The Shohin Tree Thread

[Carol 83]

Mine have bloomed on and off all winter, except for one. Beautiful little tree, don't love the pot though.........maybe just me.

Oops almost forgot obligatory picture. New crape.

 

[vp999]

Mine have bloomed on and off all winter, except for one. Beautiful little tree, don't love the pot though.........maybe just me.

 

[vp999]

Mine have bloomed on and off all winter, except for one. Beautiful little tree, don't love the pot though.........maybe just me.

Thanks Carol! It’s a fun pot for a fun tree . I got like 6 of those pots in various sizes from Vietnam. It’s popular back there.

Chinese Elm.
Btw: How do you delete a post on here anyway ?

 

[petegreg]

Did some pruning today...

A young Rosemary from Tesco vegetable corner

 

[petegreg]

...two freebies Lonicera from mom's garden


I love this Pierre Rousseau pot

 

[SeanS]

Young shohin JBP bending

 

[badatusernames]

hokkaido elm that i think needs a darker pot. lesson that patina isn’t the be all end all

also a korean hornbeam in a bigei that may be my favorite tree

i gotta get a better backdrop

 

[badatusernames]

black pine in development. i need to get some cedar so i can make a proper stand for it.

 

[badatusernames]

Let's try that again. Not with MUCH more effort, but with a real camera instead of a phone at least













This one breaks the rules but I love it. I feel like it's shrugging away coyly or something. I honestly have no idea what to do with this other than kinda make a green triangle with the structure that is there, and simply just grow it out and thicken and then ramify it, so... it makes me happy, it stays as it is.


These two are pushing it for shohin but I can never find The Tree Thread, hahah







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[SniffingKrylon]

From cutting to..

 

[VAFisher]

Little crape myrtle. Beer bottle for scale only of course.

 

[badatusernames]

schefflera i just put a couple wires on

 

[VAFisher]

This beer is appropriate for working on bonsai - and drinking...

Shohin Chinese Elm

 

[badatusernames]

This beer is appropriate for working on bonsai - and drinking...

Shohin Chinese Elm
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That's the "drake" cultivar, yes? May I ask where you found it?

brb with my photo for the thread

willowleaf ficus

not sure why my earlier picture is warped ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[VAFisher]

I'm afraid I have no clue about the cultivar. This is the tree in 2014 when I purchased it from Da Su Bonsai. It was just listed as Chinese Elm.

 

[Mara of dragon clan]

Like “The Tree Thread”, this is a new thread where, if you comment, you have to post a picture of one of your Shohin trees (8” or less in height), in a Bonsai pot, and ideally in a display format. You can post the same tree multiple times, in different seasons, different arrangements, or with different accents. Please include pot maker.

Therefore, as we continue commenting on each others' trees, we post more Shohin trees.

I’ll start with this example.

Counter-clockwise from top left:
Corkbark JBP in Shibakatsu
Crabapple in Roy Minarai
J. Maple in Koyo
Accent in Bunzan
Itoigawa in Bigei
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Wow the composition on the japanese maple is nice, love the pot


Here is one of mine, a thuja occidentalis

 

[SniffingKrylon]

Most likely butchering the style but I really like this one, my niece says it reminds her of her and I. That probably has a lot to do with it. Lol

 

[badatusernames]

a bit of a mistreated azalea I’m going to try to rectify this year is starting to pop

 

[badatusernames]

japanese white pine i think will end up a cascade

i should make a progression thread once i work it

 

[badatusernames]

here’s the tree that drew me back into bonsai several years ago, now in a koyo. trying to see if i can regrow some parts and address some issues, but i really love the tree/pot combo and the picture really doesn’t bring out the pots colors