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Greetings fellow BonsaiNuts. Next week I leave out for the Waldo Street Pottery Spring Tour 2024. The route will take me and my handmade bonsai containers from my home base in Atlanta to several major bonsai events, canvassing the middle of the country. The first stop is Houston, TX for Bonsai...

The nice folks at The Bonsai Supply, Jerome & Mari recently visited my Waldo Street Pottery Studio in downtown Atlanta and recorded footage of my pot making process to share on their wildly popular YouTube Channel. Other than me being a complete goof and my unfortunate choice of headwear, I...

Russell Baggett and myself (Eli Akins) are providing guided Yamadori collecting trips near Atlanta this spring. See flyer attached and we have a page set up at Facebook under the name Yamadori Expeditions. Let us know if you’d like more information.

Here’s a progression of an American Beech I collected about 5 years ago. I stumbled on the tree in a spot near downtown Atlanta behind a business I used to work for. At the time I had no idea how to collect, so I watched It for close to 2 years while I got some experience with successfully...

I have an afternoon free in Toronto and would like to see some trees. Does anyone know of a public or private collection I could see while there? Thanks in advance.

Roll Call!!! The fabulous Bonsai Expo is this weekend in Asheville. One of the premier bonsai events in the South... Jack Sustic is the guest artist and is a great guy, I'm looking forward to his critique and participation. I'll be there with my wife and my pots, last year we were upstairs in...

This Easter I spent the day with my teacher, Rodney Clemons and his wife Charlie of Allgood Bonsai. We have been talking about putting these trees together for a couple of years, and the time had come. All told, we got 17 trees and one ghost in the 54.5 x 35 x 3.5" Chinese-made oval container...

As I work out of town some weekends during the summer I am considering installing a watering system in one of my bonsai areas. My wife is kind enough to water for me, but she has her own gardening projects and watering everything every day, upwards of twice per day, it's a big job for anyone. I...

3 Years ago my teacher, Rodney Clemons (Allgood Bonsai), my Uncle Buddy and I went collecting on family property in South Georgia. We came across this tree and none of us knew what it was- except for awesome! We collected it and Rodney was kind enough to house it for recovery before I brought it...

This year the 2016 Winter Silhouette Bonsai Expo will be held on December 03-04 in Kannapolis, NC. This event continues to grow and has been consistently better year to year. In addition to a wonderful display of bonsai shown in a very unique setting, there will be demos by Bill Valvanis...

I'm happy to be a vendor at the 2016 Joy of Bonsai in Brunnell, FL. I've only heard great things about this show. And, after meeting many of the FLA group at Artisans Cup and the Winter Silhouette show and with the line up, I believe it will be a wonderful event. I hope to see and meet any and...

I am proud to say that I will be vending my hand-made bonsai containers at this years Bonsai Winter Silhouette Show in Kannapolis, NC. It will be my 3rd year attending and first year vending at this fantastic bonsai show. Some of the pots I have posted here will be for sale at the show. I hope...

These two came out of the kiln yesterday. They are both Earthen Red clay, one in gloss grey with yellow tones that break over the throwing lines, the other a tropical blue gloss glaze called Men In Tights.

My thread is in response to Smoke's call to arms for a maple. I originally read the post and shrugged it off because I didn't have a tree to fit the bill. Then, collecting season hit the South. In a small patch somewhere near Atlanta I found my candidate growing wild in a patch of woods near a...

I will be between LA & Palm Springs in January on Business with a rental car and I'm looking for nursery recs. I'm mostly into deciduous material, and pots. Any help appreciated, thanks!

American Elm Air Layer- EDIT: It's A Hackberry! This spring I spotted an American Elm at my neighbor's house that was growing between his fence and his large rhododendron. The tree was appx 5 feet tall, and appx 4" diametrer with zero taper up to the top of the fence. It appeared that the tree...

I collected this tree early this spring in near a river in South GA with my teacher, Rodney Clemons and my uncle Buddy. We weren't and still aren't sure what it is, any help with ID is appreciated. The tree stands close to 5' tall and is hollow with 3-4 holes in the trunk as it twists upward...

Today I assisted my teacher Rodney Clemons repot a huge Kingsville boxwood forest with stones that hasn't been repotted in close to 20 years. It was an all day affair and I am thrilled to have been a part of it. Thanks Rodney and Charlie for including me... Here is the planting in the before...

I collected these 2 urban yamadori near downtown Atlanta. I have no experience with the species and info seems scattered, but my guess is that they are pretty tough customers. I usually wait a bit before posting in hopes of the plants surviving, but Walter Pall posted a few nice pics of...

I haven't posted in a while so I thought I'd post this little Grace Hendrick Phillips Boxwood posing as an old oak tree. I'm pretty bad about documenting and photos in general, but I thought this photo was ok so here goes. The tree is 7" tall from the soil level with a 3" root spread and a 1"...

Does anyone have any info on a pot stamped Jepson? I saw one on ebay I liked and bought it, but can't seem to find out anything about the potter. Cheers all.

While home on the farm this week I took advantage of an offer my uncle made to take 3 large boxwoods home with me. They were planted at a building in the '60's that became a church in the 90's and that's when they were dug for new landscaping and transplanted in rows on our farm for future use...

I came to South GA this week unexpectedly, but at the perfect time for the trees to be popping. I visited my favorite old growth nurserys and pulled some great azaleas and went into the woods and pulled a couple of small stumps and stumbled on something very special. I pulled this hop...

Today on my lunch break I was minding my own business driving down a suburband road and 10 huge boxwoods jumped out right in front of me! Well, they were on a trash pile anyway, moist rootballs an all. So I did what any bonsai nut would do, I put on the hazards and started loading. I got 7 in...

Today I stumbled on this great piece of material while collecting rocks in a creek bed outside Atlanta and collected my first tree. I think it's hornbeam but it may be a beech. Help identifying is appreciated. Comments and suggestions are also welcomed. My first attempt at posting a photo too...