It's an addiction...no doubt about it.

[Cadillactaste]

Thank goodness....most all these are smaller trees. But it clearly is an addiction. Warning to the new folk starting. You blink and wonder what happened. Lol you say you are done adding treea...and somehow you have ones land on your bench after that statement. Lol

Compiled list of my collection.

1 Wisteria
2 Virginia Creeper
3 White chojubai
4 Boston Ivy
5 Bald cypress
6 Satsuki azalea
7 Neagari satsuki azalea
8 Forsythia
9 Chinese quince
10 Dwarf jasmine
11 Winged elm
12 Pyracantha
13 Ginkgo
14 Nippon daisy
15 Asian jasmine
16 Drake elm
17 Goji berry
18Trident clump
19 Hawthorn
20 Crabapple
21 Tamarix
22 Ryusen maple
23 Toyo Nishiki quince
24 Thuja planting
25 black pine *in coming
26 flying dragon *ships in spring
27 Caitlin Elm
28 bougainvillea
29 powderpuff
30 too little ficus
31 tigerbark ficus
32 olive
33 kumquat

*Ground growing one amethyst falls wisteria.

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

150 and counting.
You could have warned me sooner!

 

[Carol 83]

There's always room for just one more....

 

[Cadillactaste]

There's always room for just one more....

I am still considering an Osteomeles. don't tell a sole!

 

[sorce]

don't tell a sole

"Talk to the shoe, cuz the face ain't listening!"

33 made 23 anyway!

Sorce

 

[Cadillactaste]

"Talk to the shoe, cuz the face ain't listening!"

33 made 23 anyway!

Sorce

There is this little thing called lack of space that would apply to the last part of your comment. Lol

 

[namnhi]

This list looks like someone just started the hobby . You need more... so if one dies you will not be down too long.

 

[Cadillactaste]

This list looks like someone just started the hobby . You need more... so if one dies you will not be down too long.

Right!?! My husband looks at me cross-eyed when I tell him I've restrained and kept my collection manageable.

 

[vp999]

My name is Darlene...and I have a problem.....

 

[misfit11]

You're not alone, Darlene. There's got to be some kind of support group for us addicts, B.A. (Bonsai-aholics Anonymous) or something.

It's weird though, while I've never truly recovered from the addiction, there are times when I'm not as compelled to it. It goes in waves for me.

I started this thread way back when about my obsession with little trees.

The Bonsai Obsession

I was having a hard time sleeping last night and as I often do, I found myself thinking about bonsai. Geez! What is wrong with me? It can't possibly be normal to lose sleep thinking about miniature trees, could it? Anyway, it got me thinking about how addicting this hobby can become. I've...

www.bonsainut.com

Cory

 

[vp999]

Let me make my list later when I have some time so I can be in the intervention session with you guys lol.

 

[LittleDingus]

If you have one tree and add another, you've doubled your inventory. If you have 100 trees and add another...that's 1% more trees...hardly noticable. The more you have...the less commitment adding "one more" is

 

[Cadillactaste]

If you have one tree and add another, you've doubled your inventory. If you have 100 trees and add another...that's 1% more trees...hardly noticable. The more you have...the less commitment adding "one more" is

Unless the species is an odd ball from the norm. No way I will hide this Flying Dragon. But alas, I don't have 100 +1 . So maybe you are onto something.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Though...honestly. I thought I was way over 30. So I was actually satisfied with that number.

 

[just.wing.it]

I hover around 30....but I like to kill my trees so...

 

[Cadillactaste]

I hover around 30....but I like to kill my trees so...

I really try not to do that.

I sort of smitten with this small 10 inch bald cypress in an Erin pot. I really don't push the envelope so to speak...when it comes to repots. I'm by the book. Sure some get away with trees further along. I'm sure I could. Just can't do it though.

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

150 and counting.
You could have warned me sooner!

In all honesty, just a hand full can be considered bonsai. The rest is bonsai-to-be. If seedlings count, I'm well beyond 300.
6 more puppy trees on their way. 2 prunus spinosa delayed by almost 40 weeks.
Preparing the dig of two hawthorns.

But hey, it keeps me off the streets!

@Cadillactaste watch out with those flying dragons! Their needles break off and you might find them back a couple years later.. When they come back out. They root pretty easily from cuttings though, tough as nails!

 

[ShadyStump]

Thank goodness....most all these are smaller trees. But it clearly is an addiction. Warning to the new folk starting. You blink and wonder what happened. Lol you say you are done adding treea...and somehow you have ones land on your bench after that statement. Lol

Compiled list of my collection.

1 Wisteria
2 Virginia Creeper
3 White chojubai
4 Boston Ivy
5 Bald cypress
6 Satsuki azalea
7 Neagari satsuki azalea
8 Forsythia
9 Chinese quince
10 Dwarf jasmine
11 Winged elm
12 Pyracantha
13 Ginkgo
14 Nippon daisy
15 Asian jasmine
16 Drake elm
17 Goji berry
18Trident clump
19 Hawthorn
20 Crabapple
21 Tamarix
22 Ryusen maple
23 Toyo Nishiki quince
24 Thuja planting
25 black pine *in coming
26 flying dragon *ships in spring
27 Caitlin Elm
28 bougainvillea
29 powderpuff
30 too little ficus
31 tigerbark ficus
32 olive
33 kumquat

*Ground growing one amethyst falls wisteria.

I was just skimming out of order and got confused. I thought for second the numbers were how many of each you had!
But nah, 33 trees ain't nothin'. Unless you have a small yard, then it fills up quick.

 

[Cadillactaste]

I was just skimming out of order and got confused. I thought for second the numbers were how many of each you had!
But nah, 33 trees ain't nothin'. Unless you have a small yard, then it fills up quick.

My entire lawn is landscaped. None of my bonsai really sit out in it. But more on the patio, and deck areas.

A bit of my history. My mom's husband had our lawn a mess. To the point it was a good harassment getting on and off the school bus. I need clean lines...and nothing out of place in my landscape or I get itchy. I also don't like my benches cluttered. That also may help keep my collection where it is around for number count.

 

[ShadyStump]

I'm having the problem of determining how many I have because I have to determine whether or not it's MY BONSAI or MY WIFE'S FRUIT TREE first. Lots of cuttings filling the windows right now, and any that take that she doesn't take, I'm putting in a pot.