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Gee...now I don't feel quite so bad. I've been into the bonsai thing for about 2 1/2 years now, and have lost more trees than I care to think about...but, here goes.

1 Sawara Cypress (don't know what happened)
1 Stewartia (got infested with white flies, and I think I over treated it)
2 Boxwoods (over fertilized 1, possibly over pruned the other)
1 Pyracantha (dunno)
2 Japanese Hornbeams (repotted them and they never recovered - I think it was maybe too hot out, and they got way over stressed)
1 Shantung Maple (dunno - was green trunked through the winter, started leafing out last Spring, then died before it was in full leaf)
1 tiny Mugho Pine (tortured it by pruning it back hard - then repotted it the same day - when it was probably 95 degrees outside)

I think that's it. *sigh*

I'm trying to take things slower, and reading all that I can about the different species, etc. Patience is probably the most important thing. I'm still only guessing at why I lost some of them, but was probably too aggressive at everything I thought was helping them. I know I repotted a couple of them at the wrong time, just because I couldn't be patient and wanted to see them in a nice bonsai pot. How stupid is that?!?

Interestingly enough, I still have my first little bonsai. It was a tiny Juniper seedling, and it's still a baby - but looking nice and healthy.