Collected Larch Gift

midwestbonsai

Hey folks,

Here is what happened to me last weekend.
I was out at my hoop house, it's on my mom and her husbands land, "playing" with my trees.
Anyway, I was going about my business, then my mom's husband showedup with a truck full of collected trees that he collected in northern wisconsin.
This peaked my intrest, so I went to investigate.
He had around 30 larch and 50 or so other assorted trees.
He says "Paul lookie what I got here."
He went on to tell me about the collecting trip, he plans on planting them all in various locations throughout the 100 or so acres.

Then he says, too bad that Larch are no good for bonsai, I quickly chimed in and said they are very good for bonsai.

Long story short, he starts rumagibg around in the back of the truck, pulls out a tree and say "When I saw this half dead tree I thought of you."

So I now have a collected American Larch.
Planted it in an old honey bee hive box (I have about 100 of them, they make great grow boxes.).

-Paul

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Candy_J_Shirey

Paul -

A collected larch... Thats my idea of a perfect start for bonsai. It looks like you have this gem on a good path toward bonsai. It will be fun to watch its development by your hand.

-Candy

pootsie

score!

pootsie

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rockm

Next time your mom's husband says larch are no good for bonsai--show him the Larix Laricina in this gallery:

http://www.artofbonsai.org/articles/gal_lenz05.php

midwestbonsai

Candy, Perfect start indeed, I have always wanted one of these and now I do. I hope I don't screw it up. lol
Rock,
I will indeed.

I will be leaving it were it is for at least a year maybe two before I start training.
-Paul

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bonsaimeister

Looks like great material as far as I can tell from the pic. You shoud check out Nick lenz's book "Bonsai From the Wild". It is by far the best resource on collected larch ever.

rlist

Good deal. I would say you have another 79 or so trees to work in the ground over the years. No reason you can't develop roots and trunk lines while they grow around the property...

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