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1 gal berberis - $10
Chinese pot with mar in finish - $8
Pimping your newly found and styled barberry potensai - Priceless...
Also following on Chris' multi-trunk thread, here is a barberry that I found nursery diving (similar to dumpster diving - you jump in head first, paw through all the garbage and crap that nobody else wanted, and hope that you come out with something that might be useful at some point in the future) last week with Jason. It was a landscape tree that was dug and put into a 1 gallon nursery pot full of clay, and probably sat there for a couple years based on the number of roots and amount of moss covering the entire tree.
Anyway, 11 sub trunks. Took everything down to new buds, and will leave it alone to grown new branches and develop over the years. This is a picture of the back, as the roots forced me to pot it towards the back of the pot and well, it looked pretty lame in that picture (well, lame-er, and let's be honest, it doesn't really matter anyway). As usual, the pic sucks and I need to provide a better one someday.
Please note, this is my first barberry bonsai, as I believe that the one and only good use of barberries is to plant them outside your daughter's bedroom window to keep her in and the young suitors out. Regardless of that strong belief, I did manage to grab this, style it and post it - in tribute to every noob out there that has done the same thing. I am now one of the gang. Truly Priceless...
Chinese pot with mar in finish - $8
Pimping your newly found and styled barberry potensai - Priceless...
Also following on Chris' multi-trunk thread, here is a barberry that I found nursery diving (similar to dumpster diving - you jump in head first, paw through all the garbage and crap that nobody else wanted, and hope that you come out with something that might be useful at some point in the future) last week with Jason. It was a landscape tree that was dug and put into a 1 gallon nursery pot full of clay, and probably sat there for a couple years based on the number of roots and amount of moss covering the entire tree.
Anyway, 11 sub trunks. Took everything down to new buds, and will leave it alone to grown new branches and develop over the years. This is a picture of the back, as the roots forced me to pot it towards the back of the pot and well, it looked pretty lame in that picture (well, lame-er, and let's be honest, it doesn't really matter anyway). As usual, the pic sucks and I need to provide a better one someday.
Please note, this is my first barberry bonsai, as I believe that the one and only good use of barberries is to plant them outside your daughter's bedroom window to keep her in and the young suitors out. Regardless of that strong belief, I did manage to grab this, style it and post it - in tribute to every noob out there that has done the same thing. I am now one of the gang. Truly Priceless...
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