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I am finally settled in to our new home in Phoenix Arizona. Getting my bonsai benches back up and going and have been driving some dirt roads looking at some of the Scrub Oaks. I was wondering what people look for when collecting oaks. Do you want them to already be loose in the soil? Rooted...

I have a stone that I found that I would like to make a daiza for and display but have been having a hard time finding information on building the daiza for the stone. Does anyone here have a good website for carving out the daiza for the stone to rest in?

I ended up with a boxwood from my local clubs raffle this last month. It seems to be in good health, healthy green leaves, new growth extending up from the foliage pads/pom-poms. I have left it on my bench as I got it, let it get use to the cooler temps at my home, game it a little organic...

So I am finding that I am really bad about fertilising my bonsai and have been looking for an organic that I an put on the soil or mix into the soil mix to help. I found this Happy Frog brand and picked up a bag of 5-5-5 all-purpose fertilizer and was wondering what everyone here though of it...

I have a couple of willow leaf ficus that I have been slowly growing up with the hope of combining them into a single fused trunk tree. I was wondering if anyone else has had luck with this and how they went about doing it. My long term goal is to take my two trees placing them over a rock with...

I was wondering if anyone has use products like Ferti-lome root Stimulator 4-10-3 for their collected trees? I have a very short growing window where I live (snowing right now) and I would like to offer anything I collect the very best chance to establish over the summer to survive the winter...

One of my local nursery's gets in some nice looking olive trees and I was wondering if you can make a fused trunk type of tree using olive?

So thanks to our local road crew I have a new lodgepole pine to try to work with. It was cut out of the road bank this morning. I am going to get it into a mixing tub with some bonsai soil and cross my fingers.

I was wondering if anyone has drilled out drainage holes into granite slabs and what drill bits did you use? I find a lot of nice sized slabs of granite and was wondering about drilling them out for slab plantings.

I was wondering about the use of coffee as a possible fertilizer. It is used in some of my other plant hobbies in a very dilute form. Just wondering if anyone has used this and what your results were.

I was able to get a ficus from my work that had very little roots left due to being kept in a very damp environment. I currently have it potted in pure sphagnum to keep in moist and try to encourage some root growth. I was wondering if having the tree planted in sphagnum or if planting the...

What is everyone thoughts on using decomposed granite in their bonsai soil mix? I live in an area where it is readily available and find trees growing in it naturally. I was thinking of using it as part of my soil mix and it would be sifted down for set sizes.

I was wondering if anyone has has success in taking young branches on ficus and wiring them down into the soil and having them start to root? I am trying it with a ginseng ficus but it has only been a couple months so I dont want to disturb it yet.

I am getting a large (8+ft) Ficus benjamina from a local person and am looking at chopping it back to make into something more bonsai like. It is currently around 8 feet tall and very leggy but has an interesting twisted trunk that I think would make a nice bonsai. My question is should I...

I have been looking into Chinese elms for a little while now and have seen in several places that they can been kept indoors, is this true. I picked one up yesterday with the typical "S" curve to it at my local bonsai shop and they had it labeled as an indoor bonsai. I have it next to my ceder...

On my morning walk I found what looked like a great lodgepole pine that is a natural semi cascade. The catch is that when I was removing some of the top layer of dirt to look for the nebari, I dug down around 8-10 inches and it looks like this amazing tree may actually be an exposed root of a...

I have been talking with some of the local bonsai guys and they were talking about foliar feeding with their bonsai. I was wondering if this is a common practice for most people with bonsai. I was wondering what people use when feeding their trees this way. I look forward to reading...

I am looking for a copy of Ponderosa Pines as Bonsai by Larry Jackel. If anyone has an extra copy of this book please let me know. You can message me here or send me an email. Thanks, Ponderosa Pines as Bonsai by Larry Jackel

Went for a nice walk with my daughter today that ended in a bit of rock climbing and had to shoot some photos of some nice little yamadori lodge pole pines. None of these were collected, just photographed and enjoyed.

What time of year Or when looking at the tree when is the best time to dig up lodge pole pine? I am at 9500ft in elevation so time of year is a little different for me so I was wondering what signs would I be looking for to tell if it is ok to dig up the tree or when it is already to late.

I am new to the denver area and was wondering when is a good time to start working on Junipers? I am up in conifer so we are around 15-20 degrees cooler than denver. I have a shimpaku that I am looking forward to wiring out and getting some movement into it.

I just moved to Denver, well Conifer right now, and will be looking to attend the local club meetings as soon as I can. I am looking forward to working with some pines and junipers but I was wondering about some of my hardy trees and their care in the winters here. I have one shimpaku...

I was given a Christmas gift of a magazine subscription and now I have to decide what magazine to get. I was wondering if you guys would have any suggestions on which bonsai magazine to look into getting. I have so far been getting a lot of books and watching a lot of bonsai videos on youtube.

I have a Benjamina ficus that I bought from a local guy getting out of bonsai that's growth has gotten very long from living in a window for years. I would like to prune it back and get the growth more compact. I was wondering if there is anything extra that I need to keep in mind with this...

Hello bonsai nutters, I will be visiting denver Colorado for the weekend and was wondering if anyone knows of any bonsai related places to stop by while in town.