Best original authors tree.

[Smoke]

This trident, still working this one



Posting this Shimpaku because I wish to see how it turns out. Still have to make first cuts. Done some chalk on the trunk to find a line for shari. Rach time I try I just wipe it off and make a new line. Eventually I will make the first cuts and make the shari.

All of my posts in this thread are my own work, I don't have a teacher.

 

[Soldano666]

Garden center ligustrum Purchase from 3 or 4 years ago. photo of the tree this summerit still needs work but I'm happy with it so far.

 

[Chuah]

Wakaebisu satsuki azalea: lifted from field grown gallon nursery plant in 2006, and with flowers in May 2016.

 

[Chuah]

Field grown American Hornbeam, chopped over several years to create the taper trunk

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[Chuah]

Chinese elm pre-bonsai from 1998?, and before repotting in 2013.

 

[Smoke]

I like that bark. Looks like a full size elm tree.

 

[Anthony]

Tamarind - found as a three pinnate leaf seedling - 1982
No image until 1989 - height 19 inches, trunk 1.75 inches, width 20 inches

Image with seeds and container is a 1/3 or less of a 55 US gallon black barrel

Old shot of it in a tidied US 55 gal,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Good Day
Anthony

Since I only water and weed I asked K's permission to show these. So Al won't get mad with me.


Height closer to 30 inches --------- trunk around 5 inches

 

[Anthony]

Gmelina - 1980 or so - grown from a cutting - apologies no earlier shots

Shrub is in a new pot today - no new shots
Good Day
Anthony

Also got K's permission.
right shot - styro box left - mica pot



in leaf

defoliated

 

[Anthony]

Just for fun - from cutting about 20+ years old Gmelina
Good Day
Anthony

 

[jeanluc83]

Burning bush

May 2013

August 2016

 

[Vance Wood]

I have long been an advocate of progression photos of your trees and your work. Here is something I have shown before, Porky's progress. 1988-02016. Purchased as a nursery tree at Bordine's Nursery many years ago.

 

[Vance Wood]

Zombi Mugo: Nursery tree from 1985 and up dated photo from 2013 prior to recent redesign.

 

[Nybonsai12]

I got lots of stuff developing from seedlings or very young stock, nothing worth showing yet, hopefully someday. And I also have trees that are further along but somebody else did the work.

This juniper is the closest thing I got for now that started in a can and now entering refinement stages. BNuts own October helped me with design, all my own work(feels funny calling it work though).

 

[JudyB]

OK I'll play with a couple, some of these still have a ways to go, but they're coming along.
Olive.

 

[JudyB]

BRT one of my first trees... this tree isn't a serious thing for me, it's just so I have something for inside in the winter... It got a cutback a couple weeks ago so is not as wide as I usually keep the canopy.

 

[JudyB]

crepe myrtle, a little stump I picked up on ebay, long ago. It had no branches when I got it, can't find a photo from that first year. This is probably the second year for it in the first photo.

 

[sorce]

this tree isn't a serious thing for me,

That is great!

Maybe you shouldn't take any of them seriously!

Sorce

 

[JudyB]

And Chinese Quince, really have enjoyed this one, another ebay trunk. First pic was after I chopped it, can't find the before chop pic... I have many trees that I've brought along quite a ways under my development, but most of them had more development before I got them, so will not post them here. I still feel that those trees are my work though. I think anytime you contribute to the betterment of the tree, you are adding to the line of work, and are therefore owning the artistic content.

 

[PaulH]

Sierra Juniper collected n 2008



At the 2014 GSBF convention.



Coast live oak one year after moving from 24" nursery box



At our club show.

 

[MACH5]

One of my favorites things to see is before and afters! Whether created in an few hours or several years. Some very nice and talented work here!!


This is an unusual Randy Knight maple as he seems to collect almost exclusively conifers. It has progressed nicely in just two years. Next spring it will be cut back and rewired once again. I'd love to get it into a highly textured Horst Heinzlreiter container.