Quote: "There are a couple of species of native North American maples that live in Alabama. None make very good bonsai. One can be wrestled (with special techniques) into pretty good bonsai."
"Swamp Red Maple (Acer rubrum "drummondii") has been used to make some very good bonsai, but those trees were created by folks with alot of experience."
RockM, the "special techniques" and "folks with alot of experience" leave me out at this point. I will look at the site, thank you for your time.
RockM, I am looking at the site now, this is very nice. At 56k it will take some time to view all the pictures but worth it. Thank You!
Quote: "Did I mention I hate snakes"
Snakes and sticks that look like snakes!
Tom, I had made the same statement to my wife that it look very "snakie" to get to the trees.
I grew up hunting in woods around here (wouldn't kill a fly now) but never got all the trees straight. My Dad on the other hand was a "Tonto" can track a deer by the movement of the leaves. And knows the trees very well, I will get him to go with me on a dig. We have a small track of land in the country that I can collect all I want. I like oak (have a couple of pencil size in pots now) but the pictures I have seen it seemed the leaves do not get small..?
Thank you both for your time.
Michael