Nursery Stock Thread. For fun. and I just like pictures...

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Humor is all you can have in the face of blatant sarcasm. I see you have a million or so messages and likes. Any nursery trees in there that have truly humble beginnings? in all seriousness id love to see em if you've got em. Your profile pic alone speaks of years of quality and experience. Either way, thanks for the words of encouragement. I enjoy this art.

This is really the only one that I know of from straight nursery material. Mostly I work from excellent bonsai grown material or California juniper from the desert.

https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/trident-maples-a-chronical.3149/
 

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This is really the only one that I know of from straight nursery material. Mostly I work from excellent bonsai grown material or California juniper from the desert.

https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/trident-maples-a-chronical.3149/
This is really the only one that I know of from straight nursery material. Mostly I work from excellent bonsai grown material or California juniper from the desert.

https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/trident-maples-a-chronical.3149/
That’s what I’m saying right there! Thank you! Beautiful tree and documentation. one of these days when my confidence is high enough that I feel like I won’t butcher top notch bonsai material, I’ll stop with the nursery stock. But until then I’m inspired by excellence through humble beginnings as most of my trees have started as just that. (Not excellent just yet though)
 

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Acer palmatum "crispii" purchased in june 2016 for 9.99€
palm.jpg


two airlayers that same year
summer.jpg


One year later, july 2017
jul14.jpg


wired but still in progress....;)

Greetings from Spain
 

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That is a Rocky Mountain Juniper and you got it at a nursery? Cool. You don't see many native junipers at nurseries (save collected trees at a bonsai nursery, which are astronomical). Guess I need to go to Albuquerque some time.
Actuallly there are a few cultivars of Rocky Mountain Juniper on the market. The are sold with the common names so you seldom notice that Juniperus Scopolorum, the botanical name of the species, is not directly pointed out depending on vendor source.
 

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I'll toss in a few of mine.
2/2016 after cleaning out a bunch of dead stuff
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2/2017 after repot
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9/2017
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3/2016 Dwarf Rhodi Ramapo was near death,
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4/2017
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9/2017
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One more for now
White Cascade Azalea 3/2016
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4/2017
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11/2017
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I would like to toss this out as well...sometimes with wet behind the ears vision...we sometimes end up with landscape material. I don't see that as a loss...but a maturity.

Two arrows...left is a lilac,to the right a hemlock given to me by a landscape company which suffered wind damage at the top. I could have taken it somewhere...but it was a wide tree...and I chose to landscape over better material to work with.

I do not see them as failures...but success to my growing in the hobby. I have also given material away for landscape purposes to friends.
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Seeing if I can a good thread going showing before and after results of Nursery stock trees. If a thread like this already exists, than I can't seem to find it. Im about 7 yrs in and though I've dug several yamadori at this point, much of my collection comes from nursery stock. For myself and so many other newbies, its the best way to practice methods, styling, aggressive work vs. patience, etc. I also love the challenge nursery stock presents.

Would love if every tree posted had a before shot in its original state and the price you paid, though I understand that can't always happen!! Thanks and Tree on!!

I'll start. Here is a RMJ I bought from a local nursery for $21. styled it as a formal upright in spring 2017 and planted it on a rock slab today, spring 2018.
Congrats! You did an excellent job :)
 

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Nursery material has for many years been pilloried by many in the bonsai trade as being inferior. It is not, it is seldom done with the same attention to detail and patience accorded Yamadori or specifically cultivated pre-bonsai. Ryan Neil recently has been going after the cultivation of bonsai from nursery material.
 
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