raw material

Hi everyone, I recently acquired this huge kishu from a bonsai nursery near me and am having trouble figuring out how to get started with a piece of material this large and raw. I don’t see any substantial interior branching and most of the foliage is on the larger, much less pliable branches...

If you live in CO, I saw this post on facebook marketplace. Looks like this person has some land with a bunch of little trees that they're allowing people to dig up. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/555252235677834/

Hello all! Took a risk ordering this field maple online, was only one photo available, but was cheap and my first opportunity to try a bit of a beasty one! So the trunk is far from ideal, quite an odd shape! Almost quite flat? Hopefully the photos will show this. Limited movement and...