Progressions Resource - I need your help!

Ulmus minor "sabamiki" (yes another very looong photo post)

Once upon a time there was a sleeping tree in a slope (year 2010, month february, place, somewhere in Spain whose name I don't want to remember) The poor tree, hardly stand by itself, so I cut back it to a more handeling high It had three big roots that I had to cut and the wild harmed...
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I too love progressions! Thanks for putting this together! I think they are a great way to learn

I post a progression every Thursday on my blog. Some will be better than others, but My hope is that they will get better over time.

thanks again @MHBonsai !!

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#ProgressionThursday - Twisted JBP Bonsai

I've thoroughly enjoyed this tree and it has taught me much about how JBPs work and grow.
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Prunus mume stock from Evergreen Gardenworks

Here is an ume I bought from Brent in a 1-gal can in January 2010. It was planted deep, and I potted it higher when I transplanted it to that terra cotta pot (bottom of the photo) a couple months later, somewhere around a 1/2" thick trunk. The tree after 4 seasons in the ground. The tag is...
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Winter Hazel

This is a tree a pal gave to me. He bought it as prebonsai and put in the ground for a few years. When he dug it up to pot it he discovered, to his dismay the trunk was completely hollow. It was chopped and put back into ground to be an ornamental in the garden. It only put out very leggy shoots...
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32 year old Acer Rubrum

This tree has appeared in some other threads but I thought it deserving of it own. This was the first tree I ever collected (1987-1988) and it was out of my own woods. It was stumped a few inches above the ground line and then let grow for a season to recover as well as it could. The following...
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1974 Procumbens

This was my very first bonsai that I purchased in 1987 from one of my art profs. from college that she had started in 1974. At the time she was trying to cull her crop and I was looking for a gift for my mother. My mother loved it......for 23 years!! I couldn't keep my hands off of it when I...
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Red Pine Progession, 11 years

Here is a Red pine progression, getting close to completion. Critique welcome. Sorry if images are big, haven't figured out yet how to easily make smaller. 2004, $5 nursery tree, initial styling 5 years earlier 2005, second styling 2007, new pot, jin lowest branch, refinement...
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Help Scott pick his keeper

OK - In October I also collected six Water elm. Now Water elm are not really elm - they are Planera aquatic, a closely related species. These are the first Water elm I've collected. Zach Smith of Bonsai South knows more about these than anyone I know, but I'm anxious to learn about them...
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Curly Willow 2.5 year progression from hard chop to detail wiring

This tree is special to me because it's one that I have been working the longest and have spent the most hours on. I pulled it off a trash heap in Nov. 2016. It was an unremarkable patio tree with about a 1 inch trunk. Unfortunately, I have no pictures of it then because I didn't yet...
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Contorted Japanese Flowering Apricot

My prunus mume contorta has undergone a few changes in the last year. Most important was continuing the slanting movement of the tree begun last year, slanting it even more. This makes for more interesting viewing and photographing angles. Growth has been good, though small in size. People...
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Cotoneaster progression

Good afternoon everyone... today I show you this tree that I bought in 2016 in a garden center near my home. In the first photo you can see the tree after the purchase. In the second photo the tree last autumn. In spring when the buds start growing I will change the pot :):)
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Porky's Progress, another Mugo

My wife and I moved to Michigan in 1970 so I could attend school and utilize my GI bill benefits. As we were unpacking all of her and my junk she noticed all of my bonsai pots. We mutually decided it might be a good idea if I started growing bonsai again. This is the first tree. I obtained...
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Calling all crab apple experts.

Hi all i have a question on the development of my crab apple. This tree is in full on development mode and it needs lots of new and better placed branches. My question is to get the most out of the season and not wasting too much energy should i stop the tree from flowering and eventually...
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Ulmus parvifolia (A) progression

I’m working on a longer term informal upright Chinese elm. I purchased the tree in early 2012 and its first three years were subpar due to my noob usage (“learning opportunity”) of subpar soil material (too organic), inadequate pot sizing, and poor timing of pruning. Tiny tree, mid-2012...
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