Favorite Species

buzzy

1 - Pines
2 - N.Z Kowhai
3 - Totara tree
4 - Azalea's

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agraham

1.Golden Gate Ficus
2.Willowleaf Ficus
3.Bougainvillea
4.Dw.(Hawaiin) Schefflera...arboricola
5.Texas Ebony


Matt............'cause i can keep these alive?...most of the time

TreeBay

Okay! Feel free to edit your messages and say WHY

Me:

Japanese White Pine - Love that perfect scale foliage and those blue stripes. Very feminine form, although a pine tree.

Korean Hornbeam - the tree that was made for bonsai. Very twiggy but a slow grower

Princess Persimmon - my favorite fruiting tree. Again, a twiggy slow grower with an excellent scale and the bonus of persimmon fruit in the fall

For flowering, it's a split between the Wisteria, and Japanese Flowering Apricot (Ume). Short-lived fragrant flowers leave a sweet memory!

Regards,

Matt

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Carl:

By and large, I agree with you, but I lost a Bucida to a runaway heat mat, and haven't seen as nice a one since.

BTW; Texas Ebony has changed its name. It is now, Ebanopsis ebano in the Fabaceae, or Legume family. (See Jerry Meislik's article in Bonsai Today Online Journal.)

As for bougies, I'm having fun with them. Two in Soli's greenhouse and a garden (Tree Standard) one in a west window.

Regards,

Bart

Greggles

A lot of you might think I'm crazy but I'm loving my new serissa!

It's small, looks great, nice foilage (it's a kyoto type)
It's got flowers, it's hardy to heat and takes haircuts well!

I'm from australia that's why, hehe, otherwise the frost in the US or UK will allow me to choose the acers! Love acers too.

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Attila

1 Trident maple - fast and furious (nebari)
2 Crabapple - flowers & fruits second to none
3 Montezuma cypress & Dawn redwood - easy going, nice foliage
4 Chinese quince - exquisite nebari & trunk, beautiful contrasting fruit
5 Oaks - challenging and majestic

Tiny-Plant

1. Murraya paniculata
the deepgreen leaves and that they grow really well here in Finland if kept indoors when it gets cold.

2.Birch
Grows at moderate speed,and has an interesting bark when older(white).

3.Serissa
The cuttings make roots well, and therefore gives me alot of free trees to practise at. They are allso really hard to kill.

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FredL

Gosh, I'm glad I started this thread.

Two and a half years ago when I returned to Bonsai, I bought a couple of Yaupon Hollies, one of which I managed to kill by root pruning and repotting in the Fall, which brought on a growth spot, which left it vulnerable to Winter cold, which killed it 2 months later. The other one made it through the last two Winters just fine, but I havn't really warmed up to it because of my experience with it's mate. I've pretty much just let it go in the grow box I put it into last Spring

Well!!! Grampz thinks its one of the finest species in the whole bonsai world! He has me looking at it with new eyes.

Thank you Grampz!

Fred

pdbbonsai

my top five.

1. The Tamarack...aka Larch. ----> I love this tree, and am growing ever more fonder as I learn about them. From spring lime green budding through the falls golden drop. The rugged bark ages rather rapidly. Is a fast grower and is not easy to kill.

2. Shimpaku and all their juniperus cousins. ---->A nice easy going tree that basically taught me the techniques (taught me what they are, not that I mastered them!!), pinching, pruning, wiring etc....I like how they pad up "clouds", the scaled bark, and its over all rugged-ness (is this a word?)....

3. Ficus----> most varieties (I have Kingman, benji, and salicifolia,) I like these because in my short growing seasons, I have indoor tropicals to keep busy with, if not for just getting to look at them.

4. Potentilla fruticosa----> I found this garden shrub to be most excitingly special. I have found their dime sized flowers, and deep green foliage very contrasting to its rugged, scaling bark.

5. Elms----> (Chinese, Siberian) Elms provide me with some constant skill sharpening. I am always on the "maintenence" phase with my elms. Pruning, pinching, clean up, bug look out, you name it, the Elm has me doing it. Besides that, the Elms small leaf is a great "scaled-down" version of the regular trees.

Great post btw....enjoyed all your thoughts thus far.

Paul

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