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Friend of mine just sent me this, surprised I didn't see a thread about it already on here... Bonsai thief steals $118,000 of tiny trees... My heart goes out to Mr. and Mrs. Iimura, hopefully the trees are found and returned. If not though, I can only hope that the thief listens to Mr...

So I happened to stop into our local Lowes today to grab a new tool, and I just happened to walk out into the garden center where I saw this: o_O :eek: :D Didn't think I'd find anything but it was so tempting I had to look anyway... whole lot of nothing, until I came across these three -...

One of the tree species I've always wanted in my collection has been a burning bush/winged spindle (Euonymous alatus) because of their amazing fall display of bright salmon red to crimson leaves. I've always kept my eye out for one with a decent trunk, but being an understory plant the majority...

So a relative of mine ended up with a whip of a tree from an arbor day presentation at school, didn't have any use for the tree so they passed it along to me. At first glance I thought it might be a bald cypress based on leaf shape, but the more I look the more little differences I'm finding...

So I lucked out this year and got free access to prepping some old garden material for removal next spring. Nice big old twisty privet, double trunk juniper that's been growing for about 30+ years, and a very interesting mugo pine. I saw this mugo in late winter, it's being overshadowed by the...

So I go to a nursery I frequent (Litchfield Hills Nursery in Litchfield, CT) because I decided to finally purchase the Weeping Scots Pine I've been on the fence for after I'd seen a couple months before.... Bruce there tells me "Oh some other guy doing bonsai bought that a couple months ago -...

We've all heard that bonsai adage at some point... "The branches should be arranged so it looks as if it has spaces for birds to fly through." I went out to work on my spruce the other day and I think a little feathered friend took that saying a bit too literally... Who knew birds read Naka...

So I was thumbing through my copy of Lenz's book again, and for some reason I happened to notice something I've passed over probably a hundred times before.... Let's see if you can pick it out too... If you already know the answer, please don't spoil it for those playing...

OMFG! So I started a post on a craft beer forum I just joined - basically a silly thread where I hoped beer retailers (of which I am one) could post silly or stupid or annoying stories about customers they've had. Holy Hell, did I open the biggest whoop-ass grade can of worms ever! So a huge...

So I went to a local nursery today to pick up some perlite and fertilizer and I got chatting with one of the managers there (he now recognizes me as the "bonsai guy" whenever I visit). Anywho, he asked me how my trees were doing, I said fine - and then somehow, I can't remember exactly, we got...

So today I decided to tortur.....ah-hem, work on another young Mugo... Pumilio like the first one, and the same age as well (in its 5th season). So here I go with another $7 Lowe's Special! After poking around the base and removing some extra dirt, it became apparent that all the roots were...

Back in April of '14, I PM'd Vance and asked him if, to his knowledge, he knew of anyone who had tried an exposed root Mugo. He replied that he didn't know of anyone in the U.S. who took Mugo serious enough to try such a thing - so no. We bantered back and forth for a couple messages, and when...

I've had this Chinensis for about two years... Re-potted when I first got it to get it out of the garden soil it was in, and just re-potted about five weeks ago into a more freely draining inorganic mix. I've been battling a small case of rust through pruning only since I got it, but this...

So I was at a local nursery the other day picking up a solid steel trenching shovel for mother's day for my grams, and I happened to wander through the new stock they had just brought in... Bad move on my part. I went back today and bought myself a new maple - yatsubusa kashima, a pretty little...

11:00 AM :( 4:00 PM :D Happy Spring From Southern New England! Took it long enough... :rolleyes:

First off... I love Hawthorns... Smooth or craggy bark, flowers in spring, dark green leaves, red berries in fall, relatively easy to grow once you know how, several different leaf shapes and colors here in N. America... But I've always lamented the fact that the ones I find have leaves 2+...

So I just happened to notice this... I've seen people under 100 posts with "seedling" status I have 180+ posts, I'm a "mame" under my avatar.... I've seen people 400+ that are "shohin" I just saw someone with 60+ posts labeled as "yamadori"????? I thought yamadori were venerable old mountain...

So I came across this stuff on the home depot website while looking for pumice sources... It's a pelleted, porous, expanded baked clay (2000F) used in hydroponics. What I thought interesting was the size is on average between 8mm and 16mm. Manufacturers say if you like hydroton or leca...

So I read through about 10 pages of the juniper forum trying to find info on when I should go collecting, but to my dismay all I found were posts on Sierras, Rocky Mountain, and Cali Junipers... Nothing in my growing zone! This may be all moot because I have yet to approach the property owner...

So when the weather was in the 30's back in December and early January I didn't mind working my spruces out in the coldframe, but with this single digit nonsense my hands just get too cold and stiff outside even with gloves on. I still have a few plants to work and was wondering... Is it...

When I started Bonsai, one of the plant's that I wanted right from the get-go was a privet. A nice, big, old privet that I could carve and abuse and it would still keep growing. Like many I was inspired By Harry Harrington's website and Graham Potter's vids showing what you could actually do...

So, I was sitting around Tuesday night wondering what to do, and I realized I should get to planting the native tree seeds I collected in the fall so they can have their two month cold-stratification before spring gets here (for me it's still over two months away :(). Some of these trees will...

Just found this posting: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Brand-New-21-Pieces-Bonsai-Tools-Kit-/331056263483?pt=US_Garden_Tools&hash=item4d147db13b Guessing they're not master grade, but for a beginner set - well, what do you think? Lotta' tools for that price...

With sub zero temps and spring still 3 months away (at least for me, might be longer or shorter depending on where you are) some of us might be developing cabin fever via bonsai deprivation. To rectify this, I propose this thread to combat the effects of being stuck inside looking at a...

So I've been combing through a bunch of bonsai sites and blogs in an attempt to A) stave off cabin fever and B) try to learn something I didn't know before. I recently read through Tony Tickle's blog/site: http://yamadoriforsale.com/tag/technique/ and the post on a "revolutionary"...