florida native

I’m hoping to get some guidance with this Maple. I collected and planted this from seed in 2021 and have allowed it to grow pretty freely. I only clipped a few overlapping branches last year for the first time. I’ve read that larger collected specimen tend to rot or hollow out after a large...

New to the forum, but have been into bonsai for 6 years, especially native species and some tropicals. I wanted to share my experiences with the sand pine, pinus clausa, which seems to have bonsai potential but given it’s limited range, it likely isolated to zones 8-10. Further complicating is...