Smoke
Ignore-Amus
BINGO! all mine!
Ugly trees.
- Thread starter M. Frary
- Start date
namnhi
Masterpiece
WOW! Speechless
QUOTE="Smoke, post: 457305, member: 66"]BINGO! all mine!View attachment 146302
View attachment 146305
View attachment 146306
View attachment 146307ATTACH=full]146308[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
I totally forgot about the one with the contraption on it.
my nellie
Masterpiece
At first I really stared at your background. It's captured my heart at first glance!
Secondly I looked at the Linden and I will agree with Max/barrosinc, it is not that ugly
my nellie
Masterpiece
Bonsai aboard!!! 
herzausstahl
Chumono
Was the trebuchet early Smoke work? I feel like it has a story behind it!
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
wireme
Masterpiece
I've got plenty of ugly too. Most of them seem to have possibilities to become less ugly or cool ugly or somehow salvageable. Except this one, this is the worst of them all...looks like a bad graft it's actually just a past infection/disease scar of some kind. 
just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
I think my ficus may actually be the ugliest ficus on planet earth....and any other planets for that matter.
CasAH
Chumono
pir some pants on that second pic please. This is a family friendly site.
Cotoneaster. No words needed.
And this boxwood I keep trying to kill. Just can't find the tree in those pinwheel branches. Has been chopped and repotted in a tiny pot, No new pics as I don't want to break the camera.
And this boxwood I keep trying to kill. Just can't find the tree in those pinwheel branches. Has been chopped and repotted in a tiny pot, No new pics as I don't want to break the camera.
Last edited:
RKatzin
Omono
Once again proving beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I still get the willies when I look directly at it LOLAt first I really stared at your background. It's captured my heart at first glance!
Secondly I looked at the Linden and I will agree with Max/barrosinc, it is not that ugly
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
You can't stop ugly.
Or even slow it down for that matter.
Not even 2 weeks since cutting it back!
Elms do love their miracle grow.
And one more for your viewing pleasure!
Or even slow it down for that matter.
Not even 2 weeks since cutting it back!
Elms do love their miracle grow.
And one more for your viewing pleasure!
herzausstahl
Chumono
I like the look of the napa, bark, lava mix!
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
There's other stuff in there too.
I like to recycle the soil I have.
There is some turkey grit in there too.
I don't use it anymore but if it's in the old soil I use it. I believe it just adds weight and doesn't contribute anything.
There is also perlite in the top picture.
Miracle grow perlite . So they get access to fertiliser all of the time. Something I'm trying out this year. From the way the tree looks it seems to be working well.
The trees are all in much better health since I don't use pure D.E. anymore.
MrFancyPlants
Masterpiece
I was about to write a cautionary post of the travails of the volunteer elms and the tourniquet method, but this seems like thread to participate. I might try a airlayer just below the first branch on the one to the left. What do I have to lose other than a volunteer elm and a very small part of 10 years.
Velodog2
Chumono
I think I may have found a serious contenda. This spirea use daily to be fairly attractive as a sort of sumo. But last fall in a depressed mood I started picking mindlessly at all the dead wood at the base and before I knew what I was doing, as they say in France - voila, Ugly.
quietobserver
Omono
The symmetry of #2 is astounding! Talk about even nebari and root base, it's almost an optical illusion..
grouper52
Masterpiece
I have a bonsai folder labelled, "Projects." Um hum ... Inetrestingly enough, a lot of the more butt-ugly trees turned into great ones after I worked them a few years ... but these did not! Enjoy!
