The Shohin Tree Thread

[Forsoothe!]

Seeing all these beautiful cherry trees makes want to see my crabapple in bloom! Just a few more days...
Grown from seed since 5 years or so:
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You lucky rat! You've got a pre-kintsugi pot. I'm jealous.

 

[Shibui]

A little English elm grown from a root cutting

 

[Adair M]

I gotta stop doing this!

 

[Shun]

Those are wonderful

Project satsuki azalea

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Little display...
Corkbark JBP in Syuzan pot
Tofukuji accent pot in bottom left
Trident maple in Ikkou pot
Accent of Erodium in Bunzan pot
Itoigawa Shimpaku in Bigei pot.

 

[Paulpash]

4.5 inch Larch from seed. Made it to honor a great Larch expert, Arihato, that has passed on now and used to post on a UK forum. I used bits of recycled aluminum wire - functions but looks a bit messy.

 

[Paulpash]

Another small one - a 5 inch high mugo in development from a garden centre plant. I think it was £7.99(10 bucks) from the rock garden section. In a year or two I can nibble back the roots and reduce the pot size.

 

[patrickawalz]

Shibui, I love your trident. Attempting some small ones with a lot of movement myself, but they are all newly wired seedlings... the obligatory photo:


Cranberry hibiscus

 

[erich_raudebaugh]

Hokkaido elm. The pot isn't ideal but I'm working on getting the root mass smaller and this pot was empty, so I used it. Blue is fine but a bit boring. I think it needs a shallower and just slightly wider pot. There are 7 trunks in this clump. This particular elm is so delicate that branches break if you look at them funny.
Fourth year in training from a nursery tree.

At almost 9" high it may need to lose a bit off the top, but I'm letting the main trunk extend a bit to gain girth. I think it still has a shohin feel though.

 

[Dav4]

Dressed for the weather...

 

[eb84327]

In development. I live in Idaho so I have to grow these under lights.

 

[eb84327]

Under 5". Two years old.

 

[Shibui]

Some early autumn thinning on my shohin shimpaku today

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This one started with a straight trunk too thick to bend. One of my early trials of splitting the trunk to enable bending.


This one is just over shohin height. While pruning I contemplated removing the current apex. The upper right branch would make a good replacement and would bring the total height don to under 20cm

 

[SantaFeBonsai]

 

[SniffingKrylon]

 

[Housguy]

Tim Barrett pot with cork jade in it. I keep this at work buy huge window to keep me company, lol.

 

[SantaFeBonsai]

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Princess persimmon in Shuho pot.

 

[bluesky]

Tim Barrett pot with cork jade in it. I keep this at work buy huge window to keep me company, lol.

Seems you and I had similar ideas!
Portulacaria afras are very easy to create a mame, a few months ago I made a semi-cascade mame and a mother-daughter arrangement that got out of control.
The problem with these as mames is they grow out too quickly.

 

[bluesky]

I gotta stop doing this!

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Hi @Adair M , could I ask you about your pot choices for these olives? It wouldn't have occurred to me to use yellow glazed but they clearly look good. -What was in your decision here?