Have you named your tree and why?

[Dorian Fourie]

I know that quite a few of the masterpieces out there are named but I was wondering if anyone named their trees and why did you give it the name.

I have only named one bonsai although I do call my other trees some names sometimes that I will not repeat here.

I have a small Hinoki Cypress landscape that I received as a gift from my family. I called it "Kazoku" which means family in Japanese. There are 5 small trees, one for each family member, i.e myself, my wife Katie and my 3 boys Hayden, Callum and Jamie

August 2014



August 2015


February 2016

 

[jomawa]

I was wondering if anyone named their trees and why did you give it the name.

Had an Azalea, and only one so named her "Azy" then managed to kill her. My avatar, vine maples in soap dish, I named "Whimsy" because it tends to describe it uncritically rather than something like "Dumb Newby Project". These are the only bonsai I've named. I use names in my picture files of my bonsai but I simply use descriptive terms, no "names" have come to mind for the others. Looking at your display, the thing that comes to my mind is cute, but I would not chose that as a name for it. I mean no disrespect by cute, as I have no idea what it takes to do an arrangement like that, but cute is all that came to mind.

 

[Tieball]

No names. I have enough things to remember.

 

[Dorian Fourie]

. Looking at your display, the thing that comes to my mind is cute, but I would not chose that as a name for it. I mean no disrespect by cute, as I have no idea what it takes to do an arrangement like that, but cute is all that came to mind.

Cute is cool because it is cute.

 

[jomawa]

Cute is cool because it is cute.

Thanks, glad there's no hard feelings. I find it very difficult "to beat around a/the bush" and tend to plow right through and let the debri fall where it may.

 

[cockroach]

I have named a few but just so it is easier to find them on the Bonsai App i use to log progress and work done. I name them after a place they remind me of or what they look like or the pot they are in.

 

[Waxonwaxoff]

I had a juniper once. He was one of my first. Now, his gone to the big bonsai exhibition in the sky. His name was Yin Yang Dwang.

 

[Djtommy]

How about calling it "futari no asoko no ke" to keep it japanese

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

A few, mostly to keep track of which one, or to associate it with an event:
Ben Oki Azalea, because I styled it with Ben Oki in 2005.
PDF JBP (or 350 JBP because I bought several that year, and this one was $350)
Seattle elm, bought it at Bonsai Northwest in Seattle in 1997.

 

[GrimLore]

At the other place I had way to many to name and a hard time even knowing what everything was sometimes, especially without foliage. I am in the process of repopulating plants here and will be using a Brother P-Touch labeler on each and every pot. I will be putting the plant/cultivar along with month and year of purchase on each label. I find using a database/tag system to be of better use if I have a lot of plants but that won't be the case anymore. As far as other names go I have only every called them Live, Broken, or Dead

Grimmy

 

[rockm]

I give my trees names associated with the kind of injury they may give me when I lift them, " @#$!gut busting oak," "effing back-breaking bald cypress" "Fred" and so on. I use the names only to make distinctions between the trees when someone is helping me. They are hardly attempts at official lyrical titles.

I have always thought giving my trees Japanese names is a bit, well--affected. The Japanese name only VERY exceptional trees. Doing the same with my ugly, unrefined trees feels like trying to make them better than they are...

 

[whfarro]

Numbers, not names.

 

[Cadillactaste]

No,can't say that I have. I'm more for stating the species...that's my Kojo No Mai...than a name.

 

[M. Frary]

I have 3 trees with names I refer to when I think of them.
A Scots and a mugo I have from Vance Wood. The scots is Vance Wood scots pine. The mugo is Vance Wood mugo.
I refer to the Jack Pine that I got from Grouper52 is the Will Hilt Jack Pine. Pretty simple really. But these trees are kind of special and they will keep those names for as long as I have them. To remember those guys.
The rest of the trees just get numbers,like American elm #1. And that is only for trees that are near to being bonsai. The rest are just stock.

 

[twisted trees]

I named this one "Scar" for obvious reasons.

 

[fredtruck]

MACH5 named my ulmus parvifolia yatsubusa Mountain with Trees, which you can see here, near the bottom of the page:

http://www.bonsainut.com/threads/the-tree-thread.10496/page-44

 

[Gene Deci]

I try to keep records of all my trees and there are a number species where I have multiples. I tried "larch 1" and ""larch 2" etc but I couldn't always remember which was which so I have named a few to help minimize the confusion.

 

[Mike MoMo]

I have named most of my trees. I connect with names easily for some reason. Even my houseplants have names. Yes it makes it difficult when one dies . I figure if I'm crazy enough to talk to a plant it should have a name.

 

[M. Frary]

Rupert's elm!
Rupert!

 

[sorce]

I got 4 Foeminas named Lisa, Angela, Pamela, and Renee.

Excellent Uros.

Talk about deadwood!

Sorce