deadwood

Hi, I've recently bought a Portulacaria Afra from a nursery store. I am a little concerned about 2 things and I would appreciate your help/advice on them: ================ 1st question ================ The nebari was heavily overgrown with moss due to just being in a greenhouse. So at the...

Hi, I'm in south UK zone 9 and recently bough a neglected Acer palmatum over rock repoted 2-3 years ago on river pebbles? I'm thinking to continue strengthen it and repot in early spring on akadama and kiryu removing the fern but I'm afraid is beyond salvation! What would you do? particularly...

Fagus sylvatica

Ponderosa Pine dead wood. Mormon Lake area AZ.

Deadwood

On my holiday in Chalkidiki, Greece I found few very interesting pieces of deadwood worked out by sea. So I couldn't resist and filled all remaining space in the car with them and transported them all 1400km back home. Fortunately my wife has understanding for this. I include some photos of...

Carpinus

Trees in progress, First steps

Carpinus in Training

Collected this Abies concolor last weekend. I had seen it in the spring and passed it up because the buds were already opened. Here's the current front. Here's the right side. Something killed the top and everything on this side. There was new growth on that side in the spring, which was...

This is my first post on this forum, and I'm pretty new to the bonsai game. I got a tree today that I could use some advice on. It's a ficus (not sure what one), with a lot of deadwood on it. From what I understand, the deadwood has been untreated for a couple years and it still pretty solid...

Hello All, This pass week I have been at Yosemite National Park and I tried to take pictures when possible that some may draw inspiration from. Here are those photos: Root on rock, Crazy redwood Jin, Natural Clump styles Top that has died off and branch that took over.

Does any one have experience with deadwooding the top of a larch sorta going for the lightening strike look. Is that possible with these trees they are not very common where I live.

Last time I reported about these trees, I had just collected them. Sorry to say all but one died (thirteen total). This little one is the only survivor.

Hello everyone, my name is Joe. I'm pretty new to bonsai but I found this piece and wanted to get some adviceand ideas for it. It's actually a stump that's been dug up and flipped over. Thanks, Joe

Any imputed or suggestions? It's actually a stump that has been dug up and turned upside down.

This Juniper was actually in a round shape...problem was it was all dead on one side...seemed the previous owner had not turned in in 5 years! It was buried in 10 inches of soil, so i had no idea what the trunk or Nebari look like. Not sure if the other side will come back or if its all...