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Picked this Satsuki 'Shin Nikko' up when Rick Garcia visited Milwaukee this August. I forgot if I made a thread for it. I'm planning to use this as a progression thread. Today I am removing flower buds. Tedious, and they are still quite small, I will have to do several rounds of bud removal...

Milwaukee Bonsai Society is hosting a 50th Anniversary Celebration, and MABA Bonsai Show and Convention When: June 22 - 26, 2022 Where: Four Points Milwaukee North Shore, 8900 North Kildeer Court, Milwaukee, WI, 53209 It's less than a month away, please put the date on your calendars. Everyone...

Milwaukee Bonsai Society is hosting a 50th Anniversary Celebration, and MABA Bonsai Show and Convention When: June 22 - 26, 2022 Where: Four Points Milwaukee North Shore, 8900 North Kildeer Court, Milwaukee, WI, 53209 It's less than a month away, please put the date on your calendars. Everyone...

Speaking of MABA - Mid-America Bonsai Association - the Milwaukee Bonsai Society is hosting a 50th Anniversary Celebration, and MABA Bonsai Show and Convention When: June 22 - 26, 2022 Where: Four Points Milwaukee North Shore, 8900 North Kildeer Court, Milwaukee, WI, 53209 It's less than a...

Following up on a post in a thread, lets plan a trip for @HorseloverFat (Leo 2) or the (other Leo) . He will be travelling to Florida in autumn, from Green Bay Wisconsin, and I'd like someone from each state along any of the several possible routes to suggest state parks with camping facilities...

With my new moniker, "Professor" I thought I start a "theoretical thread", where I have not done all the work. I live right at the IL-WI border, close to Lake Michigan. When I first started growing bonsai, my area was considered USDA zone 4b or 5a, now 40 years later, still living in the same...

Just trying to figure out You Tube uploads. Wild weather today, waves on Lake Michigan at Winthrop Harbor were incredible, 8 to 16 feet.

At the moment, I'm killing time, avoiding doing productive tasks, like mowing the lawn. There are a few here that have dabbled with growing chili pepper plants using bonsai styling techniques to make "Bonchi" or "Bonchili" or "Bonsai chili trees". If one has a sense of humor, or doesn't take...

I neglected to post this sooner. The Milwaukee Bonsai Society show and sale is at the Lynden Sculpture garden ending today at 4 pm. Get there if you have time this afternoon. Lynden Sculpture Garden or Park is north of Milwaukee, about a mile west of Highway 43 on the south side of Brown Deer...

I have highbush blueberry plants, select varieties for fruit production, 2 to 4 years from tissue culture. These are Vaccinium corymbosum varieties. Blueberries can make a nice bonsai, or kusamono, they do not make big thick trunks very quickly, but they can be pleasant. White urn shaped...

I'll be in the Branson area from may 10 through May 15, any stops I should put on my list of sights to visit. I will be taking short half day hikes into the woods in the area. If anyone know good points to visit for big trees, or nice waterfalls that would be cool too. Thanks Leo

Available: 12-1-4 K-Lite version of MSU formulation - water soluble fertilizer. This soluble fertilizer is based on the MSU Orchid Special with the Potassium level reduced to avoid toxicity in continuous feeding and hydroponic systems. The amount of calcium and magnesium have been adjusted to...

While in Saint Louis area, visiting my parents. Yes, even old farts such as myself sometimes are blessed (or cursed) with parents that are still alive. My folks are 90 years old each, mostly blind, and some dementia, but otherwise relatively healthy. They live in a care facility near Clarkston...

I just received my order from Kyle and Jessica, the Pot Punching Potters. The pots are nice, good quality, and the packing and shipping was top notch. There was enough bubble wrap that you could have used the pots as a football, and there would be no breakage. Shipping was very prompt. The pot I...

I am planning on digging a highbush blueberry from the farm in SW Michigan. I have some old blueberries that we are slowly replacing with younger stock. Should be able to dig one with 40 year old root system. The highbush blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum, is native to MI. I live on the farm part...

my placeholder I need to decide which tree to use.

I went nuts, blame it on being cooped up avoiding Covid19. So far so good for myself. I was shopping on line at Singing Tree, a mail order nursery that I've dealt with in the past. Prices are fairly good, not "cheap" but not overly expensive. I picked up 4 azaleas, #1 size, roughly about a 5...

Just saw this on You Tube. I found it fascinating. The end results, those coconut seedlings are dwarfed. Notice how short the trunks are. Seedling coconuts reach for the sky left to their own devices. This is not because of the fancy cleaning and polishing of the nut shell. Towards the end of...

Update, Whip bought in 2019 from David Kreutz. I lost the tag, so don't know which cultivar it is. (this irritates me, I hate loosing the pedigree of good stock). This is the whip I submitted when @Pitoon first announced the contest. Took it out of the well house 2 weeks ago, added some wire...

I like @bonhe 's idea of a single thread for the collecting photos and things I'm doing bonsai wise that don't deserve separate threads. It will also make it easier to find just one thread rather than one for each of dozens of trees. First up is a new acquisition, from Singing Tree Nursery...

Those that know me, know I tend to keep too many projects going at once. Chrysanthemums, or Mums for short, are a project that have held my interest to a degree, but I have never had the time to do them justice. I bring the topic up again, in the hopes that someone with more energy than me, will...

I have admired deciduous azalea for years. Their growth pattern of short then long internodes is very different from the Satsuki and Kurume. I am particularly interested in the 'Northern Lights' series of winter hardy azalea hybrids. Please post your experiences here. What works, what...

Never thought it a simple favor for a nephew would turn out like this. Tuesday, I blew off going to Milwaukee Bonsai Society executive committee meeting, I should have been there, secretary is my job this year, but I don't get to see my 25 year old youngest nephew very often. So I agreed to...

check out this video many bald cypresses older than 1000 years and a few over 2000 years old. all in North Carolina YouTube Video: Ancient Bald Cypress of Black River, North Carolina

I'm in the northern burbs of Chicago, or the southern burbs of Milwaukee. About as many local neighbors work in Wisconsin as work in Illinois. I'm just a few miles south of where the Illinois-Wisconsin border meets Lake Michigan, a little less than 2 miles from the Lake. This winter 2018-2019...