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    Quick Book Review - NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN PLANTS FOR BONSAI

    After a couple chapters or sections in, I can say this. It's written like an encyclopedia. Each section is about a certain type of tree family and then each North American variety is discussed in brief, Some a bit longer than others, but the good part is that each is discussed with bonsai...
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    Lowes half off trees. Can all of these work as bonsai ?

    My brain must not be working tonight. The nursery I got most of my landscape trees is out of town, but has lots of older stuff, from buckets to boxes and the senior nurseryman has a long shed of bonsai experiments ! <facepalm>
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    Lowes half off trees. Can all of these work as bonsai ?

    Old nurseries with old stock, sounds like a good idea. If there were only one in my area. There is ONE that has been here a long time, and he used to have a lot of stock, but the last time I drove by, it was down sized. "Cal" wasn't a young guy a decade ago, when I was last there, so maybe...
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    Lowes half off trees. Can all of these work as bonsai ?

    My local Lowes has a good number of trees marked down 50%. I suppose it's hard to sell bare trees in the winter. Here are some that were of interest either due to interesting bark or leaves. Eastern Red Bud. Very pretty in the spring, but the leaves are generally pretty big. I'm actually...
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    You can't only eat one, can you ?

    I was going to talk to the forest service about a permit to collect wild stuff to see if I could get some California juniper. Chinese Elm grow here. I know Chinese Pistache and some Ash grow well enough here, as I have some large ones in my yard. The Elm are annoying, as they send out roots and...
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    When you "chop" how do you know the tree will grow back ?

    As the topic states, how can you insure or tell that when you chop off the trunk, that anything will grow back ? I've seen some trees at the nursery that might have a good lower trunk and interesting roots, but in a 15 gal bucket, the tree is trained to be over 6 feet tall and not a branch to be...
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    You can't only eat one, can you ?

    Which one is that ? I have been to this one: http://www.kimsbonsai.com/ Hard to find ! He's behind an other house with a little sign by the road. Lot's of trees. Most were all junipers. Our hot desert climate and cold winters limit what does well here. He also had a fair amount of 1...
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    Info on "growing out" a small tree ?

    Thanks for the link. I have more reading ahead of me.
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    Quick Book Review - NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN PLANTS FOR BONSAI

    I just ordered the book from the abs site. 30 bucks plus shipping. Perhaps I'll give it a novice's review when I finish it.
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    New book by Peter Chan

    http://www.amazon.com/Bonsai-Bible-definitive-choosing-growing/dp/1845339088/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416199945&sr=1-7&keywords=bonsai By looking at the contents and samples, how does this book stack up ? I'm new, but I have seen the author's name mentioned frequently.
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    You can't only eat one, can you ?

    You mean I need to build a basement TOO ! :) I've got an acre of land to work with. I should be OK.
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    You can't only eat one, can you ?

    Ok, it was a play on an old potato chip commercial, but it get's the basic idea. If you are starting in the hobby, and you read books, and invest in tools, you can't only have ONE tree you're hoping to grow into something nice and bonsai , can you ? It would seem that once you get materials...
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    Info on "growing out" a small tree ?

    Pictures of 1 gal shrub Old Gold Juniper. How do you display them as thumb nails ? The 4th shot is the one that shows the trunks, but I was seeing how flexible they were and spread them apart somewhat. If you refer to the top picture, everything that extends passed...
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    Info on "growing out" a small tree ?

    I'm in the "high desert" of southern California. It will get below freezing a number of times during the winter. It's in the 60s during the day now. It may get near freezing at night soon. I'll take a picture or two tomorrow and post them.
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    Info on "growing out" a small tree ?

    By the way, what about soil composition ? More garden like or more fast drain bonsai soil like ?
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