Recent content by subnet_rx

Loved my visit to Bonsai by the Monestary. The location and the grounds really gave me a different feel than most bonsai places that I have visited.

Thanks for all the replies. I feel like the last two might have gotten a bad rap because of the photos that I took. You can't really see it in the photos, but these have much larger trunks than the first one. So here's a new angle for both of them. Do these change any opinions?

I've had some "Morris Midget" boxwoods growing for a few years now and have decided that I need to start deciding what to do with them. I originally got them to do some live oak style trees. Here's 3 that I have chosen to start work on. Which do you think have the most potential?

You should be able to buy it here: http://www.absbonsai.org/store/native-north-american-plants-bonsai

Thanks, I think my other question has to do with when to prune. Mine just had a flush of new growth, but they do this 2 or 3 times per year. I'm never sure when to start cutting back since in my climate they don't seem to go dormant at the times when other trees are.

I have several Morris Midget boxwoods that I am trying to train in this style. Do you prune branches back to one, two pairs of leaves? What time of year do you do it? Guide wires for training? Just like to know more about your process.

Humans are 100x more refined and manicured today as well, doesn't really mean we are better, just different. :cool:

If this thread is correct, I would wonder why we have become so dependent on wire. Was wire available in the early days of bonsai in Japan and China? Will wire be readily available in the future when metal resources dwindle? It just makes me wonder where the art has come from and where it...

This is what I do as well. I can only find time to water once a day, so my mixes have to hold water in 100 degree heat in July. That's the tough thing about Mississippi, you have to create a mix that will survive 100 degree dry summers, and raining every day sometimes for two weeks winters. A...

No, I have went out there a couple of times and it has been closed. I connected with MSGCBS at a garden show last weekend. They told me Turface and Haydite, but I am not sure where I could get Haydite either, but I'm going to Day of Bonsai in Mobile in a couple of weeks and I'm going to talk...

About 2:30 to Sweetwater, not something I would want to have to do every year. There are other farm supply stores in the surrounding area, so I'm going to make some calls.

I'd love to hear your findings if you do try. I dug up a couple last year and the root systems were terrible. I wasn't going to try them for bonsai, I just wanted to move them from their current spot to another spot in the yard. They didn't even last a month. They apparently grow in clumps...

No Dry Stall, only Stall Dry (powder from diatomaceous earth), only big bags of chicken grit was oyster shell, decomposed granite was in 5lb bags at $8.99 a bag. They are hoping to get in some pigeon grit in a 50lb. bag this week that I want to take a look at (still double the price of...

Seems like lots more trees on the grounds than when I went there in December a couple of years ago (although I was still overwhelmed with the greenhouses full of trees). Going right before Rendezvous must be a great time to go.

I'm going to take my list to the farm supply store tomorrow morning. I'll try to post my findings. I also might go to a nursery to see what they can order if anything.