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Not a bonsai, luckily, but in a common lilac in the yard. The tree itself looks not too good. How do you get rid of them? Or is it easier to get rid of the tree that I kind of dislike anyway? If I get rid of it do I have to do something in order to prevent them borers to migrate toward another...

Not in my butt, luckily enough, but growing in my yard: It just started to sprout and its located right below the peach-tree of the neighbor that had bombed us with peaches at every stage of decomposition on our lawn all summer but the leaves doesn't look like those of the peach-tree. Does...

Hi there, Last year, as I was looking for a Ben ficus, @sorce suggested me to look on Craigslist, free stuff section as there were frequent announcements of trees for pick-up. More recently I told him I really never had any luck on Craigslist, some posts of interesting stuff for sure but no one...

Hi there, And sorry about that: I'm not speaking of a bonsai here but of the Chinese willow I've got in my yard, but as I'm sure some of you guys will know how to help I post it anyway. So it's a willow in my yard, it grows like weed. I have to trim it at least 3 times during the growing season...

Hi There, I went to the Midwest Bonsai exhibit this week-end. I was in a hurry and didn't have time to actually look at the show (which is much smaller than at the August exhibit's one anyway), I was just there to pick up new trees (little trees, my budget never allow me to pick up big ones when...

Hi there, As said in my title I don't want to restart the debate pro-pinch or an anti-pinch technique but I have 2 questions: - When do you do this pruning of the longest growths from the last season on a juniper? At the start of the growing season (i.e. now) to promote new buds during the...

What do you think of my lilac? :) Collected 1 and 1/2 months ago in our yard: :p

Hi there, Last August I bought a serissa at the MBS meeting: http://www.bonsainut.com/threads/my-not-so-little-serissa.20183/ It spent it's first winter in IL (it was born and raised in FL) like a charm and yesterday (hence in May following the planing given by @Mellow Mullet ) I did it's...

Hi there, Just back from our bi-annual trip to St Louis where we bought a Japanese red pine dragon eyes. This fellow is for landscape purpose, it's already planted in the ground, and we love it really! However the bonsai virus in me is acting up and I was wondering if this species could be use...

This afternoon I was chitchatting on another thread: http://www.bonsainut.com/threads/hey-newbies.23009/#post-346322 where I happened to mentioned a little Home Depot $4.50 nana I bought last year: This was in order to demonstrate my belief that even a cheap tree could be pretty cute...

hi there, Some of you may remember that last Thanksgiving I bought a BRT in Fl: Life was nice, more than 70 F end of November, the turkey was good and the Bears kicked some Packers asses on top of it. The Holidays unfortunately never last very long and on the following Saturday my wife, my...

Hi there, The time for my bi-annual trip to St Louis is coming up and I would like to take advantage of they low prices and taxes there to buy 2 trees: one for landscaping purpose, the other one for bonsai. Ideally I will be looking for Japanese pines, either black or white. Any good nursery...

Hi There, Last labor day week-end I got 4 huge junipers (chinensis I think) from my job. I posted it here: http://www.bonsainut.com/threads/i-really-though-i-wont-have-any-tree-to-work-on-during-the-long-w-e-until.20374/ This year on one of my thread another Nuts suggested me to follow the...

Hi there, My birthday is coming (which would mean Spring normally but not in Chicagoland where it's presently snowing :mad:) and this year my wife offered me my first real bonsai tools :) I just received then yesterday and now I am wandering the house looking for something to prune and some...

Hi There, I have a rather large (25 cm to 1 foot diameter) lilac in my yard I want to get rid of (and keep in a pot of course). The tree just started to bud and I'll prune it drastically. Is it the good time to collect? I was thinking: the tree is full of energy, I take it, prune it, pot it and...

Hi there, First of all I know that it's impossible to have a bonsai in the ground as by definition a bonsai is a tree in a pot. That being said here is my idea and question: We are completely re-doing our yard. We though about the organization of the yard, we contracted a landscaper to do the...

Hi There, Found this yew on the curb today. I know that's not the optimal time for collection and I don't know how long time this (not so) little guy have been extracted and let on the curb waiting for the garbage truck to pick it up but as it was still looking healthy to me and its free...

Hi there, My great-grand-father, and his father, were wood sculptors. Not like freaking Rodin or such, their art was to decorate furniture, like this: This is not one of their work, I found it on the web, but that the spirit. At the passing of his grand-father my father, also very good in...

Hi there, Some of you may remember, I beheaded my retusa last summer: http://bonsainut.com/index.php?threads/one-year-torturing-a-walmart-retusa.20089/ The goal was to remove a cluster of branches at the top of the tree hence improving its taper. I brushed the cut vigorously with rooting...

Hi there, In vacation in Miami I wanted to purchase a tropical, the kind I would have the worse difficulties to find in Chicago (or may be I could find but it will cost me a leg) I was more specially looking for a Brazilian rain tree or may be a willow leaves ficus. @Robert E Holt recommended...

Hi there, I'm going to Miami for Thanksgiving and I would like to take this opportunity to try to purchase an exotic that I won't find easily in Illinois. If possible I would like a Brazilian rain tree or some species of fancy ficus like a willow leaves. Do you guys know the address of...

But that the first time! (Not the last I hope :) ) This first one is a red sandstone and the volume (if the soil was flat) is 7" x 5" x 1" 1/4 Front a little bit higher And from the top then right side, left side and back.

Hi there, Last month I bought a little juniper procumbens. I did the structural pruning, some wiring and I potted it in a colander with some roots pruning too (approx. 1/4 of the root ball, at the base, photo #1). Now it is in very good health and grew a bunch of new 'spouts'? (I don't know if...

Hi there, Once again some landscaping work at my job, now is a complete massif of yew they are removing. For the moment they just chopped the branches with a chainsaw and did a pretty good job at it: more or less all green is gone. However there are still 2 trees with a little bit of green...

Hi there, It's been 1 year more or less I started to try to do bonsai and it had been an amazing journey until now, in part grace to you guys, thanks for that. :) I was thinking in doing this kind of thread to commemorate my 1 year anniversary (don't worry, I don't think I'll do that every...