The Bonsai Below Me - (Member photo challenge)

[KurtP]

Originally was a weaping purple beech, grafted on a green beech. Top died, bottom sprouted, put out good limbs. Got it real cheep, 15 years ago… Top trunk cut STILL has not healed, still visible…
Dave Degroot directed design…
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Brutal partial defoilation last summer. Cut back to two buds last fall… repotted this spring.
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Bonsai below me… is your biggest dissapointment / pain ( still alive…). { be honest,we all have one…}.
Bonsai On!

[Chado-ojisan]

This is a 2 year old zelkova that I purchased online in March. I got a Japanese larch and a kishu at the same time, my very first three trees.
The nursery I purchased this from is in California. I’m in inland Washington state. Between freezing cold and consistent overwatering, followed by a heat wave, it almost died. My last ditch effort to save it is the comically oversized pot. Live and learn.

The bonsai below me is a flourishing zelkova.

[NEBeech]

@Chado-ojisan No one has a flourishing Zelkova, toss something else out there !

[Chado-ojisan]

Okay, then the bonsai below me is the first one you entered in a show or exhibition.

[Jfurry]

Bonsai below me is a ponderosa pine

[Jfurry]

Ups or an exhibition tree.

[Fletch_173]

Here is my Rocky Mountain juniper which was exhibited this at the PBE, my first time showing a tree. Was so in the moment that I didn’t take a picture of my display so here is one from the tree on its bench and one from the PBE book. The bonsai below me is one that you hope to/ will be exhibiting soon.

[Jfurry]

Let see a ponderosa pine next

[LucasG]

This is a ponderosa I recently acquired from Bjorn. The bonsai below me has is worth a lot more sentimentally to the owner than it is worth on the market.

[Michel]

A small group of palmatum maples that I’ve been working on for nearly 10 years from seedlings, planted on a rock assembly.

Next one must have a beautiful bark.

[Makuen-amer]

This tree is a Texas ebony.

The tree below me is a sumo trident maple.

[Grif]

Still in development, but definitely sumo base.

Bonsai below is your favourite pot and tree combination

[SoCalNative]

I’ll play along with this one! My little humble procumbens that I can’t decide on a front.
I just did the deadwood work yesterday and need to get a new picture. But these are still recent. It’s in an Erin pot

The bonsai below is a tree that was on death door and has recovered

[Chado-ojisan]

I like the second front better, although some of that might be because of camera angle. It’s lower and closer in than the first.

[SoCalNative]

Thanks. It’s a little shaggy too. I’m leaning towards the second front too. Which is opposite of what I initially had it

[PattyO]

This is my Bald Cypress grouping in training for three years on my Balcony in Alameda Ca.
The Tree below me is a lovely flowering Quince.

[NEBeech]

No quinces to be shared. Want to try another one below you?

[Michel]

Perhaps a nice maple with its fall foliage ?

[Fletch_173]

One of my Japanese maples in peak fall color, the bonsai below me is the newest one in your collection

[antelion]

and below you you would like to see … ?