Hi everyone, my name is Peter, I'm 55 and live in Helsinki. I have dabbled with the world of bonsai for the past five years, mainly indoor suitable plants, and recently moved house and now have a garden. The garden has opened up possibilities to outdoor plants and I'm excited to start but my age...
So I’ve been doing some collecting this year and I have found some nice Ashe junipers that I have my eye on. I have gotten a few out and can hopefully get a couple more into pots before the collecting season is over. Here are a couple I plan to eventually collect. Let me know which ones you...
So I was able to get permission to potentially collect trees from a pretty large piece of property near Abilene. I scouted the land for about 30 min today and was able to find some nice trees in that short time. I understand that Ashe juniper can be fussy trees during collection so I want to do...
Been working on one of my more developed trees and I can't work out what to do about this problem area:
As you can see, the trunk comes up, there's a jin on the left then a main branch close on the right, the trunk then instantly forks into two and the main trunkline continues on the left but...
On this tree I plan to continue studying the finely ramified, triangular canopy, shohin Shimpaku informal upright shtick. I want a twisted trunk and stunning dead wood to be important features, as if this were more of a yamadori-inspired tree. I am intending at least 3–5 years of further...
This thread will track my progression of Shimpaku juniper nursery stock into an informal upright shohin bonsai. I'm targeting a final height of 6–8 inches and I'm planning to grow almost an entirely new canopy. This is a multi-year project.
Obtained June 2015 in a 1-gallon nursery pot for...
For those of us that have procumbens (nana) junipers, why don't we all share some pics? I've seen a bunch in the forums, but I thought it would be helpful to have a thread to share info and pics with each other.
I recently picked up a couple Green Mound junipers. I thought they were just a...