Recent content by Nellb

I do like that idea. I've been browsing some stuff online but am apprehensive about shipping plants. Has anyone offered from Dallasbonsai.com or wigretsbonsai.com? I saw some interesting plants on those sites for reasonable prices

Honestly we both agreed upon a "mall-sai" look, not something I can show off in the national show lol. There will be about 15 tables so I planned on growing 20. Maybe at worst 5 will be walked off with, not all them. I plan to keep a few myself and give the rest back to the other person...

Hello everyone, So I've been growing bonsai got 2 years and browsing around this forum for a while posting a few times, but I had an interesting situation arise that maybe you guys could help with. Next August I'm getting married and my fiance has taken full control of the wedding, but the...

Is that the box holly? I probably will get a box from home depot to work on this year

Well I said that because I was hoping to exclude any "indoor bonsai" thread starters, and I have no more room for tropical lol. I've tired conifers (pine, juniper, hinoke, and larch), a amur maple sapling, azalea, ummm and a few more. I lost most them due to going on vacation in August last...

Hello everyone, So I started bonsai last year on my second story apartment porch that doesn't get much more then partial sun light. Being new to the whole plant thing in general, I just bought whatever I felt like with very little success. So I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for low...

Thanks for the info Leo, I'll keep that in mind. I love the look of the tamarind so I'm excited to see how these trees grow out and what they can become!

So simple, who would have thought! Thanks guys! This is what it looked like when I got it Along with another tamarind sapling that I call my tropical Charlie Brown Christmas tree This is how I got it, but it's doing much better since then lol Just felt like sharing my pity projects...

Hello everybody, So I have a quick question about trunks of a sapling. In January I got a tiny tamarind sapling that was struggling to survive, so being in Connecticut I brought it inside stuck it under a grow light and let it do it's thing, hoping it would bounce back. Well it rehabbed nicely...

Thanks Jeanluc, I already have. It's safe to say that me stumbling accidentally across sanctuary bonsai in the dead of winter this year is what got me into bonsai to begin with. With 3' of snow on the ground tho it was tough to appreciate what Todd has set up. He was very helpful for having a...

The Larch

So I figured I would post a quick update on these little twigs, it has been about a month now, and these two guys have exploded with growth. For being nothing more then glorified twigs when I received them, to growing noticably almost daily, it has been an interesting thing to watch. I go to...

So recently I decided to create a small DIY ebb and flow hydroponics system to see if it will give me greater growth for some trees, then what I would normally get on my south facing 2nd story porch. The setup up I created can hold about 8 medium sized pots, pumps the water through the drain...

When I pulled it out of the pot, the hidden stump took up about 50% of the root ball, by the time I realized I had knocked off more roots then I was planning too. I wasn't using anything other then my fingers and some water to gently remove the dirty, but those roots are very fine.

Yesterday I was picking up some materials at a local bonsai store, and I came upon a Satsuki Azalea in the green house, hidden behind a few other plants. The tree perked my interest a bit, and the price was pretty good, so I decided to buy it. It was in a plastic pot about 5-6" wide, and I...