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Hi all I watch quite a few Bonsai vids on Youtube and one of the chaps that is good with them uses one of these electric carvers, I kept looking for one and recently found one on Ebay so I jumped in and bought it!, It will hopefully arrive on saturday although I won't be using it for a while...

Hi all I attended the Bonsai Experience in Doncaster, England today, I had a table to move some raw trees on, Straight opposite me was a gent with a few trees, Some wire and a few tools.. I bought this grafting knife, A root knife and a brush for the paltry sum of £20! There is a name impressed...

Hi all I've had this tree since around 2005, I think I bought it from the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield (England) when it was a lovely stumpy li'l broom style, When it needed repotting it seemed that it disliked the medium that I stuck it's feet in to (Can't recall what the mix was) so it was...

Hi all Here's an Acer that I bought at a local Bonsai bash at the now defunct Don Valley Stadium some years ago, The twists and turns were already made when I bought it but it's grown some since I brought it home 👍 I took this pic earlier this year, We had some ridiculously hot weather for...

Hi all I'm afraid i'm not very good at Bonsai even after 22 years of trying make some semblence of the art! ☺️ I really like cascade style trees and had to have a go several times in the past although one Juniper had to be burned earlier this year due to the disease they become contaminated...

Hi all I was given this Juniper back in 2013 and had no idea what to do with it style wise- Fast forwards to 2020, I was furloughed from work (Asthmatic with copd) and was a little bored so I decided to have a go at something with it! This is what I came up with, I think it would be classed...

Hi all I've played guitar (Badly!) since 1999 when I went to college to learn and can't refuse another nice guitar so I saw this Reub acoustic on Facey marketplace along with several other rather mediocre guitars I enquired about it! I asked the price and really couldn't believe it when the...

Hi all Here's a Cotoneaster that I collected (With permission) from a school that was being demolished, It had been derelict for some time and the playing fields had overgrown with shrubs and trees!, There was an excavator driver on the site that lifted them for us, We gave him a couple of...

Hi all I went to the Bonsai Bootsale here in the UK yesterday (At Doncaster) and brought a few trees home with me, Three Cotonaster and a Juniper.. This was the dearest at £45, The pot was made by a local potter called Tony Remington (Been to his for a couple of Crescent pots before), The tree...

Hi all I went to the Bonsai Bootsale yesterday and brought four trees home with me.. This li'l Cotoneaster was £30, My pic makes it look rubbish!!, It's nice in reality but will need to get some more foliage next year so feeding will be heavy!! Cheers, John 👍

Hi all A few years ago my son bought a house that had a Pieris in the front garden, Straight in front of the bay window! They were going to dig it up and take it to the dump but I went and tried to get it out sympathetically saving as much root as poss, The shrub was over 12' tall, I had to...

Hi all I was given this Juni along with another bunch of trees back in 2013, I never knew what to do with it so it was left to it's own devices!! I finally sat and had a look at it and felt how stiff the bend was on the trunk, It moved but took a fair bit of force! Anyhow, I broke out the 6mm...

Hi all Here's another tree that's been overlooked for too long, I recently de weeded it and put some wire on.. I think there's a slight improvemnt, I put some Biogold on a few weeks ago and it's showing new growth now (Not in this pic though!, I took the pic before I put the feed on.. John :)

Hi all I've had this for quite a few years now and keep getting the urge to redude the size of the rock with my diamond wheel angle grinder then shaping it withabrasive wheels as it just always seems to large and like a plateau!! John :)

Hi a;ll Was given this whan my friend downsized home and he couldn't take all his trees with him! I had just trimmed it back before the pic and got rid of all the unruley shoots!! I'm not a lover of Beech, The leaves always seem too large and I dislike that they hang on through winter until...

Hi all This is another of mine that was neglected until the lockdown! I think there's 15 trees planted, It was so dense that no light was getting inside and weeds had grown right through the lot!!, I set about clearing the weeds and pruning it back some to try and get some shape and let some...

Hi all I've not seen this on Field Maples before, I just pulled this one out, It's around 30" tall, I won it probably fifteen years ago at the club auction, I just noticed black patches on the bark, A bit like the Verticillium but the bark seems to be coming away in small bits asit peels...

Hi all I found this years ago at a bootsale for a couple of quid! I used to use it for watering my smaller trees due to the soft spray of water that came from it, Unfortunately the rose came away from the spout and it was consigned to the shed! Fast forwards a few years and I found it again...

Hi I dug this Cotoneaster from a local school that was being demolished, The playing fields were overgrown with all kinds of shrubs, I brought two Cotoneaster, Two Lonicera and another ytree that has completely slipped my mind! This was the biggest Cotoneaster and for a couple of pounds the...

Hi all Had this tree for a few years, It's quite tall, I repotted a few years ago but it hated whatever the compost was that I put it in, It was so unhappy that the foliage was dying and it even threw a branch so I lifted the whole tree with compost, Made a box and lined it with sphagnum moss...

Hi all I love to hate these trees as they always manage to stab me in cuts on my fingers!, The needles are like little sabers going in so I try to be extra careful! This one is another that I acquired seven years ago, It came in the teracotta plantpot that it had been trained in, I eventually...

Hi all I got this tree in 2013, It wasn't in good shape, I repotted at some stage but never fared well until last year when I tried some Biogold that I got from Fleabay years ago! This pic was taken on the 1st of April 2019, It looked like this since I got it! This was the same tree on the...

Hi all I was given some trees (32 of them! 😳 ) back in 2014 when a friend was moving to a smaller home, It had less garden space so he couldn't take all of his trees, If I didn't take them they were going to the dump! 😭 This small cascade Juni was one of them, He said it would need some...

Hi all I'm hoping the wealth of knowledge on here can help out with a problem! I've had this tree for years and never known for sure which type it is so I went out and took a pic with my phone to find out on Plantsnap!, It said that the tree was Abies veitchii, It was in rubbish compost for...

Hi all I recently acquired a large portion of a local Bonsai growers collection due to him moving in to smaller accomodation.. Among the (34!) trees was this nice little tree that he grew from seed many years ago! A fair proportion of the trees are deciduous and as it's autumn here (or...