Tree Memorial Thread (Trees you miss)

[Shogun610]

Hello, as life and Bonsai intertwine sometimes, part of that journey is the loss. In my opinion I put so much time and effort that when I did not do best I could even as someone as a student … I want to use my examples as a way to help others learn or get visibility to losses and not just successes / finished trees because the reality is we have all killed Bonsai trees.
1.Share some of your trees that you have lost along the way and miss due to whatever reason.
1a.If they died what you would have done differently today
2. If you sold them , has the current owner ever shared a recent picture.

 

[Shogun610]

I’ll start.
Here is a Japanese red pine that died last year from a very bad fungal infection. What I would have done differently is dormancy spraying which has since benefitted my other pines / collection in general. And I would have planted in a better container with more appropriate soil mix and container size/ drainage. I actually miss this pine.

Here is a Quercus Alba , native white oak .. it’s imprinted in my mind to redeem myself one day whenever I come across one like it . I was too aggressive with root work and should have used better substrate and tie down in this flat. It had such great potential, and I often think of what would be if I was more careful.

 

[BobbyLane]

One that I sold, first pic is how I sold it, second pic from new owner. I miss most of the trees I sold..

 

[NaoTK]

This is all I can think about reading this thread

 

[Shogun610]

This is all I can think about reading this thread

As a dog lover that video is actually very sad though…

But Ok it could be a pot too

 

[LuZiKui]

I've only been at this a couple years and have been relatively lucky that my losses haven't been too bad (knock on wood).

I lost this little cotoneaster to what I think was fire blight. It wasn't much but it was the first tree I bought specifically for bonsai so it was a bummer to lose it. Although, in the long run it will probably save me some time/money/grief because I learned I don't know enough to own a tree that is so susceptible to blight/fungus.


This bougainvillea is basically day-to-day, I'm hoping I won't have to add it to this list. It's a cutting from a bougie in my yard, I love the movement and think it would make a killer tree in just a couple years. However, we had a ton of rain earlier in the year and I think it stayed to wet and got root rot. fingers crossed!

 

[Bonsai Forest]

As a dog lover that video is actually very sad though…

But Ok it could be a pot too

I’ve lost 3 to cancer in my life. It’s the worst pain.

 

[penumbra]

My very expensive Ponderosa Pine is dead. It never grew new growth and candles never extended. I think it must have had an issue before I bought it this past spring.

 

[Mikecheck123]

I had this amazing wisteria mame that had a miniature runner. The leaves at the top of the runner were impossibly small!!

The next summer, thinking wisteria to be indestructible, I did a bare root repot into a pond basket.

It died so quickly! Fuck pond baskets!

 

[milehigh_7]

I'll play, lost this one that was off to a great start the specifics are foggy it was a really bad time in my life. That's a 12" basket.

 

[Potawatomi13]

This is all I can think about reading this thread

Thank you. Always breaks my heart

 

[milehigh_7]

I'm choosing to pretend Sarah has not been mentioned. I can't take that ad. I'll be bawling like a baby... Nope not gonna think about it.

 

[Shibui]

RIP 2020 - waterswept style callistemon


RIP - Japanese red pine

 

[PaulH]

Quercus ithaburensis - RIP



Dawn redwood - RIP




Sierra juniper I grafted with kishu - SOLD

 

[Hartinez]

Englemann spruce x2. Many losses from 2020

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Here are a few I miss.
Korean Hornbeam, imported yamadori
Japanese Red Pine from Brussel’s.
Imoorted Japanese Beech
Imported Japanese White Pine

 

[Apex37]

Biggest loss was this shohin buttonwood from last year


And unfortunately this year has been worse than last with tree deaths. Thankfully, none nowhere close to this nice, but a few are projects I was attached to. The positive side is I’ve definitely learned a lot with these tree deaths.

 

[Cenovak]

I, too, experienced an unusually high rate of tree loss this winter and spring. Many air trees I have had for almost a decade and never any trouble. Years of development and affection for each branch gone…ginkgo, old chojubai from Bobby, white pine from Telperion, and hackberry from Julian Tsai. RIP

 

[Shogun610]

Here are a few I miss.
Korean Hornbeam, imported yamadori
Japanese Red Pine from Brussel’s.
Imoorted Japanese Beech
Imported Japanese White Pine
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What was the causes for these ?

 

[LuZiKui]

I, too, experienced an unusually high rate of tree loss this winter and spring. Many air trees I have had for almost a decade and never any trouble. Years of development and affection for each branch gone…ginkgo, old chojubai from Bobby, white pine from TelperionView attachment 504463View attachment 504464View attachment 504466, and hackberry from Julian Tsai. RIPView attachment 504462

Dang that's a bummer! What was the culprit?