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  1. Si Nguyen

    Wisteria

    Hi all. Here's a little blooming wisteria to brighten your day :)
  2. Si Nguyen

    Where am I?

    Let's play a new game! Guess where the tree is located in the world. No prizes. Just bragging rights. I'll start first. I can post more pics or info if people got stuck too long.
  3. Si Nguyen

    XXX Pretty Naked Bonsai Show XXX

    The 51st Annual Winter Silhouettes Show by Baikoen Bonsai Kenkyukai is on this weekend: Saturday and Sunday 1/17 and 1/18, 2015 10 AM to 4:30 PM. at the Los Angeles County Arboretum 310 North Baldwin Ave. Arcadia, CA Highly Recommended!
  4. Si Nguyen

    Satsuki Bonsai Club show in Orange County

    Hi all, there is a cool bonsai show this weekend (8/9-8/10) at the Bao Quang Buddhist Temple in Santa Ana. The address is 713 N. Newhope St., Santa Ana, CA. From 10am to 4 pm on Saturday and Sunday. Free admission. Hope to see some BNuts there :) Here's a picture from last night's set up...
  5. Si Nguyen

    Olives

    My little trees are kinda cute this morning. This is a variety of olive with small leaves. I don't know the cultivar's name of it. If anybody who knows, please chime in. I got these 2 olives from Chikugo-en in Gardena (in Los Angeles) 7-8 years ago. They filled in very quickly in beginning but...
  6. Si Nguyen

    A few photos...

    A few photos from So Cal I like this title from BrianVF's thread today. It is a little cloudy and foggy at my house this morning too. Here's some pics of my little backyard.
  7. Si Nguyen

    Ficus microcarpa Nitida

    The best thing to do on 9/11 is to take the day off and do some bonsai. So that's what I did yesterday. I pulled out some ficus and cut them back. This was a warm summer so they did really well. A few got weaker, but they will be ok after a repot. Redwood Ryan inspired me to contribute to this...
  8. Si Nguyen

    Collecting California junipers in Mojave

    Hi everybody, been awhile since I started a new thread here. Been too busy. Here's one for your discussion pleasure. 2 weeks ago 3 of us in the Orange County Bonsai Study Group went collecting California junipers. We went to the mountain desert area east of Mojave. It was a gorgeous day. Here...
  9. Si Nguyen

    California Coastal Live Oak

    Thanks to Milehigh and PaulH, I now know what kind of oak I have. It is a coastal live oak which was collected by a friend of mine in the Santa Maria area of northern California about 15 years ago. I bought it from him 5 years ago. I repotted it, changed to a new front, and chopped the top off...
  10. Si Nguyen

    Shimpaku junipers

    Hi everybody. I worked on a few small junipers this week. Here's the first shimpaku. I had this little one for about 10 years. Didn't do anything with it except up-potting it once about 5 years ago. Finally got around to working on it this week. These are the before pics.
  11. Si Nguyen

    crabapple fall colors

    Hi all, here's my contribution for some fall colors. This is all I got this weekend (other than some tropical flowers). This is a crabapple I collected in January 2010. I chopped it back a lot but not enough. There are still too many bad thick branches. I just never got around to picking a front...
  12. Si Nguyen

    Olive stumps for sale in Orange County, CA

    Hi everybody, I have 4 very large olive stumps for sale (about $500 to $750 each). They have great taper, going from a flat base of about 2.5 feet to a small trunk about 2 feet high. They are well rooted and ready for carving and a proper bonsai pot. I also have a few other large trees for...
  13. Si Nguyen

    Collecting California junipers with Mike and Ian

    Last week I was fortunate to tag along with a small group of 3 people on a California juniper dig in the Mojave desert, a place our club Kofu Bonsai Kai used to go to many years ago. Harry Hirao still go there I think. It is really different now. Much more developed. There are now wide open...
  14. Si Nguyen

    J. procumben Nana

    I took a picture of this little tree last night along with the other elms. I'd thought I show this juniper here too, eventhough it is not so great. I started this Nana juniper about 7-8 years ago by staking it up and twisting it around a stick. In April 2008, I styled and potted it, along with...
  15. Si Nguyen

    Chinese elms

    Hi everybody, I trimmed a few Chinese elms today, and I thought I would show them here for your reading enjoyment. Elms grow very fast around here. Here's the first one. It was started from a root cutting about 4 years ago. It went into this first bonsai pot in January2010. It is about 11...
  16. Si Nguyen

    Yamadori Potential!

    Hi guys, we have a massive urban yamadori potential coming up in Newport Beach. I am talking to a guy who is ripping out his entire Japanese garden with a ton of perfect pines and junipers and boxwoods and boulders. They are all free! The problem is there is too much and we cant pick and choose...
  17. Si Nguyen

    Japanese Black Pine

    I got this JBP from a friend who was dying from cancer. He had hundreds of bonsais, including some incredible California junipers and a perfect bald cypress and mostly excellent pre-bonsai material. This J. B. pine was really weak when I got it. After a year of feeding, it recovered quite well...
  18. Si Nguyen

    Prostrata juniper

    Hi all, I finally have some new bonsai work to contribute here. This is a prostrata juniper that I bought from a nice vendor at the last California convention in Riverside. Here is the original front of the tree according to the previous owner. This tree was worked on many years ago with Ben...
  19. Si Nguyen

    thatched-hut stones

    Hi all, I want to share with you my most recent suisekis, some thatched-hut stones (kuzuya-ishi). I bought them from a nice lady in Sacramento a few weeks ago while passing through on a camping trip in Northern California. These suisekis originally came from a very well-known suiseki enthusiast...
  20. Si Nguyen

    Satsuki

    Hi all, after seeing the beautiful satsuki azaleas from Kytom, Duane and others, I just have to show mine too. I don't know what variety mine is, but it looks awefully similar to Tom's and Duane's trees. It has few white flowers with pale green center and light pink spots and many flowers with...
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