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April 2007 - Posts
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In China, viewing stones (scholars' rocks and spirit stones known by the Chinese as "Gongshi") have been an art of appreciation for over a thousand Read More...
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My American amethyst falls wisteria has bloomed this season and I wanted to document each phaze of the raceme since it is not often that this occurs. Plus Read More...
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This is one of my crepe myrtles. It was repotted and heavily root pruned this year. It has budded back strong and shows signs of potential, but i have Read More...
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On Sunday 29th of April some friends and I went collecting Olives. Although I just went to show them where as I do not want any more trees. As the title Read More...
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Ok... so it isn't bonsai. But who can resist enjoying these little guests of Elanden Gardens??? Dan took me out to see a newly hatched Kildeer and its Read More...
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Here are our photos of the 42nd Annual Spring 2007 Bonsai Exhibition held in San Diego California this past weekend.
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Where are all the pictures? Reports? Did anybody have any fun? Read More...
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Hi, A basic tree pruning question.... If I were to take - for example - a 2 meter tree with a three inch trunk and chop it to around 12 inches tall, would Read More...
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Just had a google as I wasnt sure what Yamadori meant(now I do!) and I came upon this site that sells them and I cant believe some of the prices!
Some Read More...
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What experience has anyone had with Bayer's systemic fungicide/insecticide for trees? Do you know of any harm to any bonsai attributable to this product? Read More...
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anyone have a good process on how to acclimate to the outdoors with minimum stress? I have a ficus, jade and hawaiian umbrella. Read More...
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Ive had this Cotoneaster franchetii in training for a few years now and after just letting it grow it was time to do a chop and get some taper.
Following Read More...
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This is a branch of the plum tree we have in the garden and the other day I decided to take the plunge and have air layer a branch. I used the half pot Read More...
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My brother-in-law took his tub back over the weekend, which means I cant dunk my pots anymore. Any ideas on where I can purchase a metal or plastic ...tub? Read More...
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HI my english ist not the best but i want to invite all of you to visit my private homepage : www.bonsai-regensburg.de.tl During may will follow the complete Read More...
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Yippeee look what I just got in the mail>!!!!
with more on the way.. JBhayman Read More...
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Today Dan asked me to prune an old boxwood. The tree was collected in NYC, I believe, and it is well over 100 years old. The tree had not been pruned in Read More...
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Last weekend Dan brought a Japanese Black Pine, to the garden, from his personal collection at home. This is a tree he had grown from seed over 43 years Read More...
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I am a Bonsai Newbie, I have had a juniper Bonsai...died, I have had a ficus Bonsai...died. So two years ago I was told of the Korean Hornbeam, and how Read More...
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HAVE A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
:D :D :D :D ;D Irene Read More...
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Hello everyone, I transplanted a thuja occidentalis of about 10 years old that was growing in my childhood garden. I put it in a mix regular bonsai soil. Read More...
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I am a Bonsai Newbie, I have had a juniper Bonsai...died, I have had a ficus Bonsai...died. So two years ago I was told of the Korean Hornbeam, and how Read More...
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Great news everyone! It has been over a year since my bad car accident. I am still alive!!!! Read More...
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I have been noticing the strangest illness and am worried for one of my favorite trees. Many of its leaves get a line accross the tip of the leaf. The Read More...
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Hi everybody,
here are some pictures of 2 of my Hawthorns I made this afternoon. I was just in time to make them, because the flower paddles were all ready Read More...
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first I would like to say hi to everyone since I am new here(as well as in bonsai craft) I'd like to ask one question. I just bought a young tree(i would Read More...
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Can anyone provide about effective Nandina pruning. I haven't found the logic of it yet! Read More...
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Good-morning, Dudes Here is something that I've never encountered before. This last winter I have 3 Liquid Ambers in a pot. Two of the trees lost there Read More...
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Hey all. I would like to hear what you have to say about what to do with this next or what to aim for. Im thinkink I need to develop the foliage to a better Read More...
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here is another club auction purchase from nov.2005. i have changed planting angle and arranged roots accoringly thats why under soil some need to grow. Read More...
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Hi everyone, I'm new to bonsais and need a bit of assistance. I inherited a little tree which I was told was a bonsai. Right now, I have two main questions: Read More...
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This tree was purchased in February and restyled in one of our club workshops with Bill Timlinson from New England Bonsai. Jonny Read More...
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I've been working on this Hinoki for about 6 years.
It's come a long way, and it's starting to develop into a nice little tree. Jonny Read More...
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I'm trying to develop some taper in this bald cypress. You can see my 1st cut about 3 inches from the soil line which is well on its way to healing over Read More...
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Can anyone tell me where I can buy bonsai tools in Amsterdam? There aren't any in my country and next week a friend can buy it for me in Amsterdam... Thanks Read More...
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I've gone back and forth on this tree a few times since I've had it.Pot selection,front,deadwood,branch selection....you name it...I've changed my mind Read More...
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Greetings This is my mysterious friend. Can anyone tell me what specie is this? thanks .....
SVB - Sociedad Venezolana de Bonsai Read More...
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Greetings This is my mysterious friend. Can anyone tell me what specie is this? thanks bonsaikarma
Sociedad venezolana de Bonsai Read More...
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Hello all. Can someone please help me with my Carmona Macrophylla? I have had her about a year and a half now and up until now everything was fine. I then Read More...
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Hello everyone, I am about to try an air layer on one of my elms and need some guidance. The elm i am working with is a shohin and one branch is offsetting Read More...
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I have read articles that say watering in the morning is best, and I have read other articles that say watering in the evening is best. These guys say Read More...
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HAVE A HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE P!!! I HOPE IT HAS BEEN A GOOD ONE WITH LOTS OF... Read More...
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Hi i was wondering if someone could tell me how to get branches to form on some japanes black pines. I have 3 that were grown from seeds, and they are Read More...
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For my birthday, my sister-in-law went to my favorite Chinese art and artifact store here in town and bought this figurine to add to my collection. Mik Read More...
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Thanks to the following members for their generosity in contributing to bonsaiTALK for the month of April 2007: blackasknight
ozzy
BrianP03103
Please remember Read More...
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I've really got to stop letting people take care of my trees. OK, technically, this one wasn't mine, but my mother almost killed it once, and I had to Read More...
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Here is a little Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Tsukumo' that I did from plain old nursery stock. It was $9 and made a cute little tree in about an hour. Hopefully Read More...
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The Potomac Bonsai Association show and sale is next weekend at the National Arboretum in D.C. Friday through Sunday. Anyone going? Shouldn't miss it if Read More...
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My yard is in an area that centuries ago was forest, and it wants to be again. Trees are constantly popping up all over the place. This is kind of good Read More...
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Not too long ago I pruchased a trident maple from a local nursery. It wasn't in leaf yet, so I put it in the shade, watered it appropriately and waited Read More...
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Does anyone know if any clubs are thinking of brining out Craig Coussins to Australia?? JBhayman Read More...
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What is the etiquette for photographing trees at shows. I am going to the Bimer Bonsai show tomorrow (in Brisbane) and would like to take some pics of Read More...
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I dug this out of a garden in 1999. The training over the past years was to develop the left side. The lower left branch was a throw back after digging Read More...
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The forum software provider has complained that their copyright robot didn't see the copyright info plainly visible at the footer of our site and threatened Read More...
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I feel like its time for me to post my true feelings about this site. Im sure Im not the first to bring this up but here we go. I enjoy the different forums Read More...
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A "stick in a pot".That's what this ficus was about 10 years ago.And then I put it in a bigger pot.And then a bigger one.For the last 2 or 3 Read More...
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i have just planted five jap. white birch and nine crab apples in my yard about a lawn mower width apart. last spring they came bare root at which time Read More...
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Just got this in the latest shohin europe newsletter. Be cool to see,i don't think I've ever come across a book devoted to shohin before:
The Shohin-Bonsai Read More...
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I brought this home from work yesterday, it was a STEAL at $27.50. Anyway, with the undertstanding that this most likely won't look good for another 20 Read More...
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Have some promising nursery stock on hand that I want to place in wooden growing boxs to promote root growth. Can I use pressure treated wood to construct Read More...
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OK, so I didn't actually style the tree myself, some hack named Marco did, but I did go pick up lunch. The deadwood will be refined at a later date, we Read More...
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I have a shimpaku juniper which has spidermites. Ive been fighting these things for a few months now without total success. There are now no visable webs Read More...
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Back in 2000,when I was only doing bonsai about a year,I bought three grafted Black Tartarian cherries.I still have all three,but one of these has contracted Read More...
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So here it is, the fruit of my labours when I should have been doing coursework! A piece of driftwood about a foot high, hope to make a tanuki in the style Read More...
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Working on a Juniper procumbens planted in/around a great piece of collected cypress. When wrapping branches around a limb of driftwood, what are my options Read More...
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My shipment of 25 Japanese White Pine saplings showed up today. These are seed grown and will go into the ground this week once I get well enough to be Read More...
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First styling attempt on this Buxus, a species I have never worked on before. Nursery bought, pot full of roots. I had to remove almost 70 percent of the Read More...
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new pyracantha any advice on what i should do with it. I know i should train a new leader to get some tapering in this plant, but i am kinda at a lost Read More...
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I've got an old Arakawa maple that I purchased very rootbound. It had a layer of moss that started to grow from the soil's surface up to the trunk. Over Read More...
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I am sure that most of you out there use grow boxes (or at least have thought about it). Of this group, I am sure that there is a good percentage that Read More...
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Hi, I am new to Bonsai. But I have 3 trees which I bought as a bonsai plant. Let's get to the point, I bought Fukien Tea from local Nursery. I tried to Read More...
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I decided the time was right to do a little styling on my "Itowigawa" for our upcoming Bonsai Show in Oklahoma City in May. It took most of the Read More...
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