Pick 5 Scenario!

Think of this scenario however you want:

You get banished to an island with any type of climate you want. A massive hurricane is coming for you and you have to evacuate. You're moving to a townhouse and have to drastically reduce your collection.

The main part I'm interested in is: You only have room for 5 trees and 5 books. What are you going to bring??? You can still have all your tools, a lifetime supply of wire, cut paste, soil etc. But what 5 trees and books, and only 5, are you gonna save?

Most important question is, will I have Wi-Fi ?

Seriously, I'd bring my the trees I've invested most time in. Those are my two of my quinces, a couple of JBPs, and a trident maple.

5 smallest best growing trees,
And the first 5 books of Anne Rice's Vampire series.

Sorce

Books (in no particular order)

1. Michael Hagedorn's Post Dated
2. Saburo Kato's Forest, Rock Planting, and Ezo Spruce Bonsai
3. Thoreau's Walden
4. Whitman's Leaves of Grass
5. The latest kokufu book

Bonsai (in no particular order, numbers corresponding to pic numbers)

1. New RMJ my dad and I purchased from Randy Knight
2. Japanese Larch
3. My little Ezo spruce
4. Hollow trunk Satsuki
5. Japanese Maple clump

35 year old Tamarind [ has flaking bark ]
35 year old Gmelina
65 year old Fukien tea
9 year old Fustic
1 of the 20 year old + JBP from seed.

Books - my note books
My big book on the 3 Lord of the Rings

Good Day
Anthony

1. My first tree, a salici-nerifo ficus named Cleatus..now residing in a hand signed tokoname; his reward for surviving me.
2. Pondy that's older than damn-it
3. Red Japanese maple of unknown variety i bought at big box 15+ years ago, looks like 7 shades o' shit but it's l-i-v-i-n..pronounced dead on multiple occassions but evidently it never signed a DNR because it just.won't.die. (named him ahnohld)
4&5. The chojubai horde....

books:
I'm nearly illiterate, so I'll bring pictographic porn!!!!hahaha it's huge in asia so bring your argument(s)!

Isn't a Forest planting kind of a cheat on this? I could bring a forest with 100 tridents planted together, then use my tools to separate them and make individuals!

Umm.. Trees-
JMs 1, 2 & 3 (I am very I creative when naming my trees)
Trident forest a friend gave me about two years ago
Shimpaku another friend gave me very recently..

This is a combination of trees I would not want to let go of right now and one I think has great potential and really want to do work on this Spring.

Books- I'd have to pic some I have not read yet. Who wants to be stuck with 5 books they have already read?? Booorrrriiinnnggg... LOL

I am trying my hand a writing a novel now, so I spend my "reading time" WRITING these days. We will see how it comes out (or if I finish it.. Just for fun of course, I don't have a contract with a publisher or anything.)

This trident maple, still in basket but the potential is high and I think if given the opportunity to work on it daily would benefit the tree greatly

The double trunk pyracantha. Again while still young in its training, the potential is massive. the squirrels this year added a patch of shari, I'm not happy about it.

This tall juniper in the literati style is also young in its training as has a nice future. It has rewarded me with some lush growth this year after almost losing it to spider mite.

This trident maple. I have earned two thousand dollars in prize money with this tree and it holds a special place in my hear because I have been able to capture my growth over a 14 year period with it.

This California juniper, Tripper, is a fine tree and this one also has had tremendous growth over the last three years since squirrels devastated it and killed the left side of the tree. It will nearly be back to this point this winter.


Books, books suck. Doing work makes a person better. Practise practise and more practise. A person going to Japan does not learn his trade so much by instruction from the master, but by the 10 hour work days six days a week on nothing but working on bonsai. Walter Pall is a perfect example of this. He has no Japanese education but, but he has money, time, and willing to work long hours on making trees better daily. If most of us here did bonsai like we do for 40 years we would never catch up to what Walter has done in 6 months.

Keep that in mind when looking at some of the trees in this thread. There are a lot of trees here at this forum that look pretty damn good for the little time we spend on them. Think what could happen if some of us were retired....

Five books:
1)Bible
2)Koreshoff's book just for a reference of sorts...of what I can rebuild using some of the techniques discussed.
3) My book on "humor and wit" published in the late 1800's...very amusing what ones found humorous back then.
4) a journal to write in;but also has key notes on the trees I would be taking with me.
5) John Naka's "Japanese proverbs" Even Monkeys fall from trees...a lot of bonsai related wisdom and humor found in the pages (I'm a book person so limited to five smarts a bit )

Trees:
My first real bonsai...a bougainvillea it would've been a shame what with the sentimental value to leave it behind* purchased as a reminder of something I hold dear to my heart...of memories past and a promise of accomplishing our goal for it.



Bougainvillea cascade...for its quirkiness. And...my love of Bougies.



Satsuki azalea...



My thuja clump/raft...(won't really know until I repot it. Website listed as both)



Wisteria...

Moving to a townhouse? Sweet evacuation plan. I want to be with you when the zombie apocalypse happens.

M. Frary said:

Moving to a townhouse? Sweet evacuation plan. I want to be with you when the zombie apocalypse happens.

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Oh no! Not a Town House when the Zombies hit. That bright white streak of light you see will not be lightning, it will not be northern lights, or aliens spacecraft, it will be me running to Canada!

Sorce

Don't think there will be Canadian zombies? Aye?

M. Frary said:

Don't think there will be Canadian zombies? Aye?

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Constant snow will make tracking danger easy. Caribou lunch all day.
Dog sleds. Igloos.

And Hell, if there are Canadian Zombies, they will probably be nice anyway!

Sorce

Anthony, picking just 5 trees would be hard. Tell you what, I'll trade my book alotment for a couple shohin! Deal?

My trees to take along:



My JBP I've been working on refinement for the past 3 years



My JBP I've been developing for 4 years.



My JWP after its first styling



My juniper.

And now for the shohin:



My shohin Zelkova



Shohin JRP

Adair M said:

Shohin JRP

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Highly wicked.

Sorce

Trees: Shimpaku, Itoigawa, JBP, Ume, Japanese Maple:

Books: Any 3 Kokufu albums, Tofukuji's pottery book, and this pottery book:

Need an address to send that lifetime supply of wire?