May 5 & 6, 2012 Sacramento, California 66th Annual Sacramento Bonsai Club Show: Sacramento Buddhist Church, 2401 Riverside Blvd., May 5 (12-5pm) & 6 (10-4pm). Demonstrations both days, 2 pm, by Boon Manakitivipart, followed by benefit drawings. Free admission, plant and tree sales.
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Tatarian honeysuckle
Walter Pall Bonsai Adventures15 May 2012 | 11:37 amTatarian honeysuckle, Lonicera tatarica, very interesting material. I have similar ones which are available. -
Cork Oak and Sloe starter tree help required..
BonsaiCHAT.net - YOUR Bonsai Community15 May 2012 | 8:11 amHi there. This is my first ever thread, so please forgive any mistakes! I have just bought a blackthorn and a couple of cork oak starter trees for future bonsai projects and am wondering what the best way to go about starting them is. These are the first trees I've had from starters and want to make sure I don't go about it in an inefficient manner. They are all 12-24" tall with trunks base diameters of 1/4 - 1/2" (picture is included in thread). The pots they came in are 3.5" x 3.5" x 3". I'm basically wondering whether I should repot them into larger pots this… -
FREE! Bonsai Wire, Scissors, Fertilizer & Other Good Stuff
Bonsai Bark16 May 2012 | 11:18 amFREE! These items are FREE when you order from Stone Lantern (and you put FREE ITEMS in the comments when you order). The more you order, the more FREE ITEMS you get. You must put ‘FREE ITEMS’ IN THE COMMENTS when you order. If you do not put FREE ITEMS in the comments, then you will not get any. DON’T FORGET! Shipping costs are not included in determining your order amount. FREE BONSAI WIRE: With orders from 1.00 to 20.00 (not including shipping), we will throw in one free 100gram 4.5mm roll of bonsai wire (photo is not a 100gram roll). … -
Air layering a Japanese maple
Bonsai Tonight15 May 2012 | 6:00 amAlmost a year ago to the day I wrote about a Japanese maple I’d taken on that was ripe for several long-term projects (see Restoring an old Japanese maple). I started on the first, an air-layer, this past weekend at a BIB workshop. Japanese maple I would have layered the tree last year, but I had just repotted it and I wanted the tree to be strong before starting a layer. Now quite healthy, the tree is ready for layering. Section to be air-layered The first step is selecting a location for the new roots and removing a ring of bark just below that spot. Bark removed Why did I choose…
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Boon Is Doing Two Bonsai Demonstrations in Sacramento
2 May 2012 | 11:58 pmMay 5 & 6, 2012 Sacramento, California 66th Annual Sacramento Bonsai Club Show: Sacramento Buddhist Church, 2401 Riverside Blvd., May 5 (12-5pm) & 6 (10-4pm). Demonstrations both days, 2 pm, by Boon Manakitivipart, followed by benefit drawings. Free admission, plant and tree sales. -
The Work Shops Are Filling Up
2 May 2012 | 11:45 pmThe work shops are getting fuller and fuller. In order to accommodate club members better, the work shops must for now be limited to Bay Island Bonsai members only. Some time in the (distant) future, when Boon’s work and travel schedule lightens up, there may be additional work shops scheduled. -
Members at BIB show on Sunday
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BIB Exhibit 2012
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japanese maples
8 Nov 2011 | 3:27 pmsango kaku Kiyohime
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Walter Pall Bonsai Adventures
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Tatarian honeysuckle
15 May 2012 | 11:37 amTatarian honeysuckle, Lonicera tatarica, very interesting material. I have similar ones which are available. -
new scots pine for sale or trade
15 May 2012 | 11:32 amScots pine, Pinus sylvestris, collected, old, 60 cm long, 60 cm high, can be made much smaller, for sale or trade. -
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15 May 2012 | 11:30 amEuropean hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna, very old, collected in Wales, this tree is ready for exhibit. 60 cm high. It is for sale or trade. -
At the spruce collecting grounds
15 May 2012 | 8:03 amWas in the mountains to see how the spruce are doing. They are still frozen. -
Mega-Sumo olive improved
15 May 2012 | 8:00 amThis super thick olive is wild and was collected last year. It has the small foliage of the wild ones. This is the first flush. In the future the leaves will become considerably smaller. Walter has improved the tree considerably. Now it's looking for a new home. for sale or trade for a reasonable price.
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Cork Oak and Sloe starter tree help required..
15 May 2012 | 8:11 amHi there. This is my first ever thread, so please forgive any mistakes! I have just bought a blackthorn and a couple of cork oak starter trees for future bonsai projects and am wondering what the best way to go about starting them is. These are the first trees I've had from starters and want to make sure I don't go about it in an inefficient manner. They are all 12-24" tall with trunks base diameters of 1/4 - 1/2" (picture is included in thread). The pots they came in are 3.5" x 3.5" x 3". I'm basically wondering whether I should repot them into larger pots this… -
Tiny Accent Grass
10 May 2012 | 12:36 pmHey guys, I went down to the National Bonsai Expo in Coventry last month, and came back with some rather small pots. Couldn't stop myself putting rather small trees and plants in these rather small pots. Here's a small ornamental grass that had self seeded in the garden a few years ago, I've resisted the urge to spray it off every time I've sprayed weed killer around the garden. It was actually quite a big clump of grass, but I split it down to lots of little tufts (replacements if this one dies), to fit it into the tiny pot. What do ya think? Cheers -Matt- Attached Images Grass Accent.JPG… -
Tiny Juniper :)
9 May 2012 | 4:28 pmHey guys, I went down to the National Bonsai Expo in Coventry last month, and came back with some rather small pots. Couldn't stop myself putting rather small trees in these rather small pots. Here's a juniper seedling that I had growing in a 9cm pot, This is my favourite one of the small pots, and decided it needed a cascade style tree, so the juniper got a quick root prune, quick wire and there it was. While walking to the waterbutt to water it in, I picked up a few pieces of slate randomly from the rockery, stuffed them in, stuffed in a bit of moss and hey presto! What do you guys think? -
Normal potting soil
5 May 2012 | 11:44 pmI have been trying to grow bonsai for several years frustrating myself and giving up then coming back. I have used several types of soil mix and never can get it right in bonsai soil. Now I look at my house plants. I grow them in normal potting soil and they live year after year no problems. If normal potting soil works for me is there any reason I should not use it for bonsai? My house plants in plan ole potting soil include English Ivy Ficus Schefflera Pothos Cherry Tomato Bougainvillea -
Contoneaster rescue
5 May 2012 | 5:33 amHi this is a contoneaster that i rescued yesterday at work. She was growing beside a fence and was pulled out by the roots by a co worker because we was clearing weeds from along the fenceline so i rescued it because i quite liked the look of it. So i root pruined it and repotted it and now it is resting in a nice shaded spot untill it recovers cheers Phil G :) Attached Images 1.jpg (97.5 KB) 2.jpg (99.7 KB)
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FREE! Bonsai Wire, Scissors, Fertilizer & Other Good Stuff
16 May 2012 | 11:18 amFREE! These items are FREE when you order from Stone Lantern (and you put FREE ITEMS in the comments when you order). The more you order, the more FREE ITEMS you get. You must put ‘FREE ITEMS’ IN THE COMMENTS when you order. If you do not put FREE ITEMS in the comments, then you will not get any. DON’T FORGET! Shipping costs are not included in determining your order amount. FREE BONSAI WIRE: With orders from 1.00 to 20.00 (not including shipping), we will throw in one free 100gram 4.5mm roll of bonsai wire (photo is not a 100gram roll). … -
Restyling a Mugo, Offing a Shari, Bonsai Tourists, More Bonsai Rafting & Some Excellent Events
16 May 2012 | 9:13 amThis old beauty is one of hundreds of quality bonsai that was featured at the 2nd U.S. National Bonsai Exhibition. It’s a Nikko Satsuki Azalea that belongs to The Kennett Collection. It originally belonged to Kunio Kobayashi who started it by planting smaller trees next to each other. The 3rd U.S. National Bonsai Exhibition takes place June 9th and 10th in Rochester NY. It’s not too late to sign up. Now half price. Order this collector’s set from the first two U.S. National Bonsai Exhibitions and save 50% It’s not a bonsai, but it is a sweet photo. It… -
Walking Around in a Daze & Shin Boku’s Open House
14 May 2012 | 6:22 pmA little piece of the Shin-Boku stroll garden. Two of the best tree nurseries anywhere If you’re ever in northern New England you might want to visit two of the best tree nurseries anywhere. Shin Boku and Baker Valley Nursery in Wentworth N.H. are home to some of the most wonderful specimen landscaping trees I’ve ever seen. The first time I visited Shin-Boku and Baker Valley (thanks to a tip from Doug Roth of the Japanese Garden Journal) I walked around in a daze. Now, after three or four visits a year for the last four or five years, I still walk around in a daze. -
Attention Bonsai Detectives: $250 Mystery Contest
11 May 2012 | 6:09 pmTree number one Here’s what you have to do Tell me something about each tree. The more accurate the information you give, the better your chances are. The two most obvious pieces of information you can provide are: who the artist is and what kind of tree it is. Or maybe you know something about the pot. Another useful piece of information is where you found the tree (that way I can verify the ones I don’t know). Really anything you know about the trees. What you’ll win First place: The person who give the most accurate information on the most trees, will win a $140 gift… -
World Bonsai Day, Fuji Bonsai & Putting on the Glitz
11 May 2012 | 8:51 amIf it weren’t for the three fingers at the bottom, there’d be no way to tell just how massive this Pomegranate trunk is. It’s from Fuji Bonsai (Roy Nagatoshi’s nursery) via Capital Bonsai, the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum‘s excellent blog. You can see the whole tree below. Better late… Looks like World Bonsai Day almost got away from me. It’s tomorrow and the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum is hosting an open house in its honor. My apologies to you and the good people at the National Arboretum for not putting this up sooner. The Glitz The…
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Air layering a Japanese maple
15 May 2012 | 6:00 amAlmost a year ago to the day I wrote about a Japanese maple I’d taken on that was ripe for several long-term projects (see Restoring an old Japanese maple). I started on the first, an air-layer, this past weekend at a BIB workshop. Japanese maple I would have layered the tree last year, but I had just repotted it and I wanted the tree to be strong before starting a layer. Now quite healthy, the tree is ready for layering. Section to be air-layered The first step is selecting a location for the new roots and removing a ring of bark just below that spot. Bark removed Why did I choose… -
Pine seedlings
11 May 2012 | 6:00 amI planted pine seeds again this year – black and red. The seeds came from Shikoku, Japan. It’s legal to import pine seeds – permits are available from the USDA - and the process is surprisingly simple. Once I got them home, I waited impatiently for late winter to begin preparing them for spring planting. In past years, I soaked the pine seeds in water for one to three days and then planted the seeds that sank to the bottom of the glass. This year, at the advice of a friend, I scarified and stratified the seeds before planting (thanks “Juan”!). Instead of… -
Shimpaku cuttings
8 May 2012 | 6:00 amA few months back I grabbed an armful of juniper branches from the green recycling bin at a Bay Island Bonsai workshop. I’d found both kishu and itoigawa shimapku branches and figured I could use them to make cuttings for grafting roots or branches. Although I’d made cuttings many times before, I wasn’t sure about what soil worked best to facilitate rooting or how long to leave new cuttings in the greenhouse before bringing them outside. An experiment was in order. I tested three different soil mixes outside and in a greenhouse. Despite poor experimental design and uneven… -
Bonsai pests!
4 May 2012 | 6:00 amIf you had asked me, two weeks ago, if my bonsai were healthy and insect free, I would have said yes. At a glance, they all looked great. Looking closer, however, I discovered that one of my pines looked dirty. Some dirt on the needles – this must mean… Aphids! Aphids are most commonly found on bonsai with tender foliage, but they are not averse to feeding on pine. Fortunately, they’d only decided to inhabit one of my pines (and I can’t begin to guess why they chose the pine they did as it was surrounded by other pines that were completely free from aphids). Aphids… -
Bonsai fertilizer – follow-up
1 May 2012 | 6:00 amLast month I began using tea bags filled with fertilizer to feed my bonsai. Unfortunately, it only took a few days for me to realize that this technique didn’t work well as implemented. The bags started disappearing immediately. Critters tore through some of the bags and carried others away completely, leaving behind the toothpicks that were meant to keep the bags in place. Somehow they removed all of the bags from my best trees and only a few of the bags on the developing trees – I won’t even try to solve that one. Instead, I’ll go back to my time-tested fertilizer…
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Crataegus Bonsai
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The Portland Bonsai Village Goes On The Road!
14 May 2012 | 12:08 pmThat title sounds like an intrepid traveling band, but no, we don’t sing. Or play, I think. But then again, if anyone wants Ryan Neil and I to sing, we might consider about $8,000 per minute. Although I can’t speak for Ryan, you might pay ME that much to stop. It would be an awful lot like a vocal version of ‘The Full Monty’, and that amount of soul selling comes with a lead-weight price tag. Ryan with his demo tree at the Portland airport. When Ryan and I realized we’d be flying down for the Lone Star Bonsai Federation convention on the same day, we booked the same flight for… -
Wisteria In Bloom! And Quiz…
30 Apr 2012 | 11:15 amAs a follow up to the recent post about growing wisteria, this is one in my backyard that is putting on quite a show. It’s a Chinese wisteria, and the photo is from last week. When I came back from the Texas convention over the weekend it was nearly finished blooming. Nuts! The pot was a prototype of one I made for a few years in the last part of my potting career. It ‘s hard to use, actually. Come to think of it, I made a lot of barely useable pots like that around the periphery of my usual work, exploring the boundaries of containers. Very few trees would work in this one, and… -
Juniper Grafting- Curious Results
19 Apr 2012 | 12:22 pmThis was interesting and seemed worthy of sharing. This tree, owned by a client, was originally Rocky Mountain juniper. It had some of the worst scale infestation that I’ve ever seen, the Rocky Mountain foliage was so covered with it that it looked nearly white from a distance. When we decided to graft on it I did warn my client that I was not sure of our success because the stock was weak. I think we did about 8 veneer grafts with itoigawa scions and 6 took. So we were happy and a bit surprised. What happened following that was even more curious. I should say that we did not graft to… -
Spruce On Nylon Board
7 Apr 2012 | 2:11 pmThe day after my Seasonal students left I was so intrigued by what we had done with the Mountain Hemlock from last week’s post that I put this Engelmann spruce on a plastic slab as well. While the first day with five students it had taken all day to figure out, I did this one by myself in only two hours. Knowing what the heck you’re doing works marvels. I also include a couple shotgun shots around my yard in this post— Engelmann spruce on nylon board. Closeup of the root mass over the nylon board. I hope the moss will eventually grow over the edge and it will be essentially… -
Mountain Hemlock On Levitated Nylon Board
31 Mar 2012 | 9:51 pmYes, that is the correct headline… bonsai on plastic. I wasn’t too sure of it myself. In the late summer of 2010 I collected this Mountain Hemlock, Tsuga mertensiana, with my friend Anton Nijhuis in Canada, and potted it in a strange box that was sort of cantilevered up because the tree had been prostrate, growing through the mosses on bedrock. Digging through the moss uncovered a rather curious twin-trunk base that seemed like it would have to be styled in an unorthodox way, so naturally I wanted it. A year and a half later the box was full of roots, and the time seemed right to…
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Entry: Logwood – Haematoxylum campechianum – Mexico
16 May 2012 | 8:21 amBefore Haematoxylum campechianum (Logwood) is a species of flowering tree in the legume family, Fabaceae. The old wood from this tree is extremely hard, one of the hardest I seen, the wood is dark red (haematoxilin is extracted from this tree) and that’s why it was called the blood tree. This particular specimen has a nice spuky (Yugen) feeling more like that of ferrytale books, which I would like to enhance to provide this interesting feeling and this is why I choose this tree. The tree will have a central trunk and a fist division close to the base. Currently it measures 120cm tall and… -
Technics – Correcting reverse taper, radical tree surgery
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Entry: Logwood – Haematoxylum campechianum – Mexico
9 May 2012 | 10:36 amBefore Haematoxylum campechianum (Logwood) is a species of flowering tree in the legume family, Fabaceae. The old wood from this tree is extremely hard, one of the hardest I seen, the wood is dark red (haematoxilin is extracted from this tree) and that’s why it was called the blood tree. This particular tree call my attention due to its interesting movement, heavy trunk and amount of dead wood that can be preserver due to its hard consistency. The two large chops have to be carved and the branches put in to an asymmetric two main canopies in slanted form. The tree will look much larger once… -
Entry: Black Olive – Bucida spinosa var shady lady or Terminalia molineti – Mexico
8 May 2012 | 9:41 amBefore Terminalia molineti var shady lady or as it is better know black olive or Bucida spinosa var shady lady. This species has a very strong lateral growth with a geometric growth that makes very nice pads. Due to this geometric growth the pads may look a bit man made. Almost to perfect at some points. Also due to the lateral growth the branches then to drop down, so for people in the north the growth looks more like that of a Cedar or some junipers in high mountains. Not so much like what some people are used to broadleaf’s (not all broadleaf’s have the same growing habits). I… -
Entry: Chintok – Enriquebeltriana cretinifolia – Mexico
7 May 2012 | 9:38 amBefore Enriquebeltriana cretinifolia or known to the Mayan people as Chintok. This species has leaves similar to that of Terminalia mollineti (previously Bucida spinosa) but the growth habit is quit different, the branches usually can go in all directions, making clusters that are difficult to penetrate. The tree does not have thorns, but the growing tips are sharp like thorns. However, I believe this species is very good for bonsai art, as it can with stand 100% root pruning and rarely show any die back of branches, it has an nice yellowish rough bark, and creamy looking hardwood. It is…
