FINAL SUBMISSIONS - 2020 5 yr Native Tree, Native Pot Challenge

cishepard

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Time is up for this challenge:

https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/the-five-year-native-tree-native-pot-challenge.46006/

Please submit your final photos in this thread for judging. According to the original rules you can submit one tree to be considered for the contest. If you have some others to show for “Honourable Mentions”, please post those in your individual contest threads. Add a link to your contest thread, along with your tree photo, so people can see your tree’s progression.

Also, along with you photo submission, please include a brief description of the pot, indicating it’s country of origin, maker, maybe photos of the bottom showing a mark, chop or signature.

To simplify matters, I think the judging should be based on the number of likes for each entry - open to the general public. Base your choices on the entry that appeals to you most as a bonsai and pot combination - it is a very broad category of trees, with many different starting ages, shapes and sizes. Find the trees that you feel have come the farthest in bonsai development, or that have great future potential and give them the “thumbs up”.

I will extend the deadline for final submissions until Jan. 4th (2 weeks) and the count up of “likes” will end two weeks after that on Jan. 18th.
 
My prunnus spinoza (https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/5yr-native-tree-challenge-leatherbacks-prunus-spinoza.46817/). I will also update my original thread, as well as my other tree, a beech (https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/5yr-native-tree-challenge-leatherbacks-fagus-sylvatica.50083/)
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The pot is a cement pot I made several years ago, and left in the back of the garden to age. That has now happened, giving a nice smooth landscape feel, at least, to me.

And the original tree I started with in 2020:
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It figures I'm following Jelle. Anyway, here is my Carpinus caroliniana. My current plan is to extend and thicken that bottom-most branch to bring the movement of the tree more to the right. I also want to improve the ramification, but that will come with time.

This photo is from November, 2025.

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This photo is from September.

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This photo is from March, 2021, immediately before I collected the tree.

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This photo is the bottom of the pot.

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