Did you get any bonsai related gifts for Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Festivus etc..

[Nybonsai12]

I got 9 rolls of wire and 32 ounces of liquid fertilizer. I bought a golden atlas cedar from Evergreen Gardenworks a few weeks ago too which I started a thread on which was kind of a gift to myself.

So how bout it, did you get anything? Feel free to post up pics!

 

[NewWorldBonsai]

I got work uniforms. I also bought the Terrier bit from Kaizen Bonsai. I am interested to see how it works. It looks awesome, I hope it's worth it I needed a new carving bit anyhow...

 

[Poink88]

I have been buying bonsai stuff the entire year but for this month I got...
- Naka's Bonsai Techniques I & II
- The Bonsai Art of Kimura (book #1...my #2 was lonely)
- A nice Thermostat and extra/backup 100ft deicing cable
- several "cheap' carving bits
- extra Branch benders
- a 13" Tokoname Pot
- Bonsai Today #11 & #13 (still hunting for 8 issues)
- a cheap "reject" garden stock olive tree in 15 gallon pot.

...all gifts for myself

Would you believe the olive tree is the cheapest of those listed above?

I forgot...I also bought some military surplus (extreme cold & wet weather system-ECWS) socks, long johns (top and bottom) and jackets specifically so I can work outside w/o getting too cold...on the few days we have sub-zero weather here. LOL

 

[GrimLore]

I got a Fiskars 10" Power Tooth folding saw for my upcoming air-layer projects in the Spring, everything else I got for Christmas was either Black Leather, Dark Chocolate, or JD except for one hella nice sweater

 

[Neli]

My workers brought me each a stone and a drift wood for Xmass /burthday...on the 25.12.
They can not afford expensive things, but know what I like, and it was nice of them.

 

[davetree]

Bought myself a couple of small trident maples as a present to myself. I am recently divorced and can now practice bonsai without retribution, which is the best gift of all.

 

[DesertPanda]

The wife got me a 45 gallon terarrium for the small tropicals along with a very nice grow light for it.

 

[Dan W.]

I received money to put toward my upcoming bonsai education with Michael Hagedron

 

[nathanbs]

On my way to a large local nursery to buy materials to build a few "gifts" I stopped at a fast food joint to get a breakfast burrito and when I got out of my car I noticed a sweet fig tree amongst the 4' tall Natal Plum hedge. It stuck out like a sore thumb as it is a large fig, you know the one with leafs big enough to cover Adams groin in all the paintings. I admired it and then went and ate but couldn't stop trying to figure out how I would acquire this thing. On my way back to take another look before leaving an older gentleman was pruning the hedge and the fig specifically so I asked him what he thought about this tree that was ruining his hedge and he replied that he wanted to get rid of it. Did I hear him correctly? Sweet! So I offered to replace it with a natal plum, which he gladly agreed. Perfect as I was on my way to the nursery already. The nursery has a ton of bonsai related stuff (There may have been a time where this was the go to for bonsai enthusiasts but it is way over due for an update). I grabbed my natal plums(there's actually 2 figs but I think the second is not worth collecting), a small pomegranate, a very cool succulent that looked like a tree, perfect for my girlfriends sister that is insisting on more of an indoor bonsai with filtered sun, and then went to grab some pots for the two "gifts" when I stumbled upon some very cool antique looking chinese pots. They may be 20-30 years old, its hard for me to tell, but they look great so I grabbed all 3 of them. I will post pics of pots and tree or trees later when I dig them up in a week or so. So those are my very unexpected gifts to myself and from a cool restaurant owner pruning his own hedge in the parking lot.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

A few pots, one I'm particularly excited about:

 

[edprocoat]

I got some sand in my eye and a lump of coal, I guess they could be used for Bonsai ...


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[jkd2572]

I got a few pots for myself.

 

[milehigh_7]

Got nothing this year... it has been a slim one at my house. Better luck next year.

 

[BigDave]

Good for you

My workers brought me each a stone and a drift wood for Xmass /burthday...on the 25.12.
They can not afford expensive things, but know what I like, and it was nice of them.

You are easy to buy for, Wish my lady would go for a rock and piece of driftwood, that would have got me the cold shoulder for sometime...

 

[BigDave]

Bought myself a couple of small trident maples as a present to myself. I am recently divorced and can now practice bonsai without retribution, which is the best gift of all.

I believe all Daves should have a descriptive prefix to their name, yours is now

FreeDave

good for you,

bigDave

 

[nathanbs]

heres 2 of the 3 fairly identical chinese pots I came across just before Xmas that I gifted to myself

 

[Waldo Street Pottery]

I received a pair of Ryuga concave cutters from my MiL. Stoked.

 

[Nybonsai12]

Nice pots Nathan.
And home team, that is pretty awesome of your MIL to get you something like that. Does she do bonsai?

 

[darkwaterdevil]

I got the new aerogarden ultra

 

[Stan Kengai]

I got some good stuff for Christmas: Adams's "Bonsai with Japanese maples", a Chuck Iker pot, a turntable, and a couple half kilos of wire (sexy, I know). The only thing I didn't buy myself was the turntable.

The really good stuff came for my birthday, which was yesterday. Saturday, my wife let me go to Plant City . . . wait for it . . . wait for it . . . BY MYSELF. No 7 year old ready to leave after 5 minutes and bored to destruction after 15. No wife saying "you're going to pay how much for that little thing!?" It. Was. AWESOME! I ended up staying for about 3 hours, and I looked at almost everything, even the tropicals I'd never buy. I got a sweet crab apple, a shohin trident trunk with nice basal flare, and a flowering quince (cultivar unknown) with a 2.5" fused root base and nice marbled pink flowers. Pictures to come when I get some time.

Hope everyone's birthday is as good as mine.