Like a python that has just eaten a big prey and needing time to digest. I am now working through all my collected Mayhaw, moving them from grow bed to pot, pruning, wiring, and carving. By the time I am through, I think I will have 20 pre-bonsai Mayhaws.
For BCs, I am now just watching them grow, fertilizing and managing the watering. They all have been chopped and are in proper container & substrate. Next year will be a big year for BC shaping. I gave up looking for those cantankerous knees in the submerged BCs. They might or might not come and in their own time. I can't force that. My BC collecting is done with one exception - I need to collect Robin.
My tropicals are humming along. The royal poinciana is growing like it does every year. Once again no flower for it this year. My jujube is due for another chop. It grew 3 ft since the chop in early spring. I think if I leave it alone it will have some fruit but then it will be a tall tree all over again. It is already 4 ft tall. The rainbow eucalyptus are as far from being a bonsai as they have always been. One Tamarindus indica is humming along. The other nearly died last winter and is recovering.
I've learned a lot with my Mayhaw and BC forests. All my forests are now pleasing to my eyes. I am developing apexes for the trees in the forest and working on ramification of the branches. Three are already in mica bonsai pots. All are growing well.
My Nippon daisies are bushing out again. It will be a long time before it become recognizable as a bonsai. Right now they are growing as flower bushes.
. So far I'm just collecting small elms at my house, and a couple mangled cedars that were under a pine tree at a local park. The elms will be either upright or slanted, and the cedars will either be wind swept or cascade. The cedars are probably 5+ years old, but due to getting ripped by the mowers they have been pretty stunted. They only have juvenile foliage and they're all super ugly lol. The elms are all untouched due to growing in a "flower garden" that only has bark at the moment. Although they're all small, and or ugly I am super excited to get back into the saddle after having to leave everything behind in CA for the move. Every so often I check Google Street view to check on the Chinese elm that's planted on a ceramic tile in the ground.
