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If you haven't started watching Cobra Kai which picks back up with the main characters from The Karate Kid you definitely should (netflix). There is a lot of bonsai in the show so lets dig in; Miyagi and the actor that played him have died, in one scene Daniel visits his teacher's grave...

These are sold at Bachmans, a large local nursery for 2.99 and they divide just like your other hostas over the winter so thats nice. Really tiny foliage, maybe a consideration for a large s

Here is the newest tree to my garden, a gingko shown with my son Broderick who turned 1 a few weeks ago. The Gingko is a monster with a picturesque base. It is my second gingko bonsai and I love the species. I have a few fronts to choose from, been rubbing a few buds off that are too low and...

This is the 4th year I have had this orchid. I had almost 20 flowers this year. If you want a reccomendation of what kind of neo to get I would say get a falcata, they are the most vigorous growers and flower prolifically.

Ive had this Flytrap for 3 years I think now, it lives outside and decimates the winged invertibrates of my garden, last year I had an infestation of these bees and everytime I looked I could find dead bees in it's leaves. This year I wanted some seed pods so I allowed it to flower, it has...

Made a trip up North again in the beginning of May to collect Larches. My second year collecting in the bogs of Northern Minnesota was very good. I got a hold of a copy of Nick Lenz' book collecting from the wild, which has been informative (fascinating how he notes that in these moss bogs where...

I remember hearing about an artist in Austria who was creating a pretty wild tree related public art installation this several months ago when it was being installed. The bottom two pictures of this post are from a more recent article, do any of you guys think that a lot of those trees are in...

Here is a Black Pine grown from seed I bought 1.5 years ago from a longtime practitioner. It had apparently fallen off his bench and it just had 2 little branches and some fresh large cuts where he had taken off the top and side branches that broke. It didn't meet his long term plans so he sold...

I have been looking in the wilderness area I have access to and theres still snow on the ground up north where I plan to collect a few larches and more hornbeams but I am having trouble finding and identifying things around here that I may be overlooking. Anyone have any suggestions of trees to...

Someone in my club recomended parrot's beak as good bonsai material that is happy to live inside during our extended winters. One day during a moment of weakness I put Gmelina (i think its phillipens) and didnt really find much except for one on ebay. I put the minimum bid in and a week later I...

Has anyone used this species for bonsai? Acer pseudosieboldianum x palmatum ‘Hasselkus’ | Northern Glow® Maple one of those hybrids Japanese x Korean hybrids that can grow up to zone 4 (maybe 3) I do not see much info on them for bonsai but I am seeing them offered here at some landscape...

I go to my friends land it is zone 3a northern MN Theres spruce, pine, and hornbeam I am wondering what else I should look for, My friend says there are 2 Larch up there with 1-2 inch trunks but they are in a foot of water in the swampy area so I am wondering if theres any special...

I have some copper wire I bought a year ago before I knew how difficult non-annealed coppoer is to work with. I have read that it requires heating up to 700-800 degrees and then quenching in water ( I could be mistaken though). I live in the city and I dont think I woudl be able to have a...

got this one a while ago for pretty cheap and there are some obvious scars when theyre not covered up by foliage. At some point should I take a dremel to some of the bulging scar or should I be thinking in another direction maybe air layering I would ideally want to do it at the upward turn in...

Well since its winter and I am bored I wanted to make some pots that would look a bit nicer in the backyard than 20 different colored collanders. The smaller one is about a foot by 8 inches the larger is 2ft by 2ft and both are about 3 inches deep. I treated them with stain and then several...

Theyre just giving it away. Nice twin trunk conifer. https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/dak/zip/5324185249.html

A friend of mine has some land three hours north of me in 3b and a forestry degree. I said hey dig me up some cool trees I can make into bonsai a while back and he produced them at my door yesterday. We talked about what I was interested in and he said that he had in mind 4 varieties which he...

Hi and thanks for taking a peek! This is my second tree meant for bonsai I got and also second from a nursery. I went in just planning on picking up some cool juniper material for the cheap but this one plant out of thousands just called to me. I bought it at the end of July and as you can...