The Tree Thread

[wireme]

Ok here is a tree I own. 3 years after collection. Next two years I would like elongated growth and to repot.

Question, When placing your display post in the ground, are you securing it with gravel, sand, rocks, or some other method? I noticed the display post in the photos.

Thank you.

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What's the hector tape for?

 

[chicago1980]

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It was just to write my name and Mark the tree while at the nursery for winter storage. Nothing fancy.

 

[chicago1980]

Visited my Rocky Mountain Juniper. Collected by Sam Miller.

@wireme is the plastic bag a branch you plan to eliminate?

I'm ready for spring!

 

[Cadillactaste]

@abqjoe that maple in the first photo in the middle. Love the movement in that trunk! Very feminine looking tree.

This Satsuki came from Don...last year's blooms. It's not put on its show for me for this year yet.

 

[barrosinc]

@abqjoe that maple in the first photo. Love the movement in that trunk! Very feminine looking tree.

This Satsuki came from Don...last year's blooms. It's not put on its show for me for this year yet.

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On my bucket list an azalea satsuki with white and pink flowers.

Went on yamadori today (bad timing but they were being removed.



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[Cadillactaste]

On my bucket list an azalea satsuki with white and pink flowers.

Went on yamadori today (bad timing but they were being removed.

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Satsuki azaleas are addicting...I've two and one wouldn't have to twist my arm to hard to add another one that caught my eye. Hope you get that bucket list checked along the way and you get the trees you desire. I've not many on my list...a cool trunk with a URO...and a literati. Those be it...was wanting a clump then added the maple not long ago. Not here yet...but, it's either a clump/grove but it checks that box for me. Good luck with your collected piece. Keep us updated.

Thuja planting...in lace rock.

 

[wireme]

Visited my Rocky Mountain Juniper. Collected by Sam Miller.

@wireme is the plastic bag a branch you plan to eliminate?

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Yeah, last summer I kind of half wired it and moved a few bits roughly into position. Then I bagged the excess to visually cover it. Just trying to figure out if the design I had in mind was going to work out alright. I think it'll be ok, probably make some more serious moves this season.
This one below I collected 2014 or 2015.

 

[M. Frary]

Question, When placing your display post in the ground, are you securing it with gravel, sand, rocks, or some other method? I noticed the display post in the photos

Did you ever get this question answered after jumping through all the hoops?

 

[chicago1980]

Did you ever get this question answered after jumping through all the hoops?

No, never answered, but I guess the hoops & show are important.

I asked the folks at the local bonsai meet up and they provided me with direction.

Thank you for asking.

Rocky Mountain Juniper collected by Sam Miller. 3 Rd year in a pot.

 

[TomB]

Thought I'd post a before-and-after shot of a tree I worked on this weekend.


Before:




After:















(the gap between the before and after has been 13 years so far).

 

[zachkent29]

A shohin crabapple in development.
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In leaf...

 

[Jimdavis]

Acer that I air layerd and truck chopped last year

 

[MACH5]

A. Palmatum forest

 

[TomB]

A. Palmatum forest

That's an absolutely beautiful planting. It has a real feel of airiness and light to it. The vertical bars on the stand complement it perfectly too, and the pot is excellent. A very natural look, to my eye. I really like it overall.

Suppose I'd better add a tree, so at the opposite end of the spectrum, here's a stumpy little shohin crab apple in (re)development.

 

[abqjoe]

Here's a couple of progress pics of these guys

 

[BobbyLane]

Here's a Chinese Elm that spent a couple seasons in the ground and today i dug it up and did some structural and root work, its back in the ground again....

Before
IMG_2477 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr

After
20170330_140107 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
20170330_150302 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr

 

[abqjoe]

Once summer comes pretty much all of my Maples will reside here

 

[Nybonsai12]

And just about done.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Nice, NY! Here's my entire tropical collection...finally back outside last week.

 

[MACH5]

Nice tree Bri. You've done quite a bit with it! Its leaves remind me so much of a willow oak.

Arakawa with Sharp's pygmy behind.