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  1. grouper52

    "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated,"

    ... but rumors of my starting another book or two are true ... It has been ten years since Gnarly Branches, Ancient Trees was published, and Dan Robinson's inherent inclination to create bonsai that capture the wild trees seen in remote areas of North America has evolved, grown into an even less...
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    Trying to Post Some Rescued Tropicals

    Back in the PI after 18+ months, trying to revitalize several things .... including some of my old collection. Two at least died, the rest were largely near death when I got here, but I've been able start most back on track both horticulturally and aesthetically. LOTS of trouble trying to take...
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    Hey! Buy my best trees!!!

    Hey, all you bonsai guys and gals in the Pacific Northwest, or even elsewhere …. I am again closing down any sense of structured life - domicile and employment - to either do “rent-a-doc” work for a Locum Tenens company in the US, or simply retire overseas to live in a Buddhist monastery or...
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    As go the roots, so goes the tree.

    I probably should have posted this under my collection of "Resources" tutorials, but here it is anyway. It occurs to me, while out for a walk this evening, that some folks here might find my experience with a somewhat “off-the-beaten-path” approach to the use of fertilizers and supplements to...
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    New insights into the Marvels of the Hinoki Cypress!

    I've been back in the US now about a year, and am still in the process of putting my life back together professionally, personally, and financially ... and - as part of that process - having recently bought a multi-region BluRay player - I started watching this evening old DVDs I managed to...
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    And here Are a Few More

    So here are a few more ... Enjoy! 1. Threadbranch False Cypress, 2.Siberian Elm Clump, 3. Cork Bark Chinese Elm, 4. Shore Pine, 5. & 6.: Two views of a 3.5 foot ancient windswept Mountain Hemlock Dan Robinson collected years ago in a bog on northern Vancouver Island - recovering from a rough...
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    Current Stuff

    I decided to come back again despite the M.F. post that drive me away. Why? My small collection is just looking too good not to post, even though I have only the worst of photography set-ups at this time (by my standards at any rate :) ). Good to see most of the threads and trees and old friends...
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    Hi, everyone. For better or for worse, I'm back: very sorry for alarming everyone, and very grateful for everyone's support.

    I am sorry to have alarmed many here a few months ago. Darlene was very supportive at that time, and I'm glad she alerted Dan and Diane Robinson to keep an eye on me, which they did. My twenty year marriage ended with my wife convincing me to retire to her homeland in the Philippines in order to...
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    The 5 to 10+ Year Progression Thread

    I've been doing bonsai for about twenty years now, and am probably much better at it than I am at navigating the sort of extensive, expansive, and in depth web site that BNut has become. So I don't know if there is a general thread for old timers like me to post their long-term - 5-10+ year -...
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    Three Black Nights

    This first tree here is what is left of a tree I bought at a garden nursery in Bicol province about two months ago. It was a very lush and stately tree, and the only one of its kind at a number of nurseries we visited there. I asked what it was called, and was told, "Black Night", a name that I...
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    Two Slanting Bougies from Bicol Province

    Many folks here know I am not really interested in flowers, but don't mind working with flowering trees if they also make good bonsai. Well, Bougainvillea are some of the best bonsai trees here for sure: Easy to keep alive and grow, and often capable of wonderful styling with or without flowers...
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    My Growing Fukien Tea Collection ...

    As I've recounted before, one of my first interests in Bonsai was related to the Chinese penjing school of the Lingnan Province, in the south of China. The common species they worked with when using their clip-and-grow techniques for styling - Fukien Tea, Sageretia, and such - were not likely to...
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    Judy-Ann's Mulawin

    Soon after moving to Baguio up in the mountains north of the Central Plateau of Luzon, the main Island of the Philippines, we drove down into the lowlands to the south on our way to Manila one weekend, and alng the way there was a road-side, front-yard bonsai collection of great extent and...
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    Buchido!

    Well, well, well. This interesting little fellow is known as a Buchido. A previous, and much more grand specimen is the only tree I've managed to kill here so far, and at first it was a mystery why it died. As I find out, it was neither the climate up here in the mountains (since I only see them...
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    Two for Noel

    Our driver here as we get settled is also my wife's brother-in-law, named Noel. He's a farmer when not employed as a taxi driver or such, and has been fascinated by my bonsai work. About a month ago I took two tree's that I bought or was given when we visited my wife's family down in Bicol...
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    Crepe Myrtle Project

    Here's a pix of a little 12" high crepe myrtle I started working on about two months ago. They grow well here, and my wife got a large one planted root-over-rock that impressed me. I started this as a long-term project, planting it over a tile in a small grow pot until we get our house built...
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    Edwina - Also From Taiwan ...

    So here's my other Taiwanese something or other, a bit more of a feminine style, and I got this one about a month ago. It is still in it's original soil and pot, with wire tackle left as I found it for now, but I removed horribly dug in thick wrapped wire that left criss-cross scars with a...
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    A Taiwanese Something-or-other

    Well, finally my computer was returned to me, "repaired" I suppose, but missing lots of key software and such, and I spent about a week getting it back - only doing so after taking names as a preliminary to filing a police report, and then the last 2 1/2 days getting it semi-functional with...
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    No, I'm OK ... as if anyone was worried .... :) (A vanity post if ever there was one ...)

    Some folks may be worried that I'm deathly ill again with some Third World tropical crud, or kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf or something, but my lack of recent posts has to do with the fact that my Mac crashed two weeks ago, and couldn't be repaired or even diagnosed anywhere in the Philippines...
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    Orange Jasmine / Murraya paniculata

    I'm sorry: I can't resist the backstory on this tree, a spectacular Murraya paniculata (common orange jasmine) given to me several weeks ago, and potted up yesterday after I finally went down to Manila (to fight a three day skirmish with immigration) and bought a pot large enough and decent...
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    Another Chinese Popwa with entirely off-putting, rambling commentary - Read/View if you've got nothing better to do ...

    '... AND INSISTED IN THAT QUIET WAY OF HERS, THAT EVERYTHING HAD THE SAME RIGHT TO LIVE AS WE DID ... AND THAT IT WAS A BONSAI. Let me preface the below image with a lot of probably-not-very-coherent-or-relevant-to-anyone-but-me verbiage that may not be of very much interest to most folks: In...
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    Where and How to Find and Use the Ignore Function on This Site

    Hi Folks: Can you help me find how to put someone on "Ignore" on BNut? Thanks. I treied to engage admin in a "conversation" about this last night, but it was very late here and very early there, and no reply came for a long time, and I went to bed. Any help will be appreciated.
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    Another Malawi Cascade Starting ...

    Not much to say beyond my growing fondness for both the Mulawin AND Malawi material here. This beauty, a little over 6" tall above the pot rim, and chock full of just-lime-sulfured deadwood formations, will also be a cascade, like the smaller one I posted earlier. I got this one a few weeks ago...
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    Fukien Tea Literati

    As I've said in other threads, the Literati style is rapidly and unexpectedly occupying large parts of my mental landscape since retiring here to the Philippines. All last week I was on a one week jaunt to Bicol, my wife's home province down south. She's one of twelve from a farming family, and...
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    Starting a New Boxwood Literati - Join in With Your Input on this Quasi-Collaborative Thread!

    As do many bonsai folks, I find myself - in my mid-sixties - increasingly interested in the Literati style. The fascination with such bonsai is supposed to hit around this age, and especially in folks who are "Literati" sorts of people - the web is full of descriptions of who, exactly, these...
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