deadwood care

Hello friends, This is my first post, so I hope I’m in the right place and the right section. I’ve brought two large pieces of wood that I’m quite fond of. One of them (the lighter-colored one) might be from a conifer. The second piece looks like it came from a deciduous branch, which tends...

This tree is 18 years old and was potted in March 2024 in terracotta, with a good amount of garden soil mixed with bonsai soil. It was repotted again to remove the garden soil this spring into pumice, lava rock, and turface (1-1-1) in a 12” Japanese Tokoname training pot. The tree has lots of...

My cottonwood appears to be fed by just part of the trunk, which looks mostly dead at this point. Admittedly, I had only been looking at the opposite side of the trunk for a long time and missed this development, another learning experience.... but now I think it might need some special care to...

Hi everyone, I recently acquired one of my first pieces of collected material — a Mendocino Pygmy cypress— and I have a question about working with the naturally occurring jin when they still have their outer layer of bark on them and have not been bleached by the sun. Am I supposed to remove...

This juniper was purchased at a club aution and has been with me for about 5 years. In that time, I've noticed the shari slowly changing. The cracks are getting deeper and the corner is separating. The wood feels solid, but I want to make sure I'm doing the right thing. I've heard that lime...