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Here is my shohin tsukumo cypress. It needs a bit of work right now.

A quick update to this Hinoki. I got it into a pot this spring. Other than that, I have not done too much other than some work on the foliage.

Hi All, I picked up a Zelkova for a long term project. I would like to develop this into something similar to Ebihara's and am hoping to get the opinions from those of you who have developed zelkova. It looks like the tree gives us a couple different options for styling. It could make a tall...

Hey Jered, welcome to bonsai! I was in your shoes a few years ago and really wanted to start out right and read and read and ask specific questions and I think that was very valuable. However, as I have learned more about bonsai I have realized that because bonsai sits at the intersection of...

Here are some photos of the museum/arboretum from today:

That ginkgo is part of the National Bonsai Museum collection. Here it was today:

Thanks guys, it is kanuma on top, but most of the soil in the pot is boons mix. When I potted it up, I did not have any Kanuma on hand so I used boons mix. However, when I was watching Peter Warren on Bonsai Mirai recently, he said that a mix of akadama, pumice and lava rock is not your best...

It has been a few months so I thought I would share a couple updated pictures with you all. The stump sat bare for about 6 weeks and then exploded with growth.

FWIW, Walmart's bonsai stock is also sourced and shipped from Brussel's bonsai and is usually a couple of dollars cheaper than Brussel's has them listed. For example, that trident is listed for $22.72 right now on walmart: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Trident-Maple-Bonsai-Tree/38363078

FWIW, I was watching a video with Arthur Joura, the bonsai curator of the North Carolina Arboretum, and he mentioned that ginkio's are one of the slowest species to heal over wounds and will likely never heal over big wounds.

Thinking indoor bonsai was a thing.

I got this black hills spruce from Andy Smith's burlap bonanza sales. He said it was collected last October and estimated it was 60 years old. It seems to be pushing lots of new buds, I am excited to see how it does recovering this year.

I picked up this hinoki in the fall of 2015. The guy I got it from said that he had dug it from a neighbors yard 3 or 4 years before that. It was in a plastic tub when I got it and I was hoping to leave it for another year and work on the top but the plastic was deteriorating so badly that I had...

Ryan Neil said he uses Smith's Penetrating Epoxy to protect the deadwood on his trees.

Hi, All. I am starting a thread for this azalea that I got on craigslist. Someone had dug up several of them and were giving them away for free. I only had the opportunity to take one but I grabbed the biggest one there. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of it before I started working on...

Ben, I tried to sign up twice for the bonsai auctions group to take a look at the hornbeam but the request was not accepted both times. Is this group not accepting new members right now? Thanks!

Thanks, Lance and Augustine. I have given it two light treatments of organic fertilizer since I got it and had read that weak jbp can be fertilized all year round. I am planning to make some pellets, I had recently seen the thread for boons fertilizer mix on here.

Thanks for the link, Vin!

Can anyone identify this species? Seems to be some type of apricot or plum tree? Thank you!

Thanks, Haoleboy. I am planning on just letting it do it's thing this year. Most of the buds do seem to be pushing so we shall see.

Thanks! I got it on ebay. I believe it came from the estate of someone who passed away, the seller had several nice shohin trees for a short amount of time.

I picked up this JBP on ebay last summer. Originally it was in a square pot but was broken upon arrival. The pot it is in now is one I had on hand at the time. Theoretically, I think it could sit alone on the rock without the pot. But there is a crevice in the rock (I tried to pull away the moss...