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This mountain hemlock was potted and styled from start to finish by Carmen Leskoviansky for Crataegus Bonsai in 2023-24. Collected on Vancouver Island by Anton a few seasons before. It was the first nice tree I added to my collection, winning it at the club auction. Below is the tree placed in...

Over the past several years, I have been working more and more in my mentor’s garden, and I plan to document that work here. I met my mentor in the club, of which she is a longtime member, and we fast became friends. She lived in my old neighborhood too, so it made helping out a lot easier. One...

Been thinking about doing a tanuki (Phoenix graft) for a long time debating different trees and styles. Yesterday I was at the nursery getting another bald cypress to air layer when I saw a weeping Norway spruce. I decided I would finally grab some of the sage deadwood I've collected, sat...

I’m great at taking photos, not so great at making posts. So I’m retroactively starting this progression thread for my Russian Cypress. I’m going to start the thread with 2 posts - photos/lessons learned from before and then another post with photos taken today. I got this guy in 2023 as a...

About s month and a half ago, I stuck about half of my Ginkgo seeds from California in some coco coir after refrigerator stratifying since mid February. They've been outside, watered every day to keep the coir damp, but not saturated. So far, not a single germination. Today I planted the rest...

Hi! New to bonsai especially to juniper in the UK. I had this for 2 years - put in a pond basket last Spring. It is vigorous but not sure how to take this further. It does not seem to have a lot surface roots and the flakey bark seems not pursued with junipers unlike pines. Please advice.

Hi - this is the last one and sorry for multiple posts. This is an interesting one - clearly was trained in a bonsai pot before but put in a nursary can later. The core is like a concrete- it was probably some types of akadama and then wrapped with coco coir. It was really heavy… I took out...

Hi! Thanks very much for your feedback. I have made some improvement to my HBR. Here is the dwarf scots pine no 4. Still have not figured out the root base- will wait till next spring. Any suggestion on future plans and feedback would be great. Thanks!

Hi - here is number 3- a bit challenging to find the root base this one … I also figured out how to stabilise the growth bag - dig a hole with soil mix then fill rather than the other way around- a lot easier this way. Shame - there is few air pockets I struggled to fill with this - it is in...

Hi - here is the no.2 - hope I have taken your feedback in mind.

This tree was originally collected by Anton Nijhuis on Vancouver Island. It came into my collection this time last year, and I repotted it out of its collection soil last spring. I had intended to do a top-down half bareroot, but the roots looked so nice that I basically treated it like a repot...

Hello all who's curiosity got the best of them and stepped into the Celtis Contest zone. Although titled for a specific species, I have aquired from Sheffields seeds a select variety of Celtis that caught my eye (and were also available to purchase from my trusted source). I have approximately...

Greetings fellow Earthicans, This is going to be my first progression thread. This super fine specimen arrived on a prominent spot on my ham radio desk via the distant lands of tropical Southern Maine. I put out a call for some Tiger Bark Ficus seeds which turned into cuttings and RJG2 was one...

I let myself get this. There just isn't any info on anyone's attempts to make a respectable bonsai with this China Doll type plant. Bought with the classic fake moss and superglued rocks from Home Depot 12/24. Pruned a bit and repotted same week I bought it. It is currently repotted in a...

Having spent some more time on BonsaiNut - I've learned the preferred approach for requesting beginner advice is to consolidate a tree into a single thread. This will also be useful for me to keep track of previous work / thought processes. So here we are. Part 1: Purchase I wanted to invest...

I haven’t posted in a while, but I’ve been very busy working on my collection and learning on the collections of others. I’ve posted this hemlock in various threads I believe, but nowhere consolidated yet. It’s not done, but I wanted to post this photo that I think demonstrates how far my...

Wanted to start some progress threads on my trees to share their progress and of course seek advice. This past winter / spring / summer I lost all of my outdoor trees and all but two of my tropicals. I was in and out of the hospital with some surgeries and my trees were not getting the care that...

Hey everyone, Over the past few days, evertime I've found time, I've worked on a solution for a problem I had laying arround in my head. Since here on bnut theres no option to print a thread directly, to store it as a file on your pc, to come back later and view it. I decided to create a...

Starting a progression thread for this spruce I got today couldn't pass on the price. When looking at it at the store I saw a possible good front. I removed just enough to see the front I like. I will let this get used to it's new home before doing any major work.

Someone in my neighbourhood had dug up a hedge of lingustrum/privets. The base is thick, and I definetly see potential if it survives some heavy pruning, which privets usually do. Plan is to remove all but two trunks in the spring, and create a double trunk styled tree. I will also prune these...

I figure this tree has evolved enough to warrant my first progression thread on Bnut, so here goes! When the bonsai bug bit me back in November of last year, this was the very first shrub I bought with intentions of making it a little tree.: Juniperus sabina 'Blue Forest'. Probably overpriced...

This will be a progression/diary thread for my two Junipers. I bought these off of ebay for what I would say is a decent enoigh price (£9.50/$12.15 each) in P9 pots - if you think its not a good deal, politely keep quiet about it, it’s the best I could do and seemed reasonable to me so I’m happy...

I’ve had this little spruce for a couple of years. I think it’s a dwarf Alberta spruce, but I’d have to find the tag (if I still have it) to be sure. It had a rough time and lost some branches when it was first planted in this very shallow pot a year or two ago, but appears to be on the mend now.

I’ve had this little mugo for a couple of years now. I think I repotted it into this blue plastic container last year. Here it is in spring 2024:

Started a second air layer on the parent plant from which the Arakawa #1 layer was harvested.