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Today, nipped out the center buds. Later in the spring I’ll partial defoliate and prune. This one will actually respond with more growth.

Made some repairs on my old repotting bench. Should be good for another 10 years.

I’m very interested in the number of trees everyone is buying per year. After a few years of having a proper yard I am out of space, so...

I went to the bonsai society of the Carolina’s February meeting today. We had a repotting demonstration and forest building workshop...

THE 2024 GREAT POT GIVE-AWAY I use this to bump the thread. Simply make a post to enter. Those that have posted you are already in...

Awesome pots! Thanks for doing a giveaway!

Nice trees that you can't afford, evidently.

Julian Adams has been the best source for copper bonsai wire; he has since past it on to another who is referred to in Adams website. Go...

I made a piece for an old abandoned homestead penjing I have been wanting to do. This is usually all that is left of old homesites that...

I'm curious how a tree "looks" like a recent Japanese import vs one that went through quarantine??

I don't think there are large numbers of illegally imported bonsai trees from Japan. For myself I don't worry about it to be honest.

I'm one of the very few that use rootpouch to grow out trees here, and from the growth I get I don't see the need to grow in the ground...

I was talking about the 5 gallons from Lowe’s/HD, but after some googling, I have no idea where I got this info from haha. Just...

Thanks for posting! I’ve always thought 1 gallon pots didn’t past the eye test. I just learned that a 5 gallon bucket is actually 7ish...

I believe that the only thing that exceeds the level of volume exaggeration of a nursery pot is the Texas ten gallon hat.