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    Please help identify this red flower

    I came accross this thorny shrub and was wondering if anybody can help me identify this. I've been on the internet, but could not find anything. Please help. Thanks Gerhard
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    Help needed in identifying the problem

    I have a small azalea which is coming down with something. I am not sure what this is and what causes it. Some of the new shoots are much lighter in colour than the older ones. Some of the leaves are getting brown around the edges and worsens as time goes on. I did feed once so far this season...
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    Tilia Cordata

    I bought this little tree from a bonsai nursery over the weekend. I transplanted it into a bigger pot and would like to let the trunk fatten over the next 2 years. I do need some help on possible styling of this little one. My main question is this stump on the right hand side of the trunk with...
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    Bonsai wisdom?

    I wonder if it will be possible start a thread on bonsai wisdom. By this I do not mean technical stuff like "how to's". By this I mean those "pearls" of which you do not read in books, but only acquire through experience. I will give an example: The other day Mr Vance taught me a very valuable...
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    What is this?

    I have bought this little tree a year ago and left it ouside. I started to work on it now, but need some help. First I'm not entirely sure what kind of tree it is. Second I've attached a few pics and would lke to know what you old ake of it!
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    What's possible?

    Hi all, I just collected a fairly large cutting off a prune tree. Now I don't know if I did it right, but I loosened the bark about 15 cm in strips, cut away a big part of the wood inside, dipped the stripped bark into rooting powder and planted the cutting about 20cm deep. 1. Does this...
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    What to do?

    I have a few questions as a complete beginner... Early spring when the trees wake up and start to push out these long shoots/branches all over the place, should you control the length of them or should one leave them to grow out? Up to now I always shortened them to keep the form of the tree...
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    Beginner thoroughly enjoying his trees

    Hi everybody, I am a biginner in bonsai, just getting to know some of the basics. Its been 3 years now since I started with bonsai and have a ficus retusa and a carmona as formed trees. I'm also frantically trying to develop an azalea and bougainvilla into bonsai and have a few african thorn...
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