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  1. Hartinez

    Estate sale pot haul

    A client of mine brought to my attention an Estate Sale with listing talking about the persons bonsai hobby. It turns out the woman was Connie Gardner a well know bonsai and print artist locally. I knew she stopped practice a few years back but did not hear about her passing. I did make it to...
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    New stand build

    Work has been slow at the start of this year and so I decided to make a new stand. My grandpa passed away this last year and before he did he sent with my mom 2 pieces of what he was calling Mahogany (which I know @Bonsai Nut is a complicated topic of conversation in the wood world)...
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    Piñon pine #2

    This is my other piñon pine that had its first styling this fall. Collected in summer 21 it was time. I kept thinking it was a mistaken collection due to its lack of great presence and natural features. I ultimately decided a more slanting style would suit this tree best. Still deciding on...
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    Giant reindeer sculpture from oak tree in Houston Texas

    Every holiday season, my wife’s grandmother builds this reindeer using a wire frame, pine needles for the body and an oak branch that has grown so low it makes contact with the ground. She covers the portion of the branch that hits the ground and allows the branch to be the antlers of the...
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    Juniperus Sabina 2

    This tree started as nursery stock and was highlighted initially in my House money thread. This is my favorite of the house money trees. The trunk is powerful and has great movement. The jins and sharia are rugged now and should only age better with time. The final Image and 360 shows its...
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    National Show Display

    Hey everyone! Some of y’all know, but I just wanted to share a project I had the honor of working on with @mattspinniken . He asked if I might have a stand premade for one of his larch that was in the show. I didn’t, but I def had some ideas. I sketched a few things up, presented a rendering...
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    Piñon Jay seed clumps

    Growing up in New Mexico I’ve long admired the Piñon as meaningful tree in my life for the hours playing in and around them as a kid, to the fall seasons collecting, baking and chomping down on there delicious seeds. But now that I’m a fully obsessed bonsai practitioner they have an even more...
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    ROR Siberian Elm

    Figured this little cutie deserved its own thread. Started in may of 2020 from a seedling collected in Abq’s Bosque. 2020. Left to grow and set some branches with a pretty typical bonsai shape (which may not have been the best decision). It grew well as all elms here do. 2021. Unearthed...
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    Nursery Sabina 1

    This started as a House money juniper. It’s transformed quite well since acquiring about 1 year ago this month. Its variety is Buffalo but this nursery find has similar traits of European Sabina’s I see online. Drastic line changes, soft yet sturdy foliage (Doesn’t droop while growing...
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    Bonsai Corazon

    Hey everyone. I decided to create an Instagram account. I thought I’d start posting some fun little videos, Timelapse’s and other things I don’t necessarily share on here. I created this cool little graphic for the page. The page is called @Bonsai_Corazon Corazon was always my nickname...
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    Slab haul from southern CO

    Just got back from a camping/fishing trip in southern CO. On the Conejos River in the Rio Grande national forest. I left my phone off and away for the whole trip so I don’t have any pics of the site. Buuuut. While hiking back from a fishing hole a came across a an outcropping of these very...
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    Newer Insta page to follow

    Just thought I’d share this newer Instagram page I’m following. Most of the trees in it are not raw stock, but his treatment and elevation of them is top notch. Does amazing little drawings, Processes his own slabs, cuts up quite a few rocks and styles. A great combination of penjing and...
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    More big elms

    Scouted and chopped these Siberian elms last summer. I went and dug them this spring and they took much longer to push than most other Siberian I have. I haven’t seen bark on Siberian this color and density. Now that they’ve started to push growth it’s off to the races! Thread grafts will be...
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    Pacific Bonsai Museum

    In Seattle for a few days with my wife and oldest son. She’s letting me peel away for a few to see the museum. I told her it wasn’t absolutely necessary, but she was adamant I check it out. Ok honey, if you wish. 😂 Headed there tomorrow at 10am. Pretty excited to check it out. I’ll post pics.
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    Ulmus Parvifolia ‘corticosa’

    Picked this tree up August 2020 from Evergreen gardenworks as a bday present to….myself. I also purchased a seijen and a Yatsubusa. My aggressive repot killed the seijen, but the Yatsubusa and this Corricosa are in great health and progressing right along. In spring 2021 The Yatsubusa I cut...
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    First Branch Bonsai Web Store - SLABS!!

    Just saw a post from Todd Schlafer hyping his websites new web store! It looks great, and if you look at the slab prices you’ll probably be pleasantly surprised at how reasonable the prices are. Hard to find slabs that big, at that price. Has me very tempted...
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    My new shop and retail space grand opening

    Hey y’all. You may not know this but I’m a carpenter for a living. Going into my 7th year of business. I moved into my first commercial warehouse and showroom/retail space back in may and it is a big deal. I had always worked out of my garage. Today is my grand opening of the retail and...
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    Stand Build #12

    It’s been almost a full year since my last stand build. I was feeling motivated to get another going. That said, I build stuff every day for a living fortunately and while I mostly get to pick and choose my projects, they are not ALWAYS the funnest. I still feel lucky to do it. This stand is...
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    Tall and slender one seed juniper

    Collected this tree last fall. From the moment I collected it, it showed little to no signs of stress, and through this season threw out a ton of new growth, all of which was mature. When I potted it, I actually significantly shallowed the root ball and reduced its circumference. This thing...
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    Collecting in Northern NM

    Spent the weekend at 9000 feet with @Colorado on the hunt For spruce, fir, and aspen with 10 wilding permits in hand. Weather and company was excellent, colors were extraordinary, and the trees were plentiful. All in all over the weekend we walked about 12 miles and took around 25000 steps...
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    What the hell happened to this tree?

    Soooo. I was out checking my trees when I noticed that my Ash Group was very bare. Branches appear to have been cut all over the dam thing. Not a single branch is on the bench or on the ground under the bench. WTF. All I can think is that a bird has decided that these branches would be...
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    Inspiration at 11,000 ft.

    My family and I recently hiked to Williams lake about Taos New Mexico. Such a gorgeous and mildly strenuous hike. 2.1 miles up with 1500 ft elevation gain. It was wild seeing some of the mountain sides that experienced 100+ mph winds that knocked over entire mountainsides of spruce, fir and...
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    ROR Ficus Wiandi

    I’ve posted this tree in my other Wiandi thread, but I feel like this tree will only improve and deserves its own thread. I don’t have great process photos unfortunately so nows a good a time as any to start taking and posting photos. I started the tree 2 years ago from a rooted cutting and...
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    European White Birch

    Alright y’all. Picked up this Euro White Birch on a whim from Lowe’s. Would not normally buy a large landscape tree like this, but these things appealed to me. -I’ve been on the hunt for a birch for sometime. -the base, trunk movement, aged bark and low branching are all on point for a...
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    House Money Junipers

    As the title suggests, Ive started several juniper projects over the last 2 1/2 years that feel like “house Money”. No real investment per say, or even sentimental value with each of these, more an opportunity to push them horticulturally and through design. Several of the trees shared will...
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