Hijacked! Dawn redwood i displayed this year at the CZ national show and got my first quality shot along with it 
The tree below is a multiple trunk fir or Elongator
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Hi, so I somehow stunted this thread but that wasnt my intention.
So heres a multitrunk nordmann fir from christmas tree material
Lets get this rolling again. The tree below me is an Oak, and a naturally styled one.
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Here you go.
Small Yamadori Oak collected 2 years ago and repotted and styled 3 weeks ago.
The bonsai below me is your favorite repotted tree of this season.
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This is my rose of Sharon squeezed into it’s first bonsai pot. I dug it from a clients yard 3 years ago
The bonsai below me is another rarely seen bonsai subject.
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This is a Amelanchier. I don’t think it’s often seen, at least in the UK.
The bonsai below me is just starting to leaf out.
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Here’s my prunus mahaleb second year of training after purchase as a raw yamadori
The bonsai below me is the most challenging material in your collection
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That’s a beautiful amelanchier. They’re native to my area and I’d love to find a nice one!
Just put a Norway maple into a bonsai pot. Second biggest pot I own. If never a great bonsai, at least I’m learning patience and technique… challenging! And its still alive!
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Explination…Yard volunteer 5 yo with interesting S curve. Put into pot 2 years, put into ground over tile. Chicken dug up one side looking for bugs… roots on that side died, along with the top 8" of the S cruve. Now, top and internal is rotted and hollow down to left mid base. Note the larg gap on left. Feature!
10 years, dug up, reduced roots by 2/3rds, into 28" sq. x 8" deap wood box. Repotted once in box and cut largest roots.
Yesterday, repotted into first bonsai pot(16x13x3" oval); box was FULL of fine roots, especially at large root cuts. Base of tree is 4"diam. 30" tall. Sawed a 3" root back ( for the third time…) to get into pot. Still one medium above ground root in back…Should be good to go… leaves have reduced by 1/3.
At least now I can lift and move the tree around…
Challenging?
Bonsai On!
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Bonsai below me is your largest (in a pot…)…
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@Michel what about the bonsai below?
Oups, sorry…
the bonsai below is more than 100 years old 
Pinus Sylvestris, Yamadori from the French Alps
This tree had a branch down low that I jined.
I took the end off and counted the rings, there were about 60 on an inch.
Extrapotatet to the diameter of the trunk the tree should be about 220-250 years.
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Sorry🙄the bonsai below me is a halesia in bloom…
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Is there no halesia Bonsai over there in the States?
There is a lot of beautyfull styrax Bonsai but no halesia?
So…the Bonsai below me is a Robinia pseudoacacia…
Oooooh black locust! I don’t have one but I am excited to see one.
I have a few Black Locust, all in development.
I’m in Portland, they are naturalized here so i would think I would come across one sooner or later. Have you collected any of yours? If so was it easy or are they touchy?
I have a few old locust on my property. They are runners, meaning they shoot out roots and suckers come up from those roots, some are over 100 feet from the mother tree!
I have air layered and dug, they all are thriving. 
I will say that this species, when mature, has the longest and strongest tap root I have ever seen. That’s a whole other story!
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Ok, it’s been a week so no locusts I guess. So here is one of my cotoneasters that is moving into refinement.
The bonsai below me is another broadleaf evergreen
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