Recent content by jeff boler

I was finally able to compress these files for upload... I'm pretty sure that the tree is an elm of some sort, though that is the only stand of elms that I have encountered... and I have been looking... I wet back and grabbed two more elms, for a total of three... They are not all the most...

I wish that I could show yall some more pictures of this tree and some others I have collected, but the website limits uploads to 19kbs for .pdf files... I have never seen a .pdf file that small...

well, it has buds all over it now and it looks like it's going to be a Birch of some sort... Hard to work with from what I've read, or at least different from most deciduous trees. Does anyone have any suggestions regarding this tree??? I agree with a previous reply that it has a great base and...

I think it'll live, though I am new to bonsai, my mother and I have always had green thumbs, I managed to save some good surface roots as you can see in the picture, but the tap root was lost... The tree will be hanging out in South Mississippi, as I won't have the means to take care of it while...

Please find the attached .pdf file. These are pictures taken on 16 Jan 2011, when I collected this tree while roaming around in the brush near my drilling rig... The tree was growing in a low area, probably a dried creek-bed. the soil was predominately sand and gravel, which I also collected...