Hi my name is Dottie and i am new to the board. I have been into gardening for about 20 years and into bonsai for about 3 years. I have 25 bonsai consisting of:Maples,Elms,Wistera,Walking Sticks,White Birch,Weeping Cherry,Jade,Pomegranite,and Weeping Willows. I have a nice collection with all different sizes and shapes and are looking forward to meeting people with the same interests. Looking forward to learning as much as i can about the art of bonsai.

Thanks
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hello dottie, i have several elms.

this one is around 20 years old. i'm not doing nothing with this one, he is being happy under the shade and in a nursery pot.

Your elm is beautiful! Do you have any other kinds? I have just received a beautiful wisteria in tree form and it still has a few flowers on it. i got to get better at putting pictures on line. I am not very computer savey.
Thank you for posting that lovely picture!

Dottie

i have coupe black pines but i think my very best just die, i have redwood, and i just buy a young japanese maple on the nursery, lol.

i have many elms.

I would love to see your black pines! What size are they? Do you find the pines are easier to raise than the others? I have never done the pines myself but would love to try one. I have a few project plants going and they seem to be coming along fine. I am currantly doing some birch trees and a few weepers.

Dottie

Dottie I am interested in your weeping willows, did you purchase or harvest from wild??:questionm

Hi Wayne,


I purchased a few of the weepers from a local greenhouse as saplings (reg size) and have pruned them back small. 2 i bought as prebonsai from a bonsai supplier. I like them as you can do so much with them. One of my weeping cherrys i am doing as a cascade style, and i have 2 weeping willows (from clippings) a weeping pussy willow i got that from an ageway store this summer (about 1 1/2 foot tall). My weeping cherrys i get from my full size tree out infront of my house (pink flowers). I take snippings all the time and have a few more on the way.
I dont see a lot of weeping trees in most bonsai gardens but they are one of my favorites. I find them easy to work with. Although i do like get some of my subjects from the wild and have done some of the birchs collected some wild maples and oaks as well as weeping willows.

I have outgrown my greenhouse and are getting a bigger one next year lol.

Dottie

Nice collection of bonsai :)