The Tree Thread

[SniffingKrylon]

Acouple trees I did a little work to today. Trimmed the buttonwood and defoliated and cut back the ficus a bit. Ficus needs wire but getting those leaves off was enough for me today.

 

[Kadebe]

One of the large bonsai traders in Europe is cleaning out some of his field.

Who?

 

[ConorDash]

Who?

Guess you'll never know, without posting a picture..

Ill trade someone, some berries for more leaves? Im good for it...

DSC_2371 Front by Conor Dashwood, on Flickr

DSC_2376 by Conor Dashwood, on Flickr

 

[Kadebe]

ok, my bad....

 

[leatherback]

Guess you'll never know, without posting a picture..

True story.

But I also found myself a more mature tree. A layered section of a yamadory Juniperus Sabina, which took up all the apssenger seat space!

 

[ConorDash]

Nice shorter Olive now.. It needs a nice new pot, Im looking...

DSC_2380 Front by Conor Dashwood, on Flickr

DSC_2384 Back by Conor Dashwood, on Flickr

 

[leatherback]

ok, my bad....

Ginkgo bonsai is doing some landscaping. Danny has been posting all sorts of fun offers on facebook for unrealistic prices. That he can still buy dinner, I am surprised.

A tiny juniper cascade I got from Will baddeley a half decade ago:

 

[Vance Wood]

It would be really nice if you could let us know what part of the globe you live on?

 

[Vance Wood]

gdy, that would be the infamous Randy Knight.


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What parrt of the globe do you live on?

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

What parrt of the globe do you live on?

Wouldn’t you guess North Texas? Wouldn’t you get tired of people trolling you to include a tree with your posts on this thread?

Ginkgo:

 

[Carkybones]

Olive purchased earlier this year. Pot broke while shipping so repotted in a Sara Rayner pot.

 

[Forsoothe!]

This is a Purple 'Rohanni' Euro Beech that I have had for 10+ years. It was small, maybe 12" when I bought it in a 1 gal pot. It had a weeping top and it's hard to find anything actually small in landscape nurseries. I don't remember what I paid for it, but I was happy to find a weeping purple Beech that small. It was just about ready to show in 2012, but the first winter from Hell intervened killed the weeping part of the top. The second year from Hell '12-'13, finished off everything from the ground-up. It put up a couple twigs and I just let it grow.

This variety has very slender wood which is what I admired in it originally, and I wanted to grow something to help it revive so I just let go for several years and wired it a couple years ago to give it some movement, but without a real plan. This year I let it go again, and just wired it for winter here...

There are two trunks, the right one in front of the left one. This is hard to see in two dimensions, but it's a pretty wild and intreguing design that will be made only a little more compact as it adds ramification withing the profile.

 

[TN_Jim]

American hornbeam -cuts, sanding, some paste

 

[Gdy2000]

Wouldn’t you guess North Texas? Wouldn’t you get tired of people trolling you to include a tree with your posts on this thread?
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Ginkgo:
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Maybe my favorite bonsainut subplot is watching @Brian Van Fleet correct @Vance Wood ‘s treeless pic comments in the tree thread.

Tropical class picture.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Maybe my favorite bonsainut subplot is watching @Brian Van Fleet correct @Vance Wood ‘s treeless pic comments in the tree thread.

Tropical class picture.

Good. I really don’t get tired of it. I only wish I had more than 2 trees to choose from.

 

[leatherback]

I only wish I had more than 2 trees to choose from

Stop by. I can get you some more trees!

Each tree starts with a seedling

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Stop by. I can get you some more trees!

Each tree starts with a seedling

I’m not talking about my 2 trees...

 

[TN_Jim]

@bvf, dafuq double vision


beneath the clothes, we find a man. beneath the man, we find, his...nucleus
-nacho

 

[TomB]

Autumn colour starting to appear on this English elm. Just need a bit of cold weather to make it show its best, rather than the constant rain we currently have.

 

[Forsoothe!]

English Oak is slow growing. You plant them and then clean them up once a year and wire a little and go on to next year. It is the archetype of a, "Wait until next year" tree. Here's a forest planted in 2013 of saplings 4 or 5 years old given to me by a friend. 5 of the trees were killed to the ground and sprouted suckers over the years giving me variety in sizes that I could have done without. It has been so unremarkable that I don't have any photos to speak of until now. Here it is earlier today...

You can see the stubs & suckers don't do much for picturesque, but you have to roll with the punches and do your yearly stuff, year after year and one day, presto!, all the ducks suddenly get in a row and all the parts are there to wire into what you pictured in your mind's eye...

I'm looking forward to next spring!