Broadleaf division: Kanorin's Sweetgum

[Kanorin]

This is a volunteer that I found in my garden and put in a forest pot with some river birch this spring. Once the leaves came out it was clearly not a birch, so I hacked it back hoping to kill it.
But this little guy is a survivor and decided to throw a hundred shoots from the chop site.

So I tell this little sweetgum, "OK, you can live under one condition. You must battle it out with a bunch of other tiny trees on an online forum called Bonsai Nut and take top prize."
The sweetgum agreed.

 

[Kanorin]

Put it in its own pot and put some wire on it. This one might even end up mame size. I’ll try to get it into a smaller pot in a year or two

 

[BonsaiPoppie]

Well, I love it. Now it needs a name.

 

[Kanorin]

This one did great last year…and then it never woke up from winter nap
I think it was the 3 degrees F that we saw last Christmas (much earlier very hard freeze than usual)