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Brookside Bonsai Society is hosting their annual auction on Thursday evening, Oct. 10, 6-9PM. Address is: 7901 Meadowbrook Lane, Chevy Chase, MD. While only club members are permitted to sell, anyone can buy. Brookside is part of Potomac Bonsai Association (PBA) which is based at the US...

I am selling my old Kingsville Boxwood on FB Bonsai Auctions page. Auction ends Saturday May 11 evening. Hope to see you there!

This is the annual festival at the US National Arboretum. free to cheap, the national exhibit will be on display of course, and local club members of Potomac Bonsai Association will be showing their trees as well. Vendors with plant material, finished trees, supplies, tools...

This one is at least 20 years old. I started with 4" tall trees from a local nursery and arranged them in a pot. It has been repotted many times over the years, most recently in 2016 I think, by Danny Coffey at a club workshop. It could stand a repot and root trim again. The container is a...

Old ficus benjamina forest from saplings started over 20 years ago. Canopy measures 26T, 26W, 22Deep. Pot is 16 x 13-1/2 x 3-1/4 by Richard Robertson of Rockport Pottery in Maine. Some spots on pot look like chips but are simply small voids in the glaze. This one is too large for shipping...

Due to how this page works in terms of editing, it is far easier to simply start a new list of what is still available for sale. Sorry for any confusion, and thank you for your patience. 1. Kingsville Boxwood $650 2. Chinese elm literati designed by Danny Coffey: $225 3. Crape Myrtle...

This wisteria was dug from a late club member's property in approx 2011. I have had it in a container since then. The foliage it produces is routinely lush. I looked at it for years without a good idea for design, until last summer. It has never bloomed for me, but it is going to be 7 years...

7. American Hornbeam, collected 2009: $80 8. Acer Palmatum / Japanese Maple from seed: $30+shipping 9. Acer Palmatum #2, from seed: $45+shipping 10. Acer Palmatum Sharp's Pygmy: $75+shipping 11. Japanese Red Maple from seed: $55+shipping

Without writing a blurb of each tree that I will be selling in the near future, I took a couple of shots of some of them just to gauge interest. 1. Kingsville Boxwood $650 2. Chinese elm $90 3. Chinese elm literati $225 4. Trident maple $150 5. Crape myrtle (from Wigerts, has not...

Retired and reducing my collection. This tree is too big and too heavy for me to ship so would need to be picked up between Baltimore and Frederick MD. It is in a ceramic pot with chop (could not ID maker). Pot is about 18x15x5, tree is about 24x24x24. Major trunk chop at least 15 years ago...

This one I dug from a friend's property in central Virginia. Apparently the deer had been nibbling on it for quite a while. I got it into a pot in the spring of 2014. It loves the kanuma too.

I got this at an auction several years ago because no one bid on it. It has filled out nicely, and bloomed in spite of 2 weeks of rain every day. I kept it in my garage so the blooms would last. Hope you like it. The first pic is from spring of 2014 when I was getting ready to repot. It...

An event of great magnitude is set to come to the Baltimore-Washington area in June 2015. Turf Valley Country Club, June 11 thru 14, 2015. http://www.absbonsai.org/2015-abs-learning-symposium Below is a brief synopsis of events. This will be a once in a decade event. My club has even...

I did this one close to Mother's Day 2014. May 11 I believe. The tree is one I got at a PBA Festival probably 8 or so years ago. About the size of your finger, it went into the ground for 3 years, then I lifted it and put it into a grow box. Boon had his way with it, partially removing one...

This is surely the largest pot I've seen before. It was easily the size of a bath tub. We were told we could have it if we could carry it out. I cant imagine what would go into such a pot. Nor how it would get moved, other than a forklift. And the price? No idea, but I'd guess it is as big...

Summer vacation ? i'm getting amped up for my annual summer vacation coming in July. It got me to wondering what others here do for vacation from the workaday world? I work 50 weeks a year to get 2 weeks away from it all. What do you do?? Here's mine.

I dug a small azalea from a friend's rural property in Virginia. This has been in the ground for at least 2 years now. Last year the lace bugs clobbered it. I was just enjoying a scotch on the rocks while looking over my grow beds, and saw a light green lumpy thing on this azalea. I bent...

I got this azalea last summer for a song (and I cant sing!) because something about how it looked grabbed my attention. I dont know what kind it is. It recently bloomed (mid-May) so the likelihood of it being a satsuki is slim to none. ID help would be appreciated! As you can see, when it...

ok, not really. About 7 or 8 years ago a fellow club member bestowed upon me a flat of A. Palmatums. They had been in the flat long enough to have grown to about 18-24" or so, and the roots had completely knitted themselves into a large mat. I used shears to cut them apart and ended up with...

I got this probably 15 years ago from the first auction I attended. A long-time club member and highly respected founding member of the National Bonsai Foundaiton passed and his collection was auctioned. I bought this tree as it was the only thing I could afford. I am not positive what type...

I got this tree at an auction probably 5+ years ago. I have reason to believe it was from Stanley Chinn. The roots always bothered me, and after two major repottings I could never get it deep enough to cover them. See if you agree by reviewing the photos. Anyway after Mother's day brunch...

I'm wondering if this problem is regional, or nationwide? I just noticed this leaf gall again this year on all my elms. Chinese elm, American elm, elms in pots, elms in the ground. Apparently it is not too serious to the welfare of the tree unless the infestation is very heavy. As I...

I just heard about this on the news last night--almost 10 months after the fact. Some lowlife cut an 8x10foot burl from a big redwood in a national park. Unbelievable. http://mckinleyvillepress.com/thief-steals-giant-burl-from-redwood-national-park/ It really makes you wonder what...

I had the good fortune this weekend to spend some time with each of the guest Artists at the PBA show in DC. I took a BYOT workshop with Arthur Joura Saturday, and with Rodney Clemons on Sunday. Arthur Joura is curator of the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville. I have read a bit of his...

At the PBA show in DC this weekend I saw a most unusual pot. Made me try to think out of the box with regard to containers for bonsai. I've seen various rocks with hollows that hold a rootball and a tree, but this one got me. What kind of things have you seen? This is a brake drum from an...