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i have this japanese black pine. From seed, about 8 years old. the cultivation did not go well: I have some branches at the bottom, otherwise I have only grown a sacrificial branch. The base is great. My plan is to put a graft on the trunk, just above the low bend in the trunk, where some bark...

The new leaves of this young Hawthorn are suddenly turning black. Can this be because of a couple of frosts in the night or is it something else. It's just this one. Don't see this on my other Hawthorns.

I'll post first pics soon.

In 2013 I started several JBP from seed. Now, 7 years later they begin to look like trees. I've got one that I want to make a small shohin (about 6 inch high). Just above the roots it's little over 2 inches wide. The elongation must come from the highest low shoot. It had 4 buds, of wich de...

I'm growing a Scots pine in my garden. Three or four years ago I cut the first sacrefice branche. Now the second sacrefice Branche is due to be cut. I'm afraid now, that I already left it growing to long and I'm losing taper. Can I cut the top of the sacrifice branche no to stop it getting...

I've a garden with a fungus in the soil, Verticillium Dahlia, that is, I think. It was diagnosed by other, but never I a laboratory. Perhaps it cam with the strawberries or the potatoes. Anyway, the maples I had in the ground, in my garden grew well all summer but in autumn shoots and branches...

Short, perhaps somewhat silly question: Can I still repot this smal Acer B, or am I too late and should I wait till next spring?

Sometimes things don't go the way they should. For my Pinus Cembra I was looking for a new pot for a long time. The pot that had caught my eye was a pot from the Austrian potter Horst Heinzlreiter. I have had some pots from Horst and I found the round pot with number 1480 particularly suitable...

I sas these during my summervacation this summer. I think they are Schefflera. And they ramify as if they have nothing else to do. I have at Home, indoors, that only grows strait up. How do they get them to ramify?

A couple of years ago I got this urban Yamadori Yew from a friend. The start looked very promising, or... This is the tree last April.

In 2012 I collected an old Birch that was growing on a roof that was being renovated. It grew with its roots between insulation and bitumen roofing membrane. I collected it with about 4 m2 of fibrous roots. BTW, it was middle of July and hot. I got it home and potted it in a big plastic pot...

My Pinus Cembra is shedding bark. It started end of last summer. We had an exceptional long and hot summer. Might have something to do with it. Two other possible causes I can come to think of are Watering; during our hot summer I had to water a couple of times a day. Hereby I also sprayed the...

A couple of weeks I dug this Euonymus from my garden. It seems to be doing well, it's budding normally. After being able to study it for a while I see to where I want to cut it back. In the fork in there is a dead stump that I want to get rid of. If it were a Pine I wouldn't consider any...

This pine had one or two tickets for the Mugo-train all ready, but I decided it deserved it's own thread. I dug it from the garden of my mother in law in April 2013. I planted it in a hastily timbered box. Did not look much like bonsai then It took 3 or 4 years, before I could cut of the long...

Today I dug a small Scots pine from my garden. It has been growing there for about three years. It had one big root, six inches long, at a right angle from the trunk. It did make roots closer to the trunk in the past years. It developed great bark in a few years. Potted it up in its first...

It was time dig one of the last Hawthorn's from my garden and put it in a container. This one was mentioned to be a shohin. I was convinced that I dug every Hawthorn every couple of years, obviously this one was never dug! Roots are a big challenge : one big root were there supposed to be...

I'like to show my small Cotoneaster Dammeri. As purchased in the summer of 2014 summer of 2015, after some cutback Development went fast, completely overgrown last august. after cut back in august And how it is today, next spring repotting and maybe in the club show in april 2019

Can anyone tell me more about the timing of the second cutting of JBP seedlings? The Bonsai Today article in 'Pine' only mentioned the second cutting, but gifs no timing for it. So: When do we do a secoond cutting of JBP seedlinngs?

Just finished reducing the new needles on this tree. And planning future work. The tree was potted up 5 years ago, from ground growing in a mixture of organic potting soil with Lava. After first work in 2015, the container was cut down beliw soil level, so the tree was potted on in a slightly...

I'll order seeds from semencesdupuy again. I'm in!

In 2013 during a bonsai happening in Delft, Netherlands, this Cembra Pine was styled by Carlos van der Vaart. It was the price in a lottery afterwards and I was the lucky one to win this pine by buying a lottery ticket of 50 cents.

this is a black pine that was in an earlier stage commented on by Adair M. on another forum. Adair commented in his kind way on reverse taper, bar branches, spoke branches. Probably he also commented on my wiring. After a good while I came to the conclusion that most, if not all, of his remarks...