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  1. Brian Van Fleet

    What it the most you have ever spent on a single bonsai pot? (results will be anonymous)

    Picking up on Greg’s tree price thread, let’s go again with pots. Post a photo of your pot to really make this thread interesting…
  2. Brian Van Fleet

    Alabama Bonsai Society 2023 Spring Show

    We had a great show this weekend. Here are some pix of the event.
  3. Brian Van Fleet

    Bonsai Empire: Developing Bonsai from Seed course

    Oscar and Bonsai Empire have done it again. Bjorn Bjorholm and Michael Hagedorn have tag-teamed from opposite ends of the USA to bring another great course on bonsai, this time working with material accessible to the most frugal bonsai practitioner: seeds, cuttings, and layers. Check it out...
  4. Brian Van Fleet

    Bonsai Empire’s Intermediate 2 Course

    Bonsai Empire has released its new course, and it is fantastic, packed with content and is truly a masterclass taught by Bjorn Bjorholm and Michael Hagedorn. It is now available here: https://www.bonsaiempire.com/courses/intermediate-course-2 Oscar provided me with early access for...
  5. Brian Van Fleet

    Alabama Bonsai Spring Show, May 14-15, 2022

    The Alabama Bonsai Society’s Spring Show is May 14-15 at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. https://fb.me/e/4SfnKOOCn
  6. Brian Van Fleet

    Bama Snow ‘22

    It was nearly 80 on New Year’s eve, and it’s 30 now. We have close to our annual snowfall total on the ground. Happy New Year, B’nuts. Kiyozuru Itoigawa: Trident maple: Stewartia: Corkbark JBP, ‘Taihei’ JBP:
  7. Brian Van Fleet

    Ginkgo Pot Preference Poll

    I’ll preface this with a comment that I don’t believe I have found the perfect pairing yet, but here are a bunch I had to choose from. If you were choosing the pot for this ginkgo, which would you pick? Why? 1. Brown rectangle 2. Tan bag-shaped oval 3. Oribe rectangle Koyo 4. Black...
  8. Brian Van Fleet

    A lot can happen in 5 years

    I took this photo recently and was struck with the twigginess the trees were starting to develop. It prompted me to look back at the same trees 5 years ago to see how they’ve come along. It’s good to look back a little to see progress. Let’s see your trees today and 5 years ago.
  9. Brian Van Fleet

    Jupiter-Saturn Convergence

    We have some great photographers here, hopefully we’ll see some spectacular shots. Highlands, NC, Sunset rock. Grainy iPhone photo, but both planets are visible. Pretty cool.
  10. Brian Van Fleet

    Vance Wood turned up in Alabama🤪

    Haven’t seen him around the forum in a while, and he turns up on the news in Alabama this morning...doing a Mike Frary impression!😂
  11. Brian Van Fleet

    Summer Repotting

    Last year, this thread sparked discussion about the merits of late-summer repotting. Instead of replying there again, I thought I’d start a new thread. While that thread’s OP calls it “late summer repotting”, often that process is described/shown as shifting a tree from one vessel to another...
  12. Brian Van Fleet

    Kimura Masterclass on Bonsai Empire

    Our US Nuts can spend Memorial Day weekend with The Magician: https://www.bonsaiempire.com/courses/kimura-masterclass Be sure to check it out when it drops; this Masterclass is really something special.
  13. Brian Van Fleet

    Alabama Bonsai Society 2020 (virtual) Spring Show

    Our show was canceled this year, so members photographed trees for a virtual show. Enjoy.
  14. Brian Van Fleet

    Stewartia Monadelpha

    I have always wanted a Stewartia, and in December 2018, I had the opportunity to dig one from a grower’s field in Georgia: Bare-rooted and washed off the Georgia red clay when I got it home: Potted: By late May, 2019, it was pretty strong, and clearly hadn’t skipped a beat from being dug and...
  15. Brian Van Fleet

    Pick a pot for this quince

    Which do you prefer, feel free to add comments.
  16. Brian Van Fleet

    BVF 2020-25 Azalea Contest Entry

    Here is my entry, a random azalea found discarded on the side of the road in my neighborhood. Potted... Good luck to all.
  17. Brian Van Fleet

    2020 New Year’s Bonsai Resolutions

    Merry Christmas Eve, and Happy New Year. Been thinking a little about bonsai goals for 2020. A few I have include: 1. Show again in the USNBE...hopefully get there in person as well. 2. Update the bonsai display area with a few long benches to replace some of the monkey poles. 3. Build a sort...
  18. Brian Van Fleet

    A Friday Funny

    You’re welcome.😜
  19. Brian Van Fleet

    Weekend at Eisei-en

    Spent the weekend at Bjorn’s nursery (perfect timing for a BNut server upgrade😜). Here are some photos from around the nursery this AM. RMJ: My JBP: Chinese quince: Chojubai: Itoigawa: RMJ: Workshop/entrance: One-seed (?) Juniper: Styrax left, JWP right: One of my favorite RMJ...
  20. Brian Van Fleet

    Corkbark JBP, ‘Taihei’

    This is a Corkbark JBP cultivar that showed promising bark in the photos. I bought it from a grower, Dave DeWire, out in WA in 2009. I’ve showed pix over the years, but it hasn’t had its own thread yet. These are as offered from the grower in 2009: It’s about 24” tall.
  21. Brian Van Fleet

    Wanted: Acer Palmatum ‘Seigen’

    Anyone have a verified ‘Seigen’ root cutting they’d be willing to sell or trade for some similar-sized Itoigawa or Satsuki Azalea ‘Kinsai’ cuttings? Seigen has been on my list since BT #47 arrived in my mailbox in around 1996. ?. Thanks...
  22. Brian Van Fleet

    The Shohin Tree Thread

    Like “The Tree Thread”, this is a new thread where, if you comment, you have to post a picture of one of your Shohin trees (8” or less in height), in a Bonsai pot, and ideally in a display format. You can post the same tree multiple times, in different seasons, different arrangements, or with...
  23. Brian Van Fleet

    Shohin Shimpaku Air Layer

    The parent tree was also from Evergreen Gardenworks, it has a thread here called Crazy Shimpaku. As purchased in 2013: Here was the air layer:
  24. Brian Van Fleet

    Shohin crabapple, ‘sargentii’

    This one came from Evergreen Gardenworks in 2016. Good movement for a small crabapple. Here is a shot from it as received.
  25. Brian Van Fleet

    African Cichlid Aquarium

    My daughter has been asking to set up another cichlid tank for a few years now. In a moment of weakness, my wife conceded, so we sprang on it. Bought the biggest tank we could find, 75 gallons. Believe it or not, the first one leaked. Second one works fine, but I probably need to get a...
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