The Tree Thread

[Brian Van Fleet]

Unwired this Shimpaku yesterday, after Bonsai Crazy styled it in 2016. It has potential to be an interesting tree at some point. Next, I’d like to tighten up the cascade so it’s a little closer to the pot, and start to reveal a little more of the trunk.

 

[Waltron]

Collected Ostrya, American hop hornbeam. Can’t recall if this is the 3rd or 4th season, but I repotted into this small 6” terra-cotta last spring, should have a good “shin” or bonsai root ball or whatever the Japanese word for it is, after this season. Need to work thechop and prob some of the big root, but seems to be on its way to being a strong shohin, probably 9” tall, 3-4” at base.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Photo from earlier this morning...pyracantha. Pot by John Cannon.

 

[TomB]

Semi-cascade Acer palmatum with a Cotoneaster horizontalis companion. Pots by Stone Monkey and Erin respectively, stands by me.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Semi-cascade Acer palmatum with a Cotoneaster horizontalis companion. Pots by Stone Monkey and Erin respectively, stands by me.

Wow...beautiful photography and specimens. All a work of art...and you made the stands as well. Those are beautiful!

Now for less than perfect photograph...my Bald Cypress.

 

[Adair M]

A semi-dwarf Japanese White Pine:

 

[Milly]

Semi-cascade Acer palmatum with a Cotoneaster horizontalis companion. Pots by Stone Monkey and Erin respectively, stands by me.

Like this a lot.

My Seiju Elm

 

[Vance Wood]

My next victim for this year.

Another Kromholz Mugo design attempt for this coming year.

Base to be jinned and top to be styled as a netsuranari.

 

[Cadillactaste]

My next victim for this year.

Another Kromholz Mugo design attempt for this coming year.

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Had to google that style...? Makes sense. Will enjoy your process and progress photos.

Profile photo currently...Boston Ivy.

 

[TomB]

Shohin-sized crab apple. This tree has really disappointed me this year. It flowered poorly, then had a persistent infestation of woolly aphids. The tree then developed ugly galls on the trunk and branches in reaction to the aphids. I’m going to try to remove these as far as possible, but I'm inevitably going to have to cut back some of the branches, and it sets back the development a couple of years. Frustrating.
Pretty apple though

 

[Underdog]

This Tom Thumb Cotoneaster will be blood red within a week,

 

[ihaveaspaceship]

Sago palm hanging out with some of my trees

 

[plant_dr]

My ginkgo younglings are starting to change!

 

[TN_Jim]

Late summer find. $3. Another parsons

 

[mattspinniken]

Scots in the water...

 

[Adair M]

A Kokonoe twin trunk:

 

[Vance Wood]

I saw this tree in New York a couple of years ago.

 

[TomB]

Work-in-progress Acer palmatum. Working to develop the ramification on this one now. I've stripped the leaves but haven't done my autumn trimming / bud & twig selection yet. Bottom left maybe needs growing out a little more to balance it.

 

[Adair M]

I saw this tree in New York a couple of years ago.

Yes, you did! Jonas brought it to Rochester from Boon’s for me, and I brought it home from there. The tree wasn’t doing very well at Boon’s, so we decided it would do better in my climate. Boon’s old place in the Bay Area, was too cool in the summer for JWP to thrive. They do like warm summers. Not blazing hot, but they do need some warm weather.

It has absolutely thrived here in the foothills of the North Georgia mountains. We get cold enough it gets a good dormant period in the winter, and have warm summers.

At Boon’s the color was pale, and the needles were really short. Too short!

I have three or four JWP that I purchased from the Bay Area, and they have all faired much better with me. They were very blue when I purchased them, and at my house, they have all turned very dark green!

Here’s another JWP from the Bay Area: the “Z Tree”. JWP grafted onto a yamadori Lodgepole trunk about 23 years ago.



And, Vance, you owe the thread a photo of a tree!

 

[pback]

What??? We’re having a shortage of pine posts? Horrors!

Let’s remedy that!

Here’s my “Exposed root Japanese White Pine Semi-Cascade”:

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And here’s a picture with a Landshark for scale:

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I don’t generally LOVE conifers. Or cascade style. Or exposed roots. But this is one of my favorite trees I’ve seen on this site - or ever.

Also, as a bonsai - and BonsaiNut - newbie, I love this thread so much.

Oh, and here’s my only real tree because rules...