Newbies - want to share your trees?

I was gifted this jade 15 years ago- from my sister in-law.
Like many, I just left it inside for that time.
it got leggy of course, and did get pretty butchered 3 yrs back. In accordance with my new love for plants and bonsai. also used most of the cuttings for a jade forest.

Really wish I had a photo of when I got it.
I can’t even remember what it looked like back then.
The last couple of years I’ve given it care, and it is just starting to look pleasing to me.
View attachment 354869View attachment 354874
I've had a jade crassula bonsai tree in the house for ten years and put a piece in our succulent garden earlier this year and the trunk is that big already. I'm getting ready to chop the trunk and then wait a bit and plant it in a bonsai pot. The leaves have stayed small on the bonsai tree and I'm hoping they'll stay small after I chop the new trunk. I planted a small jade forest in a pot too with cuttings and they're coming along. Funny thing is I don't even like like jade bonsai trees. Oh well.
 
Here is a jm in a training box and volunteer bradford pear sapling I am working on. The pear took off in the ground this year after having its taproot removed last year. And the jm survived a very harsh root pruning as well this past spring. C7FF5C9F-A203-4FB9-8C15-41E3BAA78327.jpeg4BBE97B7-8948-4126-97DD-89FCF50E8D9E.jpeg
 
Looking forward to seeing your work! Especially on the local trees in the Canaries 😉

Cheers
DSD sends
 
I just dug these two dwarf jades up from the front yard yesterday. They look kind of interesting. I’m kind of stuck figuring out what to do with them, being a noob.I’ll post them later on in the misc section and see if anyone has any ideas. I here they are pretty resilient, so it’ll give me something to practice on.
 

Attachments

  • 188FA447-E2A9-49E7-A70E-254A1624B530.jpeg
    188FA447-E2A9-49E7-A70E-254A1624B530.jpeg
    193.6 KB · Views: 37
  • 1EC40712-1F90-4D0E-AE73-440E8BF73D90.jpeg
    1EC40712-1F90-4D0E-AE73-440E8BF73D90.jpeg
    278.4 KB · Views: 43
I've had a jade crassula bonsai tree in the house for ten years and put a piece in our succulent garden earlier this year and the trunk is that big already. I'm getting ready to chop the trunk and then wait a bit and plant it in a bonsai pot. The leaves have stayed small on the bonsai tree and I'm hoping they'll stay small after I chop the new trunk. I planted a small jade forest in a pot too with cuttings and they're coming along. Funny thing is I don't even like like jade bonsai trees. Oh well.
Looking forward to seeing your jade pre and post chop!
 
I like this tree quite a lot. We have a lot of huge bougainvillea plants at home, the kind that get so huge they grow far higher than the house. My husband has had to prop branches with 4x4's and has switched to giant bamboo stalks. I'd stuck a branch of it in a large round planter (it used to be a fountain) that we grow succulents in. A few days ago I saw it and said, "What is this? " I pulled it out of the ground. My husband said, "That's bougainvillea". I'd forgotten I'd done it. I didn't use root hormone...just stuck it in the dirt and it rooted and had buds on it. Guess I'll have a bougainvillea starter but I really like these little ones.
 
20210805_194229.jpg
This one might be my favorite tree I collected this year. It was growing along train tracks and a larger birch had fallen on it. It has two root masses, the original one and another where the larger birch pinned it to the ground. The top was already dead when I found it. Had a rough life along the tracks.

Coffee cup for scale.
 
Cuphea Hyssopifolia (they flower here all year round), one of my most beloved species for bonsai (I have a total of 6)

View attachment 392846View attachment 392847View attachment 392848
Did you buy a container of it from a nursery and take cuttings? It seems to be in all the nurseries around Florida. I like the way you styled the pair of them. But I wondered if they come from cuttings you made?
 
It's a trident maple and what looks like a little azalea cutting with it.
 
View attachment 392894
This one might be my favorite tree I collected this year. It was growing along train tracks and a larger birch had fallen on it. It has two root masses, the original one and another where the larger birch pinned it to the ground. The top was already dead when I found it. Had a rough life along the tracks.

Coffee cup for scale.
Great find. I love birches. I've always wanted to get a Weeping Birch bonsai. I never find any seedlings near any, though plenty of seeds. I've done some air-layering, so maybe...
 
Indian hawthorn “Ballerina”

It has some oddness to it in regard to its structure, but I think it’s my fav piece of material. Looks nice when wet with the dark green leaves and dark brown, almost purple tinged, trunk

It gets some small pink flowers on it (it’s actually pushing a few flowers right now)

I’m thinking it needs a hard pruning to correct the structure

I’m watching when they go on sale and I’ll get another with better structure
 

Attachments

  • E1A650C5-7B39-499F-808A-97C824E5B5F5.jpeg
    E1A650C5-7B39-499F-808A-97C824E5B5F5.jpeg
    291.8 KB · Views: 33
Back
Top Bottom