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I’m going to be in San Francisco for a couple of days in November (work). I was wondering if there was anything bonsai-related I should check out. I already know about the bonsai garden at Lake Merritt, so that is on the list. I won’t have time to visit any nurseries/clubs etc, but are there...

Hi, Has anyone out there had success propagating Ilex serrata (Japanese deciduous holly) from cuttings? If so, any guidance on timing/technique would be very welcome. Thanks in advance.

There seems to be some interest in birch at the moment, so I thought I'd share this work-in-progress shohin Betula pubescens, downy birch. It was collected (legally) in November 2017. I dug it because of the dense twiggy growth (it was from a moorland area where it had been grazed by animals)...

Has anyone out there successfully air (or ground) layered Pinus densiflora? The general nurseries near me are stocking a nice dwarf cultivar but they're all grafts of course. If one could layer off above the graft, I've seen some stock that has great shohin potential. Has anyone done this with a...

I've been playing round setting up a display involving these two trees, a cascading shohin Field Maple (Acer campestre) and an informal Sloe / Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) which is slightly larger than shohin size. Any constructive criticism welcome. My own self-critique is that the elements are...

Inspired by @M. Frary 's recent post, here are four Scots pines I collected this last winter. Three out of the four are looking healthy and pushing new growth, the fourth is at least 99% likely to dead but I won't toss it for a while just in case. They're small trees with decent shohin...

Thought I might put this here, as there's a forum specifically for stands and I haven't posted many of mine. A few shots of a new shohin-sized stand (height is 45mm, diameter of the roughly-rounded top is 130mm). Made from oak burr wood. The material is pretty rough and a pain to work with, but...

Hi all I've been seeing examples of Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Teddy Bear' in regular nurseries local to me, and I'm wondering if anyone had any experience of using that specific cultivar for bonsai (or indeed any information about it, I can't find much). It seems to have fairly compact foliage...

I'm planning a display for next weekend. The tree is a (large) shohin-size Prunus spinosa (Sloe or Blackthorn). I've got a couple of options of an accent plant. I'm fairly sure what I'm going to choose but I wondered what other people might think. What would you choose, and why? A: 'Tiny Tears'...

This is a work-in-progress common Hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna. I have a bit of a conflict about the movement of the tree, so I wondered how other people saw it. Based only on what you can see in this picture, would you say the movement of the tree is to the left or to the right? Why?