How many species do you have?!?!

[jonathanvperth]

I only have maybe 10 trees in bonsai pots. A ponderosa, a juniper, several azalea, and a JBP

I have at least 48 species as "sticks in pots" - various stages of growing out in plastic pots, Anderson flats, at least 30 are in Anderson flats, and other growing out containers. So not "really" bonsai. I think the total is about 46, at least that is what I can remember.

Juniper Itoigawa, Kiushu, & generic Shimpaku
Juniper horizontalis - 2 varieties
Picea glauca densata (black hills spruce), Picea orientalis - Oriental spruce, Picea omrika - Serbian spruce,
Picea pungens - Colorado blue spruce - 3 named cultivars,
Picea engelmannii - 'Bushes' Lace' weeping engelmann spruce.
Pinus banksiana - Jack Pine- 2 named varieties grafted, & several seedlings.
Pinus bungeana - Chinese lacebark pines - several seedlings.
Pinus parviflora - Japanese white pine - 3 grafted named varieties and 2 seedlings.
Pinus ponderosa - have 3 from Andy Smith
Pinus thunbergii - 4 different cork bark pine varieties
Pinus rigida - Pitch pine - seedlings.
Pinus lambertina = Sugar pine - seed, not germinated yet.
Pinus strobus - a few seedlings for eventual grafting understock
Pinus nigra - 5 year old seedlings for eventual grafting understock.
Taxus florida - Florida yew, a rare species of Taxus, but basically looks like & grows like Taxus baccata.
Tsuga canadensis - 2 varieties
Chamaecyparis obtusa - Hinoki - 4 different cultivars.
Thuja occidentalis - 2 named from nursery material, one collected, and several seedlings.
Azalea - 8 or 9 varieties, 5 different named Satsuki types, and a couple no name types, and one deciduous type
Vaccinium corymbosum - highbush blueberries - 5 or so named varieties, only a couple in bonsai pots.
Amelanchier grandiflora - Serviceberry
Malus - named weeping crab - I did the grafting to create this one.
Chaenomeles - 4 varieties flowering quince
Celastrus sp. - Bittersweet vine - don't know which species, asian or native north american
Parthenocissus virginiana - Virginia Creeper Vine
Wisteria macrostachya - Kentucky wisteria - one of the two native species
Chionanthus virginicus - American Fringe Tree - have one male, one female.
Diospyros virginiana - American persimmon - have a couple grafted females, and a few dozen seedlings.
Acer tartaricum - Amur maple,
Acer rubrum? sacharum? - it is either sugar maple or red maple, small clump from farm.
Acer species not determined - a volunteer weed seedling in a pot of a tree from North Carolina - it has developed striped bark. now in its 5th year.
Ulmus rubra - slippery elm or red elm
Ulmus thomasii - northern cedar elm, or also called rock elm - recently collected, not positive on the ID yet.
Ulmus pumila - Siberian elm
U;mus parvifolia - Chinese elm, 2 varieties.
Carpinus caroliniana - hornbeam
Carpinus corieana
Ostrya virginiana - hop flowered hornbeam.
Ginkgo
Metasequoia
Ficus collected in Chiapas, Mexico,
Eugenia sp
Annona cherimoya
Ochna integrifolia - dropped its leaves, not 100% sure its still alive, they are deciduous, but only for brief periods.
Ficus pumila
Bursera fagaroides
Lindera benzonin

It’s shocking anyone can remember that many trees! Tip of the hat to you sir. Not to mention your bitterly cold winters

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

It’s shocking anyone can remember that many trees! Tip of the hat to you sir. Not to mention your bitterly cold winters

Thanks, if you read through the list, vast majority are fully winter hardy in zone 5 or 6, only a handful have to go into the unheated well house I have. And even fewer are tropicals

 

[shinmai]

Doing this from memory, I'll probably miss one or two, but here goes....a buttload of azaleas and rhododendrons, Japanese flowering quince, lilac, magnolia stellata, contorted hazel, pearl bush, dwarf smoke bush, ninebark, crabapple, Korean spicebush, Japanese flowering apricot, stephanandra incisa, ficus, natal plum, Brazilian rain tree, pyracantha, eridium, hibiscus siriaca, lavender starflower, and caryopteris

 

[amcoffeegirl]

I only have maybe 10 trees in bonsai pots. A ponderosa, a juniper, several azalea, and a JBP

I have at least 48 species as "sticks in pots" - various stages of growing out in plastic pots, Anderson flats, at least 30 are in Anderson flats, and other growing out containers. So not "really" bonsai. I think the total is about 46, at least that is what I can remember.

Juniper Itoigawa, Kiushu, & generic Shimpaku
Juniper horizontalis - 2 varieties
Picea glauca densata (black hills spruce), Picea orientalis - Oriental spruce, Picea omrika - Serbian spruce,
Picea pungens - Colorado blue spruce - 3 named cultivars,
Picea engelmannii - 'Bushes' Lace' weeping engelmann spruce.
Pinus banksiana - Jack Pine- 2 named varieties grafted, & several seedlings.
Pinus bungeana - Chinese lacebark pines - several seedlings.
Pinus parviflora - Japanese white pine - 3 grafted named varieties and 2 seedlings.
Pinus ponderosa - have 3 from Andy Smith
Pinus thunbergii - 4 different cork bark pine varieties
Pinus rigida - Pitch pine - seedlings.
Pinus lambertina = Sugar pine - seed, not germinated yet.
Pinus strobus - a few seedlings for eventual grafting understock
Pinus nigra - 5 year old seedlings for eventual grafting understock.
Taxus florida - Florida yew, a rare species of Taxus, but basically looks like & grows like Taxus baccata.
Tsuga canadensis - 2 varieties
Chamaecyparis obtusa - Hinoki - 4 different cultivars.
Thuja occidentalis - 2 named from nursery material, one collected, and several seedlings.
Azalea - 8 or 9 varieties, 5 different named Satsuki types, and a couple no name types, and one deciduous type
Vaccinium corymbosum - highbush blueberries - 5 or so named varieties, only a couple in bonsai pots.
Amelanchier grandiflora - Serviceberry
Malus - named weeping crab - I did the grafting to create this one.
Chaenomeles - 4 varieties flowering quince
Celastrus sp. - Bittersweet vine - don't know which species, asian or native north american
Parthenocissus virginiana - Virginia Creeper Vine
Wisteria macrostachya - Kentucky wisteria - one of the two native species
Chionanthus virginicus - American Fringe Tree - have one male, one female.
Diospyros virginiana - American persimmon - have a couple grafted females, and a few dozen seedlings.
Acer tartaricum - Amur maple,
Acer rubrum? sacharum? - it is either sugar maple or red maple, small clump from farm.
Acer species not determined - a volunteer weed seedling in a pot of a tree from North Carolina - it has developed striped bark. now in its 5th year.
Ulmus rubra - slippery elm or red elm
Ulmus thomasii - northern cedar elm, or also called rock elm - recently collected, not positive on the ID yet.
Ulmus pumila - Siberian elm
U;mus parvifolia - Chinese elm, 2 varieties.
Carpinus caroliniana - hornbeam
Carpinus corieana
Ostrya virginiana - hop flowered hornbeam.
Ginkgo
Metasequoia
Ficus collected in Chiapas, Mexico,
Eugenia sp
Annona cherimoya
Ochna integrifolia - dropped its leaves, not 100% sure its still alive, they are deciduous, but only for brief periods.
Ficus pumila
Bursera fagaroides
Lindera benzonin

Would love to see your pumila and crab!

 

[amcoffeegirl]

I have
Ficus
Premna
Eugenia
Schefflera and
Chaenomeles speciosa


That’s the list!

 

[Underdog]

I've not counted them as it could be seen as an obsession. Over 100 plants easy counting everything. Well over 50 trees and shrubs in containers. Couple dozen or more in bonsai pots. Some maybe shouldn't be but...
I just this winter started a card index file on each tree, like a recipe box, to jot down notes on each quickly. Lists when and where I got it and what I've done, when I did it, soil mix ect... Quick and easy to grab and write a note with dirty fingers. I do take lots of dated pics and keep a file on each downloaded periodically.
Just don't want to really count them all, and not because I'm lazy. LOL

 

[StoneCloud]

38 total trees, last I counted....of the following 17 species:

- Abutilon
- Azalea
- Bald Cypress
- Burning Bush
- Button Bush
- Chinese Holly
- Crape Myrtle, pygmy
- Ficus, Tiger Bark
- Ficus, Willow Leaf
- Fukien Tea
- Japanese Holly
- P. Afra
- Rosemary
- Schefflera
- Shore Juniper
- Sweetgum
- Yaupon Holly

Although as most of us will experience, this list will grow this season!

 

[amcoffeegirl]

38 total trees, last I counted....of the following 17 species:

- Abutilon
- Azalea
- Bald Cypress
- Burning Bush
- Button Bush
- Chinese Holly
- Crape Myrtle, pygmy
- Ficus, Tiger Bark
- Ficus, Willow Leaf
- Fukien Tea
- Japanese Holly
- P. Afra
- Rosemary
- Schefflera
- Shore Juniper
- Sweetgum
- Yaupon Holly

Although as most of us will experience, this list will grow this season!

I forgot about my p. Afra - it’s just a cutting

 

[StoneCloud]

I forgot about my p. Afra - it’s just a cutting

So is mine. Lol. But it finally has 2 trunks Haha!

 

[chicago1980]

I'm a juniper guy... A one gnarly Dough Fir

 

[dprm]

Ulmus parvifolia "seiju"
Juniperus sinensis "itoigawa"
Quercus suber x2
Quercus ilex x2
Crataegus sp.
Olea europaea var. sylvestris
Taxus baccata x2
Prunus spinosa

Wishlist-
More Quercus suber, Q. ilex, P. spinosa, T. baccata, J. sinensis "itoigawa";
Quercus robur
Pyrus pyraster
Salvia rosmarinus
Ulmus parvifolia "suberosa"

Best regards,
Diogo

 

[Haines' Trees]

I don’t have a list on hand but as for what I can think of off the top of my head:
Japanese White Pine
Japanese Black Pine
Chinese Juniper
Rocky Mountain Juniper
Hinoki Cypress
Scots Pine
Mugo Pine
Japanese Yew
White Oak
Black Oak
Red Oak
Buckthorn (they’re great to learn on, okay?)
Chinese Elm
Japanese Wisteria
Japanese Maple (various cultivars)
American Larch
Japanese Larch
Japanese Flowering Cherry
Winter Flowering Cherry (first year seedlings)
Tibetan Cherry (also first year)
Dawn Redwood
Amur Maple
American Beech

That’s 23 that I’ve collected in just short of 4 years enjoying this hobby! If I include all the other species I’ve killed and no longer have the count would probably be twice as high

 

[Rivian]

I get very annoyed with species when they are boring. Then they go on the chopping block. Always. Otherwise I would resent the plant for offering me nothing for my work, essentialy I become a person who has no more affinity for the plant than a random person who doesnt give a damn about plants. Im not a person who categorically likes bonsai. I killed an oak prebonsai last week that I got in a package with oriental hornbeam which is what i really wanted. I gave the oak a chance, cut it to shape and gave it a couple months. There was nothing interesting about this species (probably quercus robur). No saving grace in my book.
I have a few dozen species that I in a matter of fact way believe have potential, they havent proven me wrong yet.
I believe if youre doing it right, there is a spark. Hence my signature. But none of my plants can quite provide that yet. I can barely describe it because I havent felt it much in the last 10 years. There may be separate positive feelings from things like flowers, smell etc. Or its parts of the same thing.
One of the things that hooked me at a young age was pictures of wisteria bonsai in flower.
Some recent things I liked are the flowers on my rhododendron izumi no mai, which reminds me of sugary candy (i like the asthetic, im not a glutton). Might even put a glass of color matching candy next to it some day, as decoration.
Also the new leaves on my cercidiphyllum japonicum, autumn colors of beni chidori JM and deshojo and trident. One could say I had bitter love with JM Bi-Hoo which is very beautiful but got eaten by pseudomonas and Im not willing to spray what it would need.
I should probably visit a bonsai show to better understand what i like. Probably some others should too.

 

[Paradox]

Too many

 

[Deleted member 32750]

I have:
A Chinese elm mallsai (my first tree)
3 Japanese black pine
A ton of Japanese black pine seedlings
A Satsuki azalea chinzan
2 itoigawa junipers cuttings
6 Japanese white pine saplin
An ugly field grown trident that I’m just using for layers at this point
2 rare cork bark tridents
2 Japanese red maples
1 unknown cultivar Japanese maple
1 unknown cultivar prunus mume

and I think that’s all of them

 

[Gustavo Martins]

13 species at the moment. Not all are bonsai yet. Some are just test trees to see if they do well in my climate. I think I will reduce this number in the future as I only plan to have what grows without major issues in my climate/care.

 

[PaulH]

California juniper
Sierra juniper
Utah juniper
prostrata juniper
kishu shimpaku
itoigawa shimpaku
needle juniper
foemina juniper
Juniperus virginiana
Rocky mountain juniper

Coast redwood

Thuja occidentalis

Japanese black pine
Austrian black pine
Scots pine
lodgepole pine
white bark pine

deodar cedar
atlas cedar
Lebanon cedar

Pigmy cypress

coast live oak
interior live oak
southern live oak
Valley oak
Oregon oak
Portuguese oak
cork oak
Israeli oak
Holly oak

Mission olive

Japanese boxwood

silverberry

Pyracantha

Brazilian pepper

California styrax

California buckeye

Korean hornbeam
European hornbeam

liquidambar styraciflua

Trident maples
Japanese maples
kiyohime
kotohime
shishigashira
Sharp's pygmy
Kandy Kitchen
sango kaku
mikawa yatsubusa
butterfly
First ghost
peaches and cream
Orido nishiki
seigen
regular green palmatums

cork bark chinese elm
Catlin elm
Seiju elm

Wisteria
dwarf wisteria

Texas privet
Chinese privet

Mission fig

Loropetalum

Toyon

Bradford pear

Ume

Wild plum

Flowering quince

sagebrush

twisted pomegranate
Flowering pomegranate
Dwarf pomegranate

Crape myrtle
dwarf crape myrtle

Premna (musk maple)

 

[PA_Penjing]

Ulmus parvifolia

working on selling everything that isn't chinese elm.
list includes

acer palmatum
acer buegeranium
pinus banksiana
picea englemanni
Juniperus chinesis sargenti

probably some typos but everyone knows what I said

 

[jaco94]

I think it's better to spend more time appreciating a small collection than to be constantly waiting for the next tree to buy, it's a never-ending race with a lot of frustration because we will always find something to excite our desires.

In my opinion " Less is more ", that's why i have recently sold big part of my trees .

Since i have fewer trees , i look at them more ...
Strangely, it is the trees that I liked the least at the beginning that are now my favorites:
Ginkgo biloba , i will try to keep 3 or 4 of them .

 

[Cadillactaste]

I think it's better to spend more time appreciating a small collection than to be constantly waiting for the next tree to buy, it's a never-ending race with a lot of frustration because we will always find something to excite our desires.

In my opinion " Less is more ", that's why i have recently sold big part of my trees .

Since i have fewer trees , i look at them more ...
Strangely, it is the trees that I liked the least at the beginning that are now my favorites:
Ginkgo biloba , i will try to keep 3 or 4 of them .

I've a long list of cultivars...but...Honestly, I feel content with the 33 trees I do own. I turn 50 this year...and I have no must have tree on my want list...to make me hunt/search to find it. My husband laughs and says...doesn't mean I won't find one later and buy it. lol...But...I can say...IF...I add another one day. It most likely will be neagari. They tempt me more than any other style for the hobby.