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Inspired by @ColinFraser olive thread I bought this olive today. I had to cut it to fit in the car. It is by far the most powerful trunk I have, hope to be able to get something out of it. Wondering if I should repot or ground layer this year.. What do you guys think about it?

Got today this ever green Maple that is native to our region. My plan for this year is to let it grow and gain strength but I do have some questions since it looks like a not so common subject 1. can it be bare rooted? 2. How much root pruning can it handle? 3. I was thinking of cutting one or...

Any chance someone could help me identify this tree / plant by the leafs? I bought it as a hawthorn seedling but now it has leafed out it's obviously not one... Thanks

This tree was actually a root of my big pomegranate when I noticed it couldn't fit in the pot I just cut the root and plant it to see what would happen to it. well it sprouted and it is doing great. This one was repoted this year (maybe I shouldn't have) but it starting to show signs of growth...

This is the oldest tree I still have alive. I've had it for the last 4 or 5 years & it is starting to put on "bark" but I never felt it has the "vigor" That should characterize olives not sure why It was repoted this year (3 few weeks ago) Tree today I love the tree and feel it has...

This Pomegranate was going to be removed from a friend's garden last August, so I thought why not give it a try As collected First potting Spring 2018 Cleaning the suckers

Here is a hawthorn I bought in summer 2018 It is/was grafter so i made a cut slightly above the graft (for potential dieback?) and let it be for 2018 A few weeks ago, when the buds started swelling, I cleaned the root ball and repoted it Bare-roots Repoted I didn't remove any branches...

Now that I made my "introduction" again I would like to kick start with this Berberis I bought a few weeks ago (not sure which berberis kind ) As bought Bare-rooting In the new container & hacked back Looking for a shohin / mame size tree I feel that one of the 2 "trunks" should go but...

I've been interested in Bonsai since I was 17 years old o_O but was never really able to "stick" to it Over the years I bought, and killed, more trees than I care to remember but I like to think it is all part of the "process". Today, at 42 years of age, I want to give myself one more serious...

Inspired by Greg's terrific thread I'm gonna make brooms I am trying to develop my own broom starting from a small Chinese Elm cutting. The cutting was taken on April 1st 2015, and on the 10th of May it was looking like this What I did first was cut the small branch down I then used a...

This is a link to a French bonsai forum talking about a hawthorn http://www.espritsdegoshin.fr/forum-bonsai/topic.html?id=12658 the OP claims that between these 2 pictures only 7 months have passed he doesn't go in details about his technique but 1. it is NOT in the ground 2. it uses...

I have been looking for quite some times for a cork barked elm and I finally put my hands on one. The tree was bought on the internet and imported so I didn't have the chance to see it before buying it which is, I know, not ideal but I didn't have a lot of options. I got the tree on May...

I have received 50 trident maple seeds now which is a very bad timing I guess. Should I go over the stratification process I wouldn't be able to plant them before August/September so basically when the stratification should begin Should I store them and stratify them in a few months means...

I have 2 cedars of Lebanon hoping to train, one is in the ground and one still in nursery pot. Both are in, obviously, very compact soil. I've had them both for a couple of years (5 years in the ground and 2 years in the pot) and I didn't dare repot them since I know how sensitive they are on...

I love pyracanthas and I am working on several. I am opening this post after the proposition of October on another thread of mine http://bonsainut.com/forums/showthread.php?7571-Pyracantha-from-air-layer since I feel that the proposed virtual fits much more this little guy So here it is...

I got this wisteria from a nurserie that no one wanted because it wasn't tall enough I understand that, being vines, wisterias needs to be rather tall but, unfortunatly, the trunk is still rather skinny here :( anything I can do with it at this size ? (I really don't want to put it in the...

During a family picnic today I found this wild olive (very small leaves variety), it was lying there out of the ground, it was still green and, knowing how tough the olives are, I took it home back with me I cut a big root and potted it in a free draining mix

today chopped the trunk of my Metrosideros but don't know which branch should i pick as my new leader ? Should it be on the front or the back of the tree ? trunk at the base 3cm ~ 1.2 inch i want the "finished" tree to be aprox 20cm high, the chop is at ~ 10 cm is it too high?

Here is a boxwood that was heading to the trash and I got yesterday (i like its bark) I bare rooted it and repotted it today, here are some pics of how it was when I got it. I was amazed of so many feeding roots I was expecting big roots due to the soil it was in

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I got my hands today on a dying chinese privet the top 1/3 is already dead but the base is still green with only a few struggling leaves. Its owner kept it inside and, as you can expect, it was in a very bad clay like soil. I've repotted it into a well draining mix without touching the...

I am trying to do clip and grow on a pyracantha branch before layering it but I can't figure out how to do the cut so it won't show in the tree. I guess that the cut never really hear so there shoud be a "way" to do it so it doesn't show I cut a bit higher in case i need to cut again, any...

I already know the reactions that some will have on this post but I do need to ask so here it goes. Last spring I layered a large Pyracantha, the branch in question has no movement and no taper. Here is the part when you will told me I did wrong and I know/agree but I wanted a heavy/large...

I have found this big magnolia stellata at a local nursery it has, I think, a good nebari (or am i wrong) price is not much $50 usd what do you think ? would you buy it? do they make good bonsai ? this one has some potential ?

Here is a bougie I have repotted last year and I am submitting it here for styling ideas. I am wishing to do something rather small of it and I could really use some advice Here are the 4 faces as it looks today