US Native Deciduous Trees (please share your photos)

[justBonsai]

I am a big proponent for using native trees. For me they always grow better, have less pest issues, and show lots a vigor. The recent discussion on WP's thread brought to notice that there are a lot of native deciduous trees being used and developed but do not receive as much exposure as their coniferous counterparts.

I thought it be cool if we could share photos of the native deciduous trees you're developing. So far I only have oaks but may be adding a big cedar elm to my collection in the future. Here is my oak, still very raw material but 3 years in development from just a trunk.

(The white thing in front is a wet paper towel and seram wrap. I was setting an approach graft and made the hole too small. The buds and branch got damaged threading it through so I thought if I kept the branch humid and moist it'd make it--it didn't)

 

[Dav4]

Southern Hackberry/ sugarberry
Littlehip Hawthorne
Water elm
Water Elm
Hawthorne

 

[cbroad]

Here are a few pictures of my native trees. I also have some Sweetgums, Bald Cypress, and Carolina Hornbeam but no pictures of those...

Winged Elm air layer: severed from parent tree in summer of 2016. I did nothing to this tree this season except kept watered. Also dug up two saplings in the winter of 2016.

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• Sep 1, 2016
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Winterberry Holly: this is one of two that I have. It is a dwarf cultivar (Red Sprite), so technically not a native species and I also suspect there are some serrata genetics with this cultivar. I chopped this back hard in the fall of 2016 and did nothing else this season except let it grow out and it has put on a lot of new growth but don't have any updated pictures. Planning on a hard root prune next spring and some branch selection.

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• Nov 18, 2016

Before cut back:

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• Sep 6, 2016

 

[Andrew Robson]

Red Maple (Acer rubrum) from my teacher Michael Hagedorn's garden. Grown not from a collected stump, but patiently over several decades from a seedling.

https://crataegus.com/portfolio/portfolio/

 

[Wilson]

Red Maple (Acer rubrum) from my teacher Michael Hagedorn's garden. Grown not from a collected stump, but patiently over several decades from a seedling.

https://crataegus.com/portfolio/portfolio/

So beautiful! I love to see the trees developed from seed, such commitment.

 

[justBonsai]

Here's a well known tree.

Ben Oki Hackberry, took this photograph 2 years ago at the Pacific Northwest Bonsai Museum.

 

[Anthony]

First year of training [ hope to turn out something as good as Guy Guidry's effort.]

Celtis l.
The survivor- a root.



Guy Guidry's Hackberry ========== Marvellous.

 

[CamdenJim]

Sweetgum group/forest, getting started in a box last year.

 

[JudyB]

Grown not from a collected stump, but patiently over several decades from a seedling.

By the late great Anne Spencer if I'm not mistaken.

 

[JudyB]

Here's a well known tree.

Ben Oki Hackberry, took this photograph 2 years ago at the Pacific Northwest Bonsai Museum.

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one of my very favorite trees. Did you see this Tucker Oak there, amazing.
And a photo of the Hackberry in leaf.

 

[JudyB]

I'll play, I have others but these two are the most transformed.
Hackberry collected in Louisiana.
And Crabapple collected in Michigan.

 

[PaulH]

Coast Live Oak


Oregon Oak





California Buckeye


Interior Live Oak

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Going into large pot for several years. Hackberry.

 

[ohiogrown]

Nothing special. Need lots of work. Some Maples,I think a dogwood, and a elm. Collected last spring.

 

[sdavis]

Larix lyalli (subalpine larch) a WA and MT native

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Thuja occidentalis - chop stick marks approximate front for the moment. Purchased in 2016

 

[MrFancyPlants]

That's a nice one Leo, but is it deciduous?

 

[thumblessprimate1]

My cedar elm. I like its growth, leaves, fall color, and bark.

 

[miker]

Dave, that Southern Hackberry is beautiful.

 

[justBonsai]

one of my very favorite trees. Did you see this Tucker Oak there, amazing.
And a photo of the Hackberry in leaf.
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That tucker oak is very nice. I've seen photos of it but it was not on display when I went.