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Congratulations! Great work and thank you for sharing!

I saw a guy build a fairly heavy-duty turntable from a Sit-n-Spin base and some wood. I've built one and it works great. It rotates freely enough but I don't usually need a brake. If I did need a brake I would use a rubber wedge like someone else mentioned in this thread. Anyone who...

Dawes Arboretum Bonsai Show, June 2014

34th Annual Bonsai Show June 14, 2014 — June 15, 2014 11am - 5pm Visitors Center and Deck The Dawes Arboretum 7770 Jacksontown Rd. SE Newark, Ohio 43056 Phone: 740-323-2355 (toll free, 800.44.DAWES) It's Father's Day weekend so bring Dad to The Dawes Arboretum annual Bonsai Show...

Mike, I have collected at least 14 Yews for Bonsai from various landscape jobs. I've washed the roots with a jet nozzle to remove all original soil for tree health AND as you say, "show me the bones better" (root structure). My college degree is in horticulture and ONE thing I remember that...

Dug 10 Yews in 2006. Lost one a year after being dug. Will be able to style some this year and wait on a few to recover more. See HERE

Regarding the slow growth: Even though the trunk is large it is mostly deadwood with a small percentage of the overall tree as living tissue. Plant carbohydrate reserves are stored in roots and sapwood of a tree's trunk and large branches. The deadwood of the tree is isolated from the...

Thanks for your thoughts... it seems as if the flow might even be affected by the very ends of the upper deadwood from pic 2 to 3. It is amazing what slight changes make.

2 Virtuals with simplified deadwood. What do you think? If you like the simplified approach, which one do you like better? Do the the virts improve design flow and eye movement over the deadwood?

More possibilities with shorter deadwood on left:

I'm considering removing the small middle Taxus OR moving it to the left end of the grouping. If I move it to the left I will slant it more to the left than it appears in the picture. Which do you all like better? Either way I think it will provide more variation and interest in the...

A virtual of possible adjustments. Shorten the tree and jin a branch that is too heavy.

Awesome progression!! Thanks for sharing with us!

Check out my trunk thickening work done on a Scots Pine with sacrifice branches (or trunk in this case :) ) Here

Thought I'd throw in a little photo essay of what I'm doing with a Scots Pine. This tree was originally marketed as a pom-pom landscape specimen tree. The Nebari was great and I could see I would use one of the lower branches as the new trunk-line and the rest of the original upper trunk would...

Great progress, Al! Thanks for sharing.

Taxus, my favorite species!! Dug from a hedge.

Not yet tried these companies but here's some links: http://www.treeshrubseeds.com/catalog.asp (this one has seeds from a tree with smaller leaves) https://sheffields.com/seed_genus_species_lot/ACER/buergerianum/080490

Al, Thoughts and Prayers for you and your wife!!

Hi Ed, Great find!! Like you, I bought a similar pom-pom Juniper for the trunk and then later decided to approach graft several Shimpaku whips to it. You can obviously get foliage back closer to the main trunks by grafting. I grafted more than I thought I would need, ~ 4 in all, because I...

I've used Napa 8822 D.E. since 2005. 1:1 ratio with pine bark of similar size as the D.E. It has not broken down in our harsh Ohio winters. After spending several years in a bonsai pot, I recycled some of the D.E. for use in training pots. Still good after several more years of use.

This one has good potential as a literati style.

Thanking God along with you for Caleb's progress!!:D

Brian, Great vision and execution on all your featured trees !! Thanks for sharing.

Taxus is one of my favorites, too. Thankfully, these Taxus were growing in a more loamy soil on top of a clay layer that prevented deep root growth. Their roots were naturally more spreading. It was an all-day event to get them out and potted up. The boxwood replacements had to wait ;)...