What’s your latest Bonsai related purchase?

[KateM]

I bought a ginkgo

 

[KateM]

I bought a ginkgoView attachment 611402View attachment 611403

 

[Charlo]

 

[rockm]

I blame bonsai as an entry drug for Japanese art in general. Got into woodblock prints a while back. Once in a while the two cross paths. Been looking for the cicada print for some time. Stumbled on The old bonsai print.

 

[rockm]

Can anyone read the kanji on the bonsai print?

 

[Ozz80]

The sumo style olive tree that I mentioned in the thread below

Thread 'What is too much to pay for a tree?'

Aug 18, 2025

I've been to several local nurseries this summer, seen a lot of beautiful plants and trees. It's been a nice change from my normal habits.

Most of the trees with decent trunk are at least $150, the ones I like are about $200.

I want to buy something worth working on, but is $200 more than I could or should be spending? They have cheap Box Woods and stuff like that, but real trees are pretty expensive.

Seems like I could do better but maybe I'm expecting too much. What does the community think?

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I also got a more slender one with a deadwood in the apex. I have three olives at the moment as a result.

 

[blackadam]

I blame bonsai as an entry drug for Japanese art in general.

you've got a point there..
cant read japanese but found book contains ur picture (lol @ google, 1st result correct) - i guess u already checked this
https://www.roningallery.com/Shoshoku-Gatsu-Volume-I-Pictures-of-Various-Occupations picture 7
btw that cicada is common theme in japanese old prints or something rather rare? found similiar but not exactly same

 

[Lara_Ericacious]

Some study material for the coming winter.

 

[rockm]

you've got a point there..
cant read japanese but found book contains ur picture (lol @ google, 1st result correct) - i guess u already checked this
https://www.roningallery.com/Shoshoku-Gatsu-Volume-I-Pictures-of-Various-Occupations picture 7
btw that cicada is common theme in japanese old prints or something rather rare? found similiar but not exactly same
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The cicada and the willow are icons of summer in Japanese culture. The image in paintings and prints is used not really to picture the insect, but to represent the sound it makes in the summertime, from what I understand. It is also associated with illustrating the fleeting nature of life and change (since it emerges, sheds it's skin, sings then dies in single summer)

 

[rockm]

you've got a point there..
cant read japanese but found book contains ur picture (lol @ google, 1st result correct) - i guess u already checked this
https://www.roningallery.com/Shoshoku-Gatsu-Volume-I-Pictures-of-Various-Occupations picture 7
btw that cicada is common theme in japanese old prints or something rather rare? found similiar but not exactly same
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And thanks for the link. Good to know where the bonsai print came from. Hiroshige print.

 

[yesimnathan]

Snagged this on ebay for < $5 shipped!

 

[zens]

A big old olive clump from an upside down root ball. Its in a big plastic bread tray for scale (so not quite 1m square)

Its not in great health (got too wet) so will see if i can recover it. The middle has rotted out so i suspect at repotting i will have at least two if not more pieces instead of one.

 

[SailDesign]

Snagged this on ebay for < $5 shipped!

I got one of those from AbeBooks the other day, for about the same price.

 

[biggestlou]

Might as well learn about the most efficient way to kill the trees I’m buying

 

[Charlo]

New watering can. I love the way the water goes where I want it to go as opposed to a rosette that sprays all over.

 

[SailDesign]

3" round pot from Brightside. Thanks to whoever posted about his pots - really like them.

 

[KateM]

Maybe...

 

[SailDesign]

Maybe...
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If nothing else, it looks like hours of entertainment at some point.

Enjoy!

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

I bought six raffle tickets for five dollars at the Ann Arbor bonsai show last weekend. I ended up winning this Walnut slab. So, in a decade when I have a tree ready for it, I can use it.

I wonder how much this slab actually costs.

 

[NashsMan]

I saw this tee shirt on Instagram Instagram and obviously...