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Hello folks, I have about a year with this Wisteria, about 2 1/2 weeks it was %100 "naked", I have no idea how old it is, but it does not look too young for my noob eye. It is about 24" tall and about 5" diameter at soil level. Can anyone provide me with some tips about what to do next...

The past weekend, the California Bonsai Society held the 55th Convention and show at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Garden Grove CA. I wasn't able to make it to the workshops or critiques (hopefully next time, in 5 years), but I got plenty of images from the Main display for you to enjoy. If...

Anyone knows where can I find a container similar to the image below in the area of SoCal or nearby?? I'm talking about the big container not the metal watering can. :cool: Thanks

Today it was a very special day for Kofu Bonsai Kai, we held our annual digging trip to the Mojave Desert looking for some California Juniper specimes. This year it was a very well attended event, a convoy of 12 vehicles and a total of 18 members, some of them have been digging on these lands...

Saturday 18th was the date when "Mr California Juniper" was to be the honor demonstrator at Kofu Kai, without a doubt one of the club events that draws most people from several places, and this year was not the exception, with +70 attendees the demonstration started up at 7:00 pm sharp. Harry...

This is the first time, I'm working with Japanese Maples, in the past I've worked with Trident Maples that's as far as I ever been. My questions about this Japanese maple: Are those some kind of flowers popping out? What should I do with them? Can they negatively affect the health...

A few samples of the material being exhibited right now at the Winter Silhouette show. It was a great time for me and my son who is getting into bonsai little by little. Enjoy! Korean Hornbeam from Alex Marien Zelkova by Henry Leal Nebari Close up Chinese Elm by Elaine...

This is a new volcanic rock that I recently acquired from a tropical fish store. It's about 22lbs 21 inches tall Front Back Right Left Detail back, I have the wild idea of using those small holes as the location for some other plant/specie or some kind of accent plant...

Hello Folks, Yesterday, I was able to get 5 Japanese Maples, 2 Beni Otake's, 1 Saoshika, 1 Kihachijo, and another unidentified. This JM came from a friend of mine, that cannot longer take care of them due to an illness, best thing of all, all for free! :shock: As you can see they are on...

So I had this Juniper (probably Prostata) which I wasn't too sure what path to follow, design wise speaking. After asking several individuals most of them agreed that it will work better on a semi-cascade and getting rid of the little Jin. This is where I was before And this is...

Anyone knows of a good source for "Large" lava rock for sale in Southern California? I'm looking into 10~12" rocks? Thanks folks!

This is my latest work on this Boxwood before (Jan 11') it looked like this and now ! I have more images on the forum The Bonsai Universe and also the 360 Virtual gallery here Comments or questions are welcome. Thanks!

I have this juniper for a little over 2 years, I have done pretty much nothing other than just repotting it, and the reason? Well, I think it has a pretty bad branch structure, there's only 3 main branches. The trunk its a nice 2.75" diameter. But the branches are just driving me crazy, I have...

Hey Folks, I have put together a virtual 360 gallery for anyone that would like to exhibit his/her Bonsai's in a very cool way. You can find more information about it here and if you are interested you should see a couple of galleries in action here Edit: for some reason firefox seems...

Hello guys, My folks have decide to get rid of a pomegranate that has been outside in the front yard of their place for several years (7+) I asked them and they agreed to have me dig it out and do my little bonsai thing to it. This is the tree in question: Its about 5...

Hello folks, I have a juniper procumbens nana, that while I was trying to styled one of the main branches (what I was planning to turn into the apex) pretty much snapped out of the tree while I was trying to straighten it up, it literally came off the tree, that's how bad it was :cry: I...

I posted this boxwood along with another tree on another thread but I decided it was time to split them into separated discussions since each of them its getting different feedback and having everything mix up on a single thread could create a lot of confusion. This is what a got a few days...

I was able to get this couple of nice pre-bonsai's from the nursery of one of our club members. Needless to say that I got them for a ridiculous price, but now I need some help, ANY input you can provide me will be very helpful. I hope this are the right names for them: 1. Buxus...

I've been a little bored today and I decided to make a quick virtual of my CA Juniper with a Tokoname pot and some moss, if I have a chance I will like to do another one with choukaku Tokoname and probably do some virtual work on the foliage, branch position and death wood :D So... what do...

So this is about the 5th day with non-stop raining here in SoCal, something unusual if you ask me. I have all my bonsai's on a mix of Diatomaceous earth and pine bark, which drains perfectly fine, this is my first rain season while doing bonsai, so my question is: Will you keep your trees...

Hey folks, Like many of us SoCal residents are aware of, we been experiencing some constant heavy rains for the past 4 days, is it a good time to go and hunt some Yamadori material? or wait until winter its over?

Yesterday it was our Bonsai club x-mas party we had a really good time with lots of food and items for the raffle. I feel like the luckiest man on earth...... as part of the raffle I was able to take home a California Juniper.... :eek:. collected by (at least my personal opinion) the person...

Can anyone ID this knob cutter? I think it could be a Masakuni but I have my doubts about it..:)

Can anyone recommend a good mix of soil for ground planting? I'm planning on planting some tridents and japanese maples for future bonsai materials. Also will be too risky to plant (ground) my (very young) junipers (procumbens nana) in the next few days or should I just leave them on their...

I'm sorry if this has been asked before but how do you go about growing Trident Maples with such buttressed bases? Is there any special technique that I should know/learn, and can you point me into that direction if possible, books,links,websites..?