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For those of us that have procumbens (nana) junipers, why don't we all share some pics? I've seen a bunch in the forums, but I thought it would be helpful to have a thread to share info and pics with each other. I recently picked up a couple Green Mound junipers. I thought they were just a...

I've got a few plants in my back yard that have been hacked back repeatedly. I thought about collecting them to see what I can do with them, but I missed the window and now they're all leafed out. Thought they were some kind of oak, but I'm not that educated on identifying leaves. I tried...

Tonight I bought a procumbens nana to grow out. As I was sitting it out with my other junipers I decided to take a head count. I'm up to 23 junipers in various states of development. When I first started learning about bonsai I had a bunch of tropical plants I was trying to grow out with an...

are they not taking up fertilizer? I'd like to hear some peoples reasoning behind fertilizing or not fertilizing after reporting.

I've mentioned this tree a couple times. My digital caliper is missing, but I think it's a little small to put in the maple contest. I'm making this thread to show its progression regardless. I bought this last year. The plant was slipped out of the nursery container. The sides of the rootball...

Last year I bought this landscape coral bark Japanese maple. I planned on trunk chopping, but I tried to make a couple air layers first. Both failed and I figured it was too late in the year to chop the trunk. So this year in ready to chop it down, but I'm not sure about the timing. It's...

I've had this little tree for about three years now (where does the time go?), but I haven't posted pic of it in a while. It dropped its leaves after bringing it in so I decided to take a picture of it. I'm not pleased with the base. I need to work on creating an actual nebari. The top is...

I have a couple green Japanese maples. One needs chopped down next year. The other is still growing out. I'd like to cut them back now to try to encourage buds down low on the trunk for next year. Is this possible now? Our nights here are starting to dip into the 50s and the days have been...

After a few years of messing around with my plants I think I'm finally at the point where I've learned how to treat my plants so they're actually healthy and able to be worked on. Some of you guys that have been into bonsai for a while probably don't even think about it, but it is a nice...

I bought this last year around June (I think) from New England Bonsai Gardens website. I pulled it out of the pot to inspect the roots and the wet dirt pretty much fell away from the entire rootball. So I repotted it into lava/akadama/pumice in the only bonsai pot I had laying around. I've just...

How many plants do you have? How many new ones so far this year? How many have you gotten rid of or killed?

After another year of wondering if my trident maple made it through the winter I'm trying to find more species to use that are more cold hardy and require less protection in the winter. Please suggest any for me. Here is my list so far: Amur maple Siberian elm Mugo pine Scots pine Privet...

Is this a fungus, root, or an overwatering issue? Back story: I bought three parsonii junipers last fall. The automatic watering system had overwatered them. I bought them thinking that for $12 each I could risk losing them if I couldn't help them recover. One was slipped into a mix of bark...

Just when I was thinking that we've had a mild winter here, real winter shows up and drops a foot of snow. Brrrrr.

Here is something I have been pondering on and off. Routinely it is recommended to only bare root half your juniper when repotting then do the next half the next year. It is also said that on junipers there is a direct connection between specific root areas and the live veins flowing up the...

Is there a reason for this? I feel like I miss out on things because I forget to check the tea house forum.

Here is a green Japanese maple I acquired last summer. I slipped it into a slightly larger container with bonsai soil. I gave it too much sun, but the heavy water and fertilizing made sure the tips kept growing even as the inner leaves scorched and fell off. Right now it has a spot where it...

I would like this thread to be a discussion where we can all share our experiences on using growing beds to develop trees. It you have any tips or questions let hear them. This spring I am making a 22x12x1 growing bed in my backyard. The plan is to scrape away a little of the top soil, put up...

I bought this elm last spring and didn't have the time to keep up in hedging back. It's kind of a generic old school pine structure, but I'm not sure I want to start over. I cut everything back today and cleaned off the top soil. I could probably cut it back more, but I undecided on its future...

I haven't done much cutting on pines. Tonight I removed a few branches on a pine and the tools I used had a bit of sticky sap on them. What's the best way to remove it? Dish soap didn't seem to do much.

My friend and bonsai artist Adam Lavigne has been in the hospital with a blood infection and bowel blockage. He had to have emergency surgery a couple days ago and this morning he got his breathing tube removed. He's doing better but will need more surgery in the future so please keep him in...

I randomly tried to open the bonsai wiki here. It's been disabled since before I made my account. Is there any reason behind this? I was think it would be nice to have areas in the wiki to link to newbs asking simple questions.

How does lava and pumice compare as far as moisture retention, aeration, and CEC? I was thinking of only using one or the other along with akadama for next seasons repotting. I'm in favor of lava rock just because it looks nicer mixed with akadama than pumice does, but everyone was going...

Usually I root my cuttings in bonsai soil outside when it's warm. It's been hard to root cuttings inside this was for me. I had a few clippings left over and put them in water with a pinch of rooting hormone powder. Does this look like roots forming? Some are in a clear shot glass. The big one...

Jonas Dupuich has written about creating Japanese black pine from seed on his blog. Cutting the roots off completely after sprouting and then developing a new radial nebari to make good future bonsai. Here are a couple articles...