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    Native Species Only

    Every body overlooks alder. I don't know why.
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    Birch Bonsai

    Widen your search a little more. Try an alder instead.
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    Newbie wanting to use osmocote +

    After a ten year run of having trees ravaged (by voles) in wither storage, when using organic fertilizers. I switched over to osmocote. I will grant it does not work as well as organics do, but you have to have a live tree before that distinction amounts to a piss-hole in the snow. If your...
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    Where to find material?

    As RKatzin notes learn how to forage. Once you train your eye, you'll see the stuph you seek everywhere. It was true for finding arrow-heads 60 years ago, its true now for bonsai-able material.
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    Where to find material?

    Common to a goodly amount of ME the northern 1/4 of NH, and top half of VT are larch. it likes wet places to grow. Look in ditches, and ask if you can collect some of the multitude that have been pruned by road crews. Free. The last time I was in the area, the only stipulation from the property...
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    first bonsai

    Older Ace hardware stores often have coated copper wire on bulk spools in electrical department. Close examination should let you select the diameter you want. Stripping off insulation is not that hard.
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    Where to find material?

    Free-Cycle or simply asking when you see a landscape remodel. If you take away and find value in what they would have to pay to take to landfill, a good time was had by all.
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    Would You Buy This Chinese Elm

    Look among their back bench. Or trash bin.
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    Donald Trump.

    The most recently cloned Trumpian meme on face-book is the Florida family with two black face dummies lynched on their front yard with a trump yard sign underfoot. Gee I wonder if it'll be as fun when somebody torches their house.
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    I posted this where nobody thought it was funny.

    So much for sharing...
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    Eastern Larch, American Larch or Tamarack (Larix laricina)

    Larch suitable for your zone, is fun project and does the stuff we want (like back-budding). Buy three or five of them even if all they are, are slips.
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    Working on another rock pot:)

    I saw the other day some ammonite fossils, nicknamed "Birdbaths" that aught to have some real potential as stone bonsai pots.
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    Dwarf Rhodie

    Thats not R fastigiatum. Now thats a dwarf azalea.
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    Tea or cake?

    With sweet trees like Japanese maples I stopped 15+ years back using organic fertilizer, it just encouraged mice-voles-chipmunks to girdle my trees.
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    Chinese Hackberry

    Again I am describing landscape sized trees and not bonsai.
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