try on one and compare down the road.
I applied putty and now we pray to bonsai gods.
Anyone else try this?
Gert
Mame
- Messages
- 196
- Reaction score
- 563
- USDA Zone
- 8b
Here's a forest I started in 2017. I threw five saplings in a pretty small pot and just let them go. I let the trees run pretty tall and reduced them in 2020. After realizing this year that it was still too tall, I cut back again and am re-growing the branches.
In addition to it being a pretty boring forest, the planting is too symmetrical, almost forced. I'd love to hear thoughts on how to rearrange these next year. The root-mass has all fused together but I'm not opposed to slicing, dicing and re-arranging. I've also got about 20 other elm seedlings growing that I could add as smaller trees down the road.
Definitely nothing special, but it was a cheap fun experiment.
Pardon the B&W photos. For a time, before I'd go on my photo walks I'd snap a random pic of one of my trees to ensure the first frame of something I actually wanted to photograph wasn't exposed to light.
-Gert
In addition to it being a pretty boring forest, the planting is too symmetrical, almost forced. I'd love to hear thoughts on how to rearrange these next year. The root-mass has all fused together but I'm not opposed to slicing, dicing and re-arranging. I've also got about 20 other elm seedlings growing that I could add as smaller trees down the road.
Definitely nothing special, but it was a cheap fun experiment.
Pardon the B&W photos. For a time, before I'd go on my photo walks I'd snap a random pic of one of my trees to ensure the first frame of something I actually wanted to photograph wasn't exposed to light.
-Gert
PeaceLoveBonsai
Chumono
The greenest this beech forest has looked after a summer in its entire life. #maybefinallystartingtofiguresomeshitout
Shogun610
Masterpiece
How did cleaning those scars up go ? I have the same thing on a Beech forest I inherited
