How many species do you have?!?!

BrianBay9

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Acer palmatum x 5 varieties
Olea
Trident maple
JBP
Ponderosa pine
Pyracantha
Beauty Berry
Quercus agrifolia
Quercus wizlensii
Quercus lobata
Coastal redwood
Dawn redwood
Grape
Ficus microcarpa
Ficus rubiginosa
Ficus salicaria
Ficus ingens
Prunus (cherry)
Ulmus americana
Ulmus parvifolia (x 4 varieties)
Winged elm
Cedar elm
Malus (crabapple)
Buxus
Silverberry
Zelkova

Might have missed one or two, but about 25 unless you count varieties, then about 35.
 

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1. Ponderosa Pine
2. Piñon Pine
3. Mugo Pine
4. JBP
5. JWP
6. JRP
7. Austrian Black Pine
8. Rocky Mountain Juniper
9. Itoigawa Juniper
10. Chinese Juniper “Old Gold”
11. Procumbens Juniper
12. Colorado Blue Spruce
13. Black Hills Spruce
14. Doug Fir
15. Crabapple “Prairie Fire”
16. Chinese Elm
17. Cotoneaster
18. Dawn Redwood
19. Bald Cypress
20. Red Maple
21. Amur Maple
22. Trident Maple
23. Japanese Maple (species, “Ibo Nishiki,” “Bloodgood”)
24. Valley Oak
25. Ginkgo

Tropicals:
26. Tigerbark Ficus
27. Benjamina Ficus (species, “Wiandii” or something like that, can’t remember the spelling)
28. Willow leaf ficus
29. Gardenia

...and an expert in none. 😂

Most of these I only have 1 or 2 of. None I would consider “finished bonsai.” Most are pre-bonsai at best. A couple are more advanced. I find it fun and interesting to try out different species.

Long term goal is to focus primarily on native conifers and a handful of other species which I find particularly enjoyable.

Top of my “to try” wishlist is Limber Pine and Larch.
 

BonsaiMatt

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Trident Maple
Chinese elm, x3 varieties
Japanese maple, x3 varieties
Hedge maple
Crabapple
American Hornbeam
Wisteria
Spirea
Japanese holly
Boston ivy
Juniper, x2 varieties
Japanese Black pine
 

Brad in GR

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Scattered but:

Pinus Resinosa - Red Pine
thunbergii JBP (on the way per @cmeg1 - thanks)
Mugo
Jack Pine
Limber Pine

Hinoki Cypress

Boxwood

Norway Spruce
Blue Spruce
Fraser Fir
Douglas Fir
Old Gold Juniper
Juniper procumbens nana

Northern Red Oak
Bur Oak
Swamp White Oak

Trident Maple
Japanese Maple acer palmatum
Sugar Maple
Red Maple
Amur Maple

Siberian Elm
American Elm
Chinese Elm

Ficus Nerofilia
Ficus Microcarpa

Dawn Redwood
Coastal Redwood
Bald Cypress
American Larch

Green Ash

Crabapple

American Beech
 

leatherback

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Woah 😳 They all look good? That’s the sign of a master. I’m proud to keep my trees looking great
Nah, not all of them look good. All of them are healthy though! But that is no challenge for most, I am sure.

Just checked. 42 species. Not counting varieties. :oops:
 

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OK, I am inspired by all of your neat lists and I will endeavor to create one soon. Now again, the po did not ask if these were to be bonsai, pre bonsai, sticks in pots or what. So most of what I have are small plants that I am growing out. Only a few dozen or so are in bonsai pots. This understood i have 61 species of outdoor plants. There are also a lot of cultivars, example about 11 varieties of Hinoki.
I tropicals I have About 21 species plus 9 different types of figs.
Just walking around looking and I realize there is at least a few more that I would have to add.
Yes, a nice clear list denoting species and cultivars is something to aspire to.
 

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Anyone on a budget is going to have a lot of variety. Because of the qualities we look for in nursery stock makes us broaden our search. “Beggars can’t be choosers”
 

pnwnovice

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Since I'm such a cheapskate all I have is pre-bonsai that I have collected from client's properties around me and 1 tree bought from a nursery on a 75% off sale.

The nursery tree is some sort of white pine (tag only said "dwarf evergreen")
Collected plants inclued:
Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum)
Vine Maple (Acer Circinatum)
Bigleaf Maple (Acer Macrophylum)
Red Alder (Alnus Rubra)
Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
Grand Fir (Abies grandis)
Western Hemlock (Tsuga hertophylla)
Corkscrew Willow (Salix ?)
Azalea (?)
Bitter Cherry (Prunus emarginata)
 
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Mine are mainly prebonsai and mainly collected as Im a cheapskate! also some airlayers,cuttings and seed grown, with about 50 percent growing on in the ground
This my current list but it will sadly have to be reduced by a lot soon as Im moving house and downsizing !
Amelanchier
Amur Maple
Birch
Cork Bark Elm
Crab Apple
Cryptomeria
Field Maple
Pyracantha
Dwarf Lilac
Berberis
Creeping willow
Douglas Fir
Kumetii Willow
Grey Sallow
Western Hemlock
Japanese Larch
European Larch
English Oak
Holm Oak
Southern Beech
European Beech
European Hornbeam
Myrtle
Escallonia
Fuchsia(3 varieties/ species)
Potentilla
Sawara Cypress
Mugo Pine
Scots pine
English Yew
Crassula( 5 varieties/ species)
Aeonium(4 varieties/species)
 
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Half of mine are still seedlings in this list.

Ulmus Parvifloria (chinese elm)
Syringa Reticulata (japanese lilac)
Metasequoia glyptostroboides
(dawn redwood)
Pinus Thunbergii (japanese black pine)
"Mikawa"
Pinus Thunbergii (japanese black pine)
Juniperus Chinensis (Shimpaku)
"Itoigawa"
Juniperus Chinensis (Shimpaku)
Acer Buergerianum (trident maple)
Acer Buergerianum (trident maple)
"Miyasama"
Delonix Regia (royal poinciana "firetree")
Ulmus Pumila (siberian elm)
Jacaranda mimisifolia (blue jacaranda)
Ficus Religiosa (sacred fig)
Picea Mariana (black spruce)
Pinus Aristata (bristlecone pine)
Acer Palmatum (Japanese maple)
"Katsura"
Acer Palmatum (Japanese maple)
"Kotohime"
Zelkova Seratta (japanese elm)
Tilia Cordata (little leaf linden)
Cryptomeria Japonica (japanese cedar)
"Black Dragon"
 

Gsquared

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Japanese maple
Trident
European beech
Korean privet
Hawthorn
Crabapple
JBP
JWP
Blue atlas cedar
Shimpaku
Itoigawa
Kishu
Mountain hemlock
Procumbrens
Shore/Lodgepole pine

Various accent and carnivorous plants
 

Leo in N E Illinois

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I only have maybe 10 trees in bonsai pots. A ponderosa, a juniper, several azalea, and a JBP

I have at least 48 species as "sticks in pots" - various stages of growing out in plastic pots, Anderson flats, at least 30 are in Anderson flats, and other growing out containers. So not "really" bonsai. I think the total is about 46, at least that is what I can remember.

Juniper Itoigawa, Kiushu, & generic Shimpaku
Juniper horizontalis - 2 varieties
Picea glauca densata (black hills spruce), Picea orientalis - Oriental spruce, Picea omrika - Serbian spruce,
Picea pungens - Colorado blue spruce - 3 named cultivars,
Picea engelmannii - 'Bushes' Lace' weeping engelmann spruce.
Pinus banksiana - Jack Pine- 2 named varieties grafted, & several seedlings.
Pinus bungeana - Chinese lacebark pines - several seedlings.
Pinus parviflora - Japanese white pine - 3 grafted named varieties and 2 seedlings.
Pinus ponderosa - have 3 from Andy Smith
Pinus thunbergii - 4 different cork bark pine varieties
Pinus rigida - Pitch pine - seedlings.
Pinus lambertina = Sugar pine - seed, not germinated yet.
Pinus strobus - a few seedlings for eventual grafting understock
Pinus nigra - 5 year old seedlings for eventual grafting understock.
Taxus florida - Florida yew, a rare species of Taxus, but basically looks like & grows like Taxus baccata.
Tsuga canadensis - 2 varieties
Chamaecyparis obtusa - Hinoki - 4 different cultivars.
Thuja occidentalis - 2 named from nursery material, one collected, and several seedlings.
Azalea - 8 or 9 varieties, 5 different named Satsuki types, and a couple no name types, and one deciduous type
Vaccinium corymbosum - highbush blueberries - 5 or so named varieties, only a couple in bonsai pots.
Amelanchier grandiflora - Serviceberry
Malus - named weeping crab - I did the grafting to create this one.
Chaenomeles - 4 varieties flowering quince
Celastrus sp. - Bittersweet vine - don't know which species, asian or native north american
Parthenocissus virginiana - Virginia Creeper Vine
Wisteria macrostachya - Kentucky wisteria - one of the two native species
Chionanthus virginicus - American Fringe Tree - have one male, one female.
Diospyros virginiana - American persimmon - have a couple grafted females, and a few dozen seedlings.
Acer tartaricum - Amur maple,
Acer rubrum? sacharum? - it is either sugar maple or red maple, small clump from farm.
Acer species not determined - a volunteer weed seedling in a pot of a tree from North Carolina - it has developed striped bark. now in its 5th year.
Ulmus rubra - slippery elm or red elm
Ulmus thomasii - northern cedar elm, or also called rock elm - recently collected, not positive on the ID yet.
Ulmus pumila - Siberian elm
U;mus parvifolia - Chinese elm, 2 varieties.
Carpinus caroliniana - hornbeam
Carpinus corieana
Ostrya virginiana - hop flowered hornbeam.
Ginkgo
Metasequoia
Ficus collected in Chiapas, Mexico,
Eugenia sp
Annona cherimoya
Ochna integrifolia - dropped its leaves, not 100% sure its still alive, they are deciduous, but only for brief periods.
Ficus pumila
Bursera fagaroides
Lindera benzonin
 
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