Forum Member Introductions

aaguilar

My intro:

Well I am a mexican teenager, I have 16 years old. I live in guadalajara is a pretty boring the only thing to do for a teenager is to drink alcohol. I dont like this so I do bonsai.

I´ve started bonsai last year with a little oro viejo this means old gold. Dont know anything of this little tree, is like a conifer. It was little and it would take 20 years to make a good bonsai. Well this tree died when I was on final exams week.

The This summer I bought a juniper and then the love to bonsai started.

Now I have:
Azalea
Juniper 2
Cotonesater just rooted cuttings
Small cryptomeria
Pinus maximartinenzii
buxus yose-uye
buxus broom style
Many fraxinus small
jacaranda
ruta graveolens
trying some palms
and many air layers.

This are may bonsai projects.

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BonsaiMon

Greetings ...
The art of bonsai enchanted me 20 yrs ago. Since then i've
truck-farmed veggies , grown bonsai wholesale/retail, and at present semi-retired and learning more about the art every day. Some of my favorites are tropicals, having started in S. Fl. ... but now, living in Va Beach, temperate climate trees are finding there place in my collection. I love to teach bonsai basics
and see the excitement stirred in people when realizing there is 'no great secret' to the art. all in all...
my first love is nature and the wonders it presents to us.
A big welcome to all the newbies in the art.
And Hi to those i've talked to in the past...

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tom stoute

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gilbycantu

I started doing bonsai this past spring. Since then, I've been addicted. I started with a Juniper mallsai I bought at Target and my collection grew from there.

My collection of 28 includes species from:
Juniper
Yaupon Holly
Bougainvilea
Grape
Parsley Aralia
Dwarf Japanese Maple
Japanese Boxwood
Arboricola
and a few other kinds I'm not sure of.

Most of these trees are in training but there are a few that I'm leaving alone to enjoy.

Good day!

gilbycantu

As for me, I'm 25, I've been married for 5 months, and my wife is 4 months pregnant. No time wasted.

Emperor Fish

Fish here.

Been interested in this lark for 3 years -

Year one - curiosity
Year two - interest
Year three - addiction

Pleased to meet you all and hope we learn together. I just popped over to see the trailer trash from Clay but thought I'd stay.

Fish.

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Juno

Greetings from sunny Scotland (yes, really - sunny)
Got involved in the obsession by joining the Scottish Bonsai Association which at least reassured me that other folk have it worse than me!
Two bonsai - Kiyohime maple, Ch. pisifera (not my work)
Three or four on their way including korean hornbeam, deodar cedar
The rest are all proto-bonsai, some closer to algae than others, and there are about 30 of them clamouring for my attention.
Glad to be logged on!!
Juno

ROBOKU

ROBOKU .... (OLD TREE)

Just a coisidence my name is robert

i come from down under and been intrested in bonsai ever since i seen MR MYAGI's collection.That's right wax on wax off...... ,"I wanted to get the tree from the mountain but they split it and it fell in the salt water!!!!!"How many times have you seen this movie ,100 ,200 times??I still get upset when they smash the pots over the rock...were they jap potsanyway i didn't get souriously involved until three years ago..and now it is a drug i have over a 100, many training and in pots..

Aubrey16

Hello! My real name is actually Aubrey(such a creative screen name ), and I am 16 years old. I have been somewhat interested in bonsai for about 3 1/2 years, and extremely interested for about a year now. One of my favorite aspects of bonsai is collecting as many different types of tree species as I can and learning, through trial and error, their individual care requirements. This of course leaves me with at least 25-30 trees at a time, indoors and out, but they are never too much for me too handle, since I take my school classes at home. Some trees in my collection are:

Pachira
Pineapple Guava
Dwarf Honeysuckle
Morris Midget Boxwood
Brush Cherry
Many types of Ficus and Schefflera
Moujean Teas
Mt. Fuji Serissa
Barbados Cherry
Some type of Juniper
Ginkgo Biloba
Hibiscus
Chinese Elm
Japanese Green Maple
Some collected trunk-forming weed-ish things (great mame)

Some of my other interests are: animals! I'm a bit of an animal fanatic, particularly things like the reptiles and fish. I have approximately as many animals as I do trees, and have little trouble caring for them as well. For instance, my newest addition is a beautiful blue-tongued skink, which are somewhat rare as pets. Lastly, the other major love in my life is my ballroom dancing. I dance for 2-3 hours a day 6 days a week, and I travel to different states to compete a few times a year, and perform at my studio a few times a year. I plan for this to be my career, instructing and competing professionally. I would also love to go to Japan someday.
So, this is a little extra information about myself, actually quite a bit. The only thing I seem to have left out is the fact that I'm a girl(important to say, since my name is a boy's name. )

DavidN

I never got round to introducing myself.
My name is David and live in Melbourne Australia. I'm 27 adore bonsai. We are considered to be in Zone 9-10. I have been involved in bonsai for about 4 years now. Someone bought me one and like Roboku I remembered the good old days on Karate Kid and Mr Miyagi's bonsai.

I was hooked when I received my first tree as a gift. Everyone starts somewhere. Books were my first place to turn to to learn about it. Very helpful. Then I came across a bonsai club about a year after Bonsai Northwest Inc and I have never looked back. That advantages of belonging to one of the best clubs in our state is awesome. It is the best because of its friendliness and great warm people. Since my arrival I have seen the club grow from an average 30 members a month coming to meetings to now (3 years later) pushing 70-80 members each month. I stand on the committee and help out wherever I can.

I have posted some of my trees on the gallery but simply could not list all my trees. Too many to count. I have thinned out my collection so that I could concentrate on my better trees. I find this has been vital to the improvement of my better trees. I also have a growing bed where seedling and other trees have been put down to thicken up.

Bonsai is part of my life now and my medication from software development which is my profession.

I look forward to contributing more and more where I can help.

The avator is a picture of my dog, Reece. He is a Maremma. Not many people would know this breed. Obviously I love and adore him.

My other passion is Star Trek and have been collecting the new DVD box sets that have been coming out of all the Star Trek seasons. Also have started to play golf which I love. Another passion is a PC game called Civilization 3.

David