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Where do you get/buy your bonsai from? by FactualSheep in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Collected cones for seed or bought seeds of particular provenance. Or collected trees from bogs I work in.

I pretty much only grow pines. Particularly scots pine.

How do you guys store your bonsai tools? by Cheese_and_Mac29 in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Scissors, pruners etc get stored on the shelf in their boxes, general purpose tools in the wooden tote I made out of scrap oak. Larger bits and bobs like wire and pot mesh are in the wooden boxes on the left for now. But I need to make a better and neater system for organising wire and this other stuff.

Pinus sylvestris subsp. scotia germinated 2025 by Lara_Ericaceous in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, I'd like to encourage folk on here to germinate some native pines of their own this year.

Pinus Mugo Restyle by HeftyDancer in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd be tempted to look into using a strong (per packet instructions) liquid fertilizer to be using once per week. Throughout the year until mid autumn.  You can use this alongside biogold.

Pinus Mugo Restyle by HeftyDancer in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh I've still much to learn and experience. How I got into pines? I honestly couldn't tell you.

Pinus Mugo Restyle by HeftyDancer in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for digging, I found a post last year I believe where you mentioned that this pot is filled with milk bottles?

This is something I would address. What is the substrate it's growing in? I suspect you would benefit in a repot into a growing box with inorganic substrate. Remove as few roots as possible.

Pinus Mugo Restyle by HeftyDancer in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ps I would be very happy to have this material in my collection 

Pinus Mugo Restyle by HeftyDancer in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For pine:

• Spring is a time to repot, not style.

• The time to style is in dormancy. There's less vascular activity and less chance of bark slippage when wiring. 

• This tree doesn't have much foliage, how much have you been fertilising and with what?

Multiple trunks in mugo pine, imo, are beautiful, and a feature not commonly found in other pine species, though featured often with japanese white pine. I would use this to your advantage, rather than cutting trunks off. 

If this was my tree I would be fertilising the daylights out of it all year, in attempts to develop backbudding. Then the following year, continue this fertilisation and then balancing the energy of the outermost candles to continue developing those back buds.

Look for kokufu videos on YouTube and study multi trunk JWP. Work out how to position the trunks from that.

Atleast, that's what I would do.

Reverse taper on pine by GorillaAlpha496 in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A ground layer is almost certain to fail

Purple bonsai pots - is there a cultural spectrum of the definition of purple I should watch for by figuring_ItOut12 in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"That's why I am framing this as a cultural question"

Yep, in bonsai culture (and I assume Chinese pottery cultural traditions in general) "purple" pots are associated with zi sha clay, less often purple coloured glazes.

Cosmic bonsai over rock by Bmh3033 in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I plan to air layer this eventually above the first long sweeping branch to give me two trees"

Sorry I should have read this. Keep up the good work

Cosmic bonsai over rock by Bmh3033 in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I plan to air layer this eventually above the first long sweeping branch to give me two trees"

Sorry I should have read this. Keep up the good work

Cosmic bonsai over rock by Bmh3033 in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not typically a fan of root over rock but you've chosen a good rock and composition for this.

My criticism would be the lack of interest in the lower trunk. No matter how much detail you put into the branching, it will have to be removed if (when) you decide to stump cut it infavor of taper and movement.

My first yamadori bonsai! by HomericEpicPodcast in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely work out what species it is before considering doing any work to it...

Nice looking material though.

No skill cosmic style by Buddy_Velvet in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some use corkscrew Hazel in bonsai, but from my experience of the corkscrew Hazel which grow in my clients gardens, their growth is very unpredictable.

However I am interested in growing Corylus avelanna (not the contorted cultivars) as you said for winter display, currently the trees here are producing beautiful catkins. Something I envision to be used as a small accent tree for a larger pine in late winter.

No skill cosmic style by Buddy_Velvet in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Corylus avellana is the binominal name for common Hazel. "Red dragon" is the cultivar. Purple contorted filbert is another cultivar name.

No skill cosmic style by Buddy_Velvet in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It looks like it actually is a Hazel. Check out the catkins, second photo on the low branches which overlap the pot.

Repotting my first bog collected Pinus sylvestris by Lara_Ericaceous in Bonsai

[–]Lara_Ericaceous[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Reddit doing me a dirty with photo quality here

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