shohin_branches
Omono
My favorite thing is to just stand and stare at all three of my overcrowded benches while I drink my coffee in the morning. Sometimes I trim or fix the topdressing.
Little Pleasures of Bonsai
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FreshAirSunshine
Shohin
Same for me. Bowl of granola and cup of iced coffee on my porch after feeding them theirs
pandacular
Masterpiece
Since getting serious about bonsai, it feels like the days pass a lot slower, as I'm always waiting for something--it also makes me much excited for the change of the seasons. Usually, fall around here is rather gloomy, but it's a good time to get to work on my trees, see fall colors, put on vascular growth. There's just always something to look forward to, which is really nice.
FreshAirSunshine
Shohin
Little pleasure of the day - seeing pics from Nationals go up! Including this tree I’ve seen the last few times I was at NEBG. Not my pic though - was Dr. Lou’s submission pic I think. Taken at a Kaikou Study Group Meeting I was at! My partner, who doesn’t particularly like bonsai, did let me know she thought that tree looked nice. Good to know I just need award worthy trees 
JackHammer
Chumono
I find little surprises fairly frequently.
- My jbp did a lot of backbudding and grew like a monster this year.
- I have a big s shape tiger bark that I think looks really nice, despite the in-mouth vomit it might provoke from the bnut regulars.
- My mugos are doing well.
- I have a nice new big Azalea.
- I am getting better with my junipers.
- I got my lights all set up for winter tropical growing.
- my BRTs are putting on weight.
- finding things I did in the spring that I had forgotten about and now they are working and paying off.
... Just little things. I am here to improve and learn. If I knew it all, I would find something different to do.
- My jbp did a lot of backbudding and grew like a monster this year.
- I have a big s shape tiger bark that I think looks really nice, despite the in-mouth vomit it might provoke from the bnut regulars.
- My mugos are doing well.
- I have a nice new big Azalea.
- I am getting better with my junipers.
- I got my lights all set up for winter tropical growing.
- my BRTs are putting on weight.
- finding things I did in the spring that I had forgotten about and now they are working and paying off.
... Just little things. I am here to improve and learn. If I knew it all, I would find something different to do.
shohin_branches
Omono
Gathered all of my pots of temperate cuttings that were scattered around the yard and put them in the greenhouse. I'll repot them in the spring and give the extras away at the club picnic next year.
Michael P
Omono
During our hellish summer (multiple days at 110F) I was watering twice a day and putting white towels over pots and soil. The local anoles decided that my benches were the best place to be, with wet foliage to drink from twice a day. Sometimes I would find an anole on almost every tree. My favorites are the hatchlings only an inch log.
Cajunrider
Imperial Masterpiece
Buds!
bonsaiDerek
Mame
amazing recovery... i would have assumed that tree dead from the first picI had a big pleasure when this 1 flush EWP let go of the handle to deaths door this Spring.
View attachment 506379EWP gets a new pot today
Looking quite well dispite all the heat. Yet back East I'm sure the heat was not what it was here 115deg..... I'd not jin that right lower branch! It IMO is really necessary to balance the height of the tree! I also see this girl leaning toward the left with that branch as a counter weight...www.bonsainut.com
This was April, 2023
As each bundle of needles dried up and released, I removed them.
Today I posted photos of its 2nd flush this year.
Reminds me of the stem cell therapy my neighbor went through for stage 4 lymphoma.
He said they took him to deaths door with excess, chemo I think,
on his final treatment to stimulate stem cell production, since they couldn't harvest any at the time.
Well, hey, that's a downer for this thread, but it worked, and that's the relevance.
Here's pictures from yesterday
View attachment 506383 View attachment 506382
Millard B.
Yamadori
One of my favorite processes of bonsai is collecting new stock to work with, particularly out stomping in "winter" thru Bald Cypress stands looking for my next bonsai victim. On the 3rd Sat. of each January we have permission thru Treasure Coast Bonsai Society to access Adam's Ranch, a 58,000 acre cattle ranch to collect trees, only dug one last year that was nearly buck rubbed in two. It is so quiet there it makes your ears ring! A bull belowing afar, Sandhill Cranes singing, squirrels barking- no city noises! I thought I heard an electric sander running, turned out that the Florida swamp maples were flowering and a million honey bees were collecting pollen 60' up. Years ago they were tearing down the run down neighborhood in the center of WPB, we saved a few monster Bouganvillas and a big Jaboticaba tree. Next I enjoy making the initial trunk styling after living with the tree for a year or so. In summer of 2022 my good friend Allen Carver who owned Jupiter Bonsai was selling his 10 acre nursery and after all the buyers came thru all nursery related items had to be removed before the property could be listed, and all the half dead trees, pots, ground cloth,.... had to be put in 40 yard dumpster at $700 a load, Allen told me to take anything I wanted as it would reduce his bill. I moved about 300 unwanted pre-bonsai to my 1/4 acre property. At the end of July 2022 Allen passed. About 150 of the trees died from transplant / barerooting shock. Now when redesigning the survivors I think of my good friend! I'm taking a BRT that was one of the original six seeds sent to Allen's Grandfather Jim Moody to an all day class with Suthin next month!
