Leatherbacks Veni Vidi Vici trees

leatherback · Dec 21, 2020

The cutting moved into a container, and by the end of summer it had rooted. SOme carving later and I had a nice start of a big lump olive

A few weeks ago this pant moved to the UK

Grovic · Dec 21, 2020

leatherback said:
At some point I bought a small olive in a garden centre. Hoping for low buds it sat in my garden for a year? Two?

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In 2013 I was done with it and thought, go bold or go home and lopped the head off. Waited, and ..
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A little carving and developing branches later:
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And two years later it is starting to go somewhere!
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But then.. 2018 I had a sabbatical. And I was not there for a few months. That resulted in a deep-frozen olive.. RIP
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It's a shame, that olive was looking so good.

AlainK · Dec 21, 2020

Sono venuto, ho visto, mi sono chiesto.
Non sei sicuro di cosa vuoi fare.

leatherback · Dec 21, 2020

Grovic said:
It's a shame, that olive was looking so good.

yeah. Ah well. Shit happens

leatherback · Jan 18, 2021

This pine was bought in 2017 from a well known Polish trader.

In 2018 I had given it 2 wirings.

HOwever, I realized this was too small a tree to get the level of ramification / detail in a tree this small, and I received a decent offer. It moved to Switserland.

badatusernames · Jan 18, 2021

leatherback said:
Na, not really. I only got into bonsai 9 years ago

that's inspiring as someone just diving into this

leatherback · Feb 8, 2021

Such a great week. Sold 3 trees. Only 50 more to go to get to the optimal nr of trees (<100)

This hibiscus was dug in march 2020, made a good recovery and was chopped back in winter. On a forum someone asked me whether I wanted to sell one. 2 days later the tree had moved 100 miles

AlainK · Feb 9, 2021

A very nice starter tree for an unusal species as bonsai.

If the weather is not too cold, that's about the right time to take cuttings and plant them in a frost-free area. I have one grown from a cutting I took years ago across the street, it's now been removed because of rod works, but mine is doing fine, about 1m50. It's the one in the background. I love the colours of the flowers, pink with a deep red heart :

leatherback · Feb 9, 2021

AlainK said:
If the weather is not too cold, that's about the right time to take cuttings and plant them in a frost-free area

-14c, is that cold?
Joking aside, I am reducing my collections. Not taking cuttings this year. Except maybe from akarara maples...

leatherback · Feb 9, 2021

This Tamarix is on its way to Austria. Bought it a few years ago and have never been inspired by it..

AlainK · Feb 9, 2021

leatherback said:
-14c, is that cold?

Way too cold to take cuttings

leatherback said:
oking aside, I am reducing my collection

I know how you feel

leatherback · Feb 9, 2021

AlainK said:
I know how you feel

anything interesting? Old yamadori picea or pinus? Nice fat corkbark maples?

AlainK · Feb 9, 2021

leatherback said:
anything interesting?

Not really : sending them would be more expensive than what they're worth.

The few I've sold so far were taken at my place, the last one a week ago by someone who rode 100 km down south and anyway I'm not into pines or conifers (except Larch), but if I could sell some of those I have, I'd be glad. Someone can probably find the "coup de coeur" and have a future for them...

leatherback · Mar 4, 2021

One of my cuttings has left too. A pomegranate this time..

leatherback · Apr 18, 2021

In winter 2014/2015 I was at a workshop in the UK, where I bought an overgrown juniper. Trimmed back, and brought into full health it came with me to a days of bonsaifun at a friends place, summer 2015:

leatherback · Apr 18, 2021

Fast forward..

2016:

2017:

2018, still going nowhere:

leatherback · Apr 18, 2021

In 2020 I rebuild the tree, which got slightly better:

Just not good enough. This picture is the last I have, before I sold it on. Not my tree.

leatherback · May 23, 2021

In 2017 I got this juniper from a good friend who collected a field of these a few years before

After a little twisting I got it into configuration nr 1 over that winter:

Not really happy, in winter 2019 I change the configuration, and decided to graft ittoigawa on there:

Then winter came.
That was all she wrote.
Burn pile. Did not live through winter. Guess I have been messing with it too much in too little time.

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