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Hey all, was up at my parents house the other weekend (on Skaneateles Lake, NY) and noticed this really phenomenal deadwood hanging down right by the lake shore. Thought I'd share photos. I wish I had a better camera, but just took these on my phone: And one more photo in the other...

Hey all, so I got this crabapple from a nursery just a couple weeks ago. I haven't done tons of work to it, really just repotted it and cut off the very top of the tree but still left it quite tall with lots of foliage to help it settle into it's new pot. But just this past week these orange...

Hey All, So with some of my tax return money, I decided to make a couple serious pre-bonsai purchases online. This being one of them, 5 collected bald cypress which I intend on creating a forest / group planting with. Snagged them on Ebay this morning for a very reasonable price, these are...

Hey all, so I collected a hulking Russian Olive trunk over this past weekend that I'm really excited about, but noticed while potting it that it seems to have and infestation of, what appears to be, some type of silverfish. I would have taken a picture but I don't think either my phone or...

So, last summer I chopped a rather tall 'san jose' juniper down to almost nothing, shortly after joining Bnut. Posted a thread for it and nearly got my head bit off and it kind of devolved into a silly forum squabble (of which I am now more aquainted with lol). So I decided to begin a new...

So, this is probably a silly question and I'm 95% sure I know the answer. But what exactly is LIVE spagnum moss? Is it just whole long strand sphagnum (which is what I have pictured below)? Which is harvested from live moss. Basically sphagnum that is not the decomposed peat moss? Or is...

Hey all. So, got a Tamarack here, American larch (Larix laricina). I bought it from a nursery this past summer, not particularly knowing what I was going to do with it. I was dying to work on a tamarack, and this one was fat and a decent deal. Then I kind of stared at it for a number of...

Hey all, So, the area in which I'm going to be collecting a number of trees in a couple months is very heavy clay soil. I wanted to ask others what their experience is with collecting from heavy clay soil. I'm mainly inquiring about: 1. Does clay soil seem to have any effect on how compact...

How well do American Larch respond to a hard winter pruning? Like removing 50-60% of the foliage/branches? From what I've read it seems it would respond ok, I just read Lenz suggests cutting up to half the branches off right when collecting one. But I wanted to check in here before I do any...

So, was walking around my parent's property this past week and saw this stump in the yard: Asked my mother if she knew what it was and she said it was a honeysuckle with pink flowers. I looked up honeysuckles that would have pink flowers and I think it would probably be L. tatarica or L. x...

Hey all, I plan on collecting a multiflora rose from my parents property in spring. There's a whole bunch of them growing in an old farm field that hasn't actually been farmed in a couple decades. I just wanted to probe the forum to see if anyone else has ever tried working with roses, I...

I'm just curious if anyone on here has ever tried to put together a forest planting with 2 or 3+ different species of trees? Or has anyone seen decent examples of this being done? As actual forests have mixed species it occurred to me this could be really interesting if done right. Species...

Hey all, So I'm going to be putting some trees in training boxes. I'm going to use pond baskets for a number of my smaller trees. But I have larger trees and some larger trees I'll be collecting that i would like to put into something like an Anderson flat. But at the same time I would like...

Hi all. So right off the bat just want to say, I'm not trying to spark a thread on every type of soil combination possible as I think we have that covered pretty well so far ;). Everyone has their own formula that works for them. But I wanted to take a sort of poll on if you personally use a...

Ok so, went for a winter walk on my parents' property today, trudging through snow and getting rained on. But what a Beautiful day! I was going around scouting possible trees for collecting in the spring and Hawthorn has been on the top of that list for a while. I knew they were growing in the...

Hey all, So I wanted to throw this idea into the figurative bonsai arena. Has anyone ever used or heard of others using PGR hormones (Plant Growth Regulators) in order to reduce internode length? Now I feel like bonsai purists are probably gasping in horror as I type this, but let me clarify...

So a couple weeks ago I went Yamadori scouting in and around my parents' property. Lots of overgrown fields and patches of woods. One species I had in mind on this walk was this one, though I was unable to identify it until now. Common Buckthorn or Rhamnus cathartica. It is an exotic...

Hey folks, so I was just wondering if someone could give me an explanation of the various sizes of shears available. Seems the three or four basic types are the ones with the absurdly large looking handles, the ones with slightly less absurd looking handles, pretty average looking ones, then you...

I've heard that cutting the foliage, though it may create brown tips... Actually produces more back budding on junipers. Thoughts?

Can anyone tell me what species this is?!?! (Grows around central NY). It's absolutely beautiful, with violet leaves small enough for bonsai, really cool white berries (since its fall I'm not sure what the flower looks like) most of these shrubs the trunks are too thin to make very good bonsai...

So I have one dwarf Alberta spruce which its branches foliage extend all the way back to the trunk, oh so pretty! BUT what this post is REALLY about is that I have 2 dwarf White spruce, which mostly have their foliage on the tips of the branches and the rest of the branch to the trunk is bare...

Hey all! So i know a spot nearby with a number of wild hawthorns growing and would like to collect one or two. basically what I want to know is should i dig a trench around the ones I'm going to collect this fall and then actually collect them next spring? On that NOTE!!! What does digging a...

Picked this up today from a nursery on sale. struck my eye with tiny leaves (and a few berries!) of all the ones they had for sale i picked this one since i spotted a very interesting trunk amidst the bushy mess. Not a thick trunk, but really original movement and I plan on doing a shohin with...

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