Crab and mugo for local sale - Chicago

[faker]

Unable to ship these, but I'm moving and want to find a good home for them. PM me an offer.

Mugo. Trunk is 2.5-2.75" thick near base. Nice bark on trunk with some funky roots. Has been reduced to good branching options and is ready to get wired. Think it has good potential for a semi cascade with the left branch. Old branch knubs have been left on, so it has the potential for some deadwood stuff too.

 

[faker]

 

[Paradox]

Nice little mugo.

It has better potential as an informal upright with the branch on the right IMO.

 

[faker]

Crabapple "sugar tyme", recently chopped. 3/4 inch trunk and has a nice start to nebari (from cutting form evergreen gardenworks)

 

[faker]

Nice little mugo.

It has better potential as an informal upright with the branch on the right IMO.

Yeah that was my original plan, but I've been preserving both options

 

[BeebsBonsai]

Faker,

I don't know what you have gotten as an offer on the mugo, but I'd like to know what range you are looking for. I can't afford too much but I really like that tree. It's got the good bones that a great bonsai starts from. I live in the southwest suburbs so I am local to you.

 

[BeebsBonsai]

Tried to PM you, but apparently it posted here. Feel free to PM me the response.

 

[A. Gorilla]

Sorry, beebs. I braved the millennial labyrinth of Lincoln park and extracted the mugo last weekend.

You gotta strike while the iron is hot.

 

[BeebsBonsai]

Sorry, beebs. I braved the millennial labyrinth of Lincoln park and extracted the mugo last weekend.

You gotta strike while the iron is hot.

Darn. LOL. Well congratulations. As a Millennial, Lincoln Park isn't that bad. Now Wicker Park and South Logan Square? Even I am just like, what the heck is going on out here? Are you keeping the roots going around the trunk at the bottom, hoping they thicken into the larger root base, or are you removing them to get a radial root base?

 

[A. Gorilla]

I just snipped off the most pronounced circling surface roots and the stumps he was wise enough to leave last year, and I will do some clip and grow for the next two years.

I would like it a bit taller.