Anyone into Bonsai around here? I'm not into it now, but I will be in 10 years, so I started trimming/growing some! haha.

Also where can I find a decent Bonsai forum/website!? I keep finding crappy ones

I have 2 12" canopy Junipers I trimmed up from $8 Monrovia bushes, probably 3 years old.
A cool Pine.
A few Olive trees I took out of an old ladies yard before I rototilled it.
A New Zealand Tea Tree, some other random roots I pulled out of the ground at random parks

 

Must be a coincidence! Recently, my girlfriend and I recently bought a bonsai tree and she put some copper wire to coil it =P.

 

Haha cool. I've bought about 30 feet of copper so far.

 

first place to hit up is the library...and look for this publication:

http://www.internationalbonsai.com/

that magazine has everything you need/want to know about bonsai.

 

I've got a dwarf schferra and a Chinese Juniper I'm growing right now... about a 4 months on the Dwarf and a month on the juniper.

Pics:

Dwarf -

Juniper -

 

I cant believe when i search "Bonsai" in SF i get like 4 results not relating to plants. Theres got to be a bonsai place in SF. Lone Pine in Sebastapol is the Holy Grail from what i imagine.

I have one of those in the first pic. I bought it 15 years ago when i was little, now it is 18" tall, 2" thick and has 5 fronds at the top...so wasn't really maintained with bonsai in mind but i'm grateful its still alive.

yours is gonna have a fat trunk it looks like

thanks

 

so despite all the searching of maps and websites for Bonsai in the area, I assumed Japantown would have a shop and they did. I went after school and it is pretty cool. Small but cool.

Im gonna buy some soil there by the pound, they do any kind of mix you want.

Good selection of pots, though kinda pricey.

Good Bonsai books there too.

 

Amazon sells bonsai plants!

 

haha yikes. Even if they had actual pictures i dont think i'd buy anything but seeds online.

 

linkers.... http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...eywords=Bonsai

 

I'll get some pics of our beast bonsai. Its so cool. Thanks to my grandpappy.

Just planted 2 japanese maples in pots yesterday, and 1 in the ground.

They sell a japanese maple specific fert by foxfarm. Comes in a square box

http://www.thewormfarm.net/images/Pr...omJapMaple.jpg

other than that im of no help, I just know how to admire them.

 

PICS! Actual size too lol.


I bought this like 15 years ago for my sister when she passed away, I just repotted it between the rock so I'm thankful its still green! The ugly pruning was done by my parents haha but its all good.











I grabbed a bunch of these off a hillside on Sky|ine. Yamadori = collected from mountians, wallet stay fat


I grabbed these from my road too. They will look nice if they make it til next year!




mah behbehs. Hungry fella? There ya go!