Rather my potential Bonsai stock (o:
MyTau Stock
I've been wanting to take up Bonsai for years, and I knew it is something that is learned over time with patience. I've planted many things over the past 4 years not thinking about it becoming Bonsai but to make our garden beautiful. I was a landscaper maintenance, and self-taught landscaper for 7 years before I was diagnosed with a non-curable illness. When we live in Eastern WA I had about 20 acre mobile home park to care for, boy was it a lot of work but I learned a lot. My partner was transfered to Federal Way Wa 4 1/2 years ago. Anyway the last job I took on was our big lot. Much of it I am moving up to our new space and discovered many little and BIG treasures that will eventually make a beautiful bonsai. Some of it too big to move myself; I've been taking pictures, measurements and potting the smaller stuff.
I'm asking for some help from any fellow Puget Sound Bonsai enthusiasts to move some of the bigger stuff in exchange for some of the stock. They are going to tear the house down soon to make way for a new one, and that means all the stuff in front must go. If I don't take it then it'll go to some other area of the park, and probably die because I've seen what happens when some of the workers have moved and it's scary. I have pictures of some of the stock, but not taken are 5 Azalea's, a little 1 1/2 foot Rhodie that I saved; many customers wanted stuff removed and tossed, but I can't abide sending plants to the trash bin just because it looks half dead, and so many are coming back slowly but surely. I have a 10 foot Deodar Cedar, a 7 foot Austrian black pine, and several conifers that I don't know the names of. They range anywhere from 2 to 7 feet tall. I have saved them all and they started out as seedlings. Some stuff I'll leave, and there is a lot of plants that were there when we moved. My most prized possession is a Crimson Queen (not for trade or sale); she is over 100cm tall from the girth to the top branch spread, and almost as wide. The girth is 32cm, the trunk to the start of the first branches is 67cm, from there to the top is another 45cm. I've had 2 dwarf maples, one is 27cm tall with a 5cm girth, the other is about the same. I'm not sure if they are the same as the big one but they are red. I have pictures of them in my above link. They have been moved but if someone wants one of those along with some other stock I'm open.
At first, since I have no Bonsai tools I wanted to exchange stock for any extra tools one might have, but I was told that many don't usually have any to spare, so I thought some trading for help might work.
I am strong, and I can do a lot on my own, but my Doctor frowns upon it, well my body has many objections too, but I have to do move the stuff otherwise it becomes park property, and i've put a lot of work into this landscape.
I hope anyone can help or has some good advice! Either way I hope to get to know you all over time.
Tau