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[Ruddigger]

Ground layered my Japanese Maple.

 

[ZombieNick]

Did anyone attend the Baikoen Bonsai Kenkyukui 60th Winter Show? Sorry if I missed this already. The photos of the deciduous trees Jonas used in his newsletter about the show are stunning.

A little late, but I attended the show. Here's a pic of the Hornbeam and the Cork Elm:


Today, I attended a grafting workshop and attempted my first scion graft:

 

[JRidge]

Repotted a young pine into a larger training pot. The little cedar box dries out way too fast in the summer and the new pot will let the tree go wild and gain a bit of girth.

 

[bdmatt]

Worked with @Housguy to repot and detail wire his juniper. Not bad for its initial styling. Planning to make a progression thread for it eventually.

 

[KateM]

Finished this pot

 

[Cajunrider]

Sorted out left over BC seedlings from last year. Had to throw away some.

 

[SgtPilko]

Rough wiring on big chunky privet. Much more carving to come I reckon!

 

[R0b]

Repotting season has started (I do have a greenhouse). The Pseudocydonia needs some nebari development so planted a bit deeper.

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

Lots of practice wiring yesterday & today (about 8 hrs total). I wired up two bougainvillea, a dwarf schefflera, two TBF, & this tiny JM.




Then I cleaned, sharpened, & oiled some tools. It's a bonsai weekend for me.




Off to yell at my aerial roots so they harden up.

 

[Barbells and bonsai]

Potted the new Bald Cypress I collected yesterday

 

[SgtPilko]

Some Itoigawa basic wiring, reducing of jins and started a shari to eventually coil around. Need to do some more branch selection and styling during the year, get some backbudding and chase the foliage back towards the trunk.

 

[ShadyStump]

Potted the new Bald Cypress I collected yesterday

I like the root flair on that, and even got a knee it looks like.
Nice!

 

[19Mateo83]

I made a piece for an old abandoned homestead penjing I have been wanting to do. This is usually all that is left of old homesites that have been reclaimed by nature. I ran across one a few weeks ago while out hunting elms.

 

[David P]

Today I repoted my Pomegranate from its ceramic pot into a grow box I built this morning. Hopefully that will help thicken up the lower trunk a bit more. I had recently restyled this tree a couple weeks ago into a wind swept style. For some reason It started pushing new leafs early so I couldn’t wait till spring.
What do you guys think?

 

[broken_branch]

I was out at value village and found a little pot.
Then went out for milk and my local convenience store had a fresh batch of tropical plants. So when I saw this little Ficus Benjamina I figured it was ment for the pot I found earlier.

 

[Housguy]

Potted two shimpaku shohin trees before the crazy rain got here.

 

[RichardRoundestTree]

A buddy was tearing out his hedges and I took a 60-ish year old Buddhist Pine stump home with me. It's large and in-charge and I have no idea what I'm going to do with it yet other than let it grow and recover. I'm coastal South Carolina, so luckily this thing was mostly living in a sand/loam mix that seemed to encourage a bunch of ramification in the roots. Please check back in 20 years for an update. I also snagged some an oak or two (15 years?) that may or may not make it, a couple of azaleas, and two leafless mystery trees. I'll make a dedicated post after they're all cleaned up and if they turn out to be interesting. Also, this stump beast roots bested my Scotts shears. They don't make em like they used to.

 

[Faisal Ahmad]

Pruning my lovely Premna

 

[Kievnstavick]

I sifted out the fines from my lava rock I bought the other day. Ended up having a lot less fines then I expected from landscape 3/8 minus. I am letting the fines dry out over night to further sift it for potential use later on.

Ended up buying 14 3/4 Gallons of 3/32in to 3/16in. Landing me at $0.32 per Gal or $5.45 per Gal if accounting for my hourly wage.

Compared to Bonsaijacks $12.10 per gal, I feel like the effort was worth it in the end.

I then made approximately 24 Gallons of my substrate. Ready to start repotting real soon.

 

[FreshAirSunshine]

Lost a close friend in Bonsai this week. . I treasured the time we spent together and feel fortunate to have some of his trees to care for in my collection. So today I spent time considering the memories associated with each of those trees and planning their future care. I am fairly sure some other B Nuts will have known and respected Peter Wilson who lived in Campbell River on Vancouver Island. Some of you may have seen a few of his trees in the Kennet Collection, or in the gardens of Bonsai practitioners throughout the Pacific Northwest. A generous person with his time and knowledge that contributed to the growth of Bonsai not just on Vancouver Island, but touching the lives of many hobbyists and masters in Canada and the USA. Shore Pine collected by Peter in 2012 If I remember correctly. He carefully nurtured its recovery for three years after collection and it began development under my care since 2015. Will think of Peter often as I work with a living legacy of his efforts.

It’s a beautiful tree to remind you of fond memories. Personally, I’d take a bonsai over a gravestone every day of the week. Sorry for your loss.