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    Post em' Up! Non-Coniferous Yamadori in the Americas

    thanks, appreciate it.
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    Post em' Up! Non-Coniferous Yamadori in the Americas

    Hi Vin are you asking about the cascade trunk? its a purple bougainvillea. best wishes, sam
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    Post em' Up! Non-Coniferous Yamadori in the Americas

    a few more bougies and junipers best wishes, sam
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    Post em' Up! Non-Coniferous Yamadori in the Americas

    some collected bougies happy holidays, sam
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    Post your Christmas Bonsai Trees!

    merry christmas from Kauai. Holiday banyans. best wishes, Sam
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    monster pink pixie bougainvillea

    Hello all continuing a post started in 2010. pictures today, November 2015. coming right along. best wishes, sam
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    Image Uploads

    thanks so much sam
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    Image Uploads

    first post in quite awhile. sorry my text and pictures are jumbled. I need to practice badly. best wishes, sam
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    Image Uploads

    kinda been distracted and lazy about bonsai for awhile. just starting to get back into it. trees overgrown and neglected. lots of work ahead just to get them turned around and headed in the right direction. working on some collected banyans first. some ictures with flash, some without...
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    guardians of the yard

    another larger chinese banyan yard tree. whacked back hard today. inside pot dimension 28 inches.
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    guardians of the yard

    thanks for the comments, all. for anthony. the larger measures about 25" across the roots and about 38" high. the other is maybe 20 "across the bottom and a little over 3 feet tall. both are far below their potential. pruning with hedge clippers doesn't help. age is only a guess...
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    guardians of the yard

    sharing two larger collected banyans kept as yard trees. pruned this afternoon with hedge shears some pictures. best wishes, sam
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    Backyard Bougie

    remove all rot down to solid wood. let thoroughly dry. if circumstances allow (without harming the tree), treat wood with torch to burn off fibers and harden wood. wire brush. apply wood stain of your choice or leave as is. when dry, apply wood hardener/preservative. teak or tung oil...
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    Backyard Bougie

    nice potential. stabilize the rot while you decide on the design you want and grow the branches you need. best wishes, sam
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    Seeking input about site upgrades...

    why do we have to log in every time we want to look at pictures? this is after clicking on remember me when logging in the first time. best wishes, sam
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    What did you do today

    what did I do today? sat outside and put wire on this root over rock procumbens nana. three views. out in the yard. in the garage, no light. in the garage, uplight. best wishes, sam
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    murraya paniculata as bonsai

    yes, on kauai
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    murraya paniculata as bonsai

    murraya is a popular bonsai species in asia. growers in taiwan, philippines and other south east asian countries create high quality bonsai from this material. while murraya abound in hawaii, primarily as hedge or landscape plantings, it is underutilized as bonsai material. here is one of...
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    starting over

    this is a story about a collected ficus with a decent trunk and taper with potential to be bonsai. the branches and canopy were left to grow wild until recently. unfortunately, I didn't think to take a picture before I started cutting things off, so the bushy tree below is kinda like...
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    The 2010 BonsaiNut Maple Project

    winner your maple is gonna be a winner someday. wish I could grow them here best wishes, happy holidays, sam
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    twisty bougainvillea

    for the red, need to pay more attention to the twigging. some too thick. have to prune, wire, to create more ramified and organized top. for the purple, grow, prune, wire, to create a small ramified compact top to compliment the nice trunk line. going for bunjin-ji style. best wishes, sam
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    twisty bougainvillea

    sharing progress pictures of collected bougainvillea; both with interesting trunk movement and the potential to develop into nice trees. best wishes to all for a safe holiday season sam
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    winter weather on kauai

    darlene, sorry. I gave you the wrong info about my pink/white bougie. its not barbara karst after all. I believe the variety is called miss universe best wishes, sam
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    winter weather on kauai

    no grafting. the red and white on the same tree is the barbara karst variety. actually the tree has three colors. red, white and white with red streaks. pretty cool looking best wishes, sam
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    design for the future

    2 months later the cutting continues to grow strongly. more and more usable branches are growing in the right places and are being wired before they become too stiff. there's a bunjin developing down the road. best wishes, sam
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