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7-Nov-2004
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The natives are restless
Native trees, got to love them, they always seem to be the first to bud and the last to lose leaves. Here's one of my natives, ready to become all I can make it. This was a club action tree that didn't apeal to the masses because it was a native. A little work on this silver maple, just may do the trick.
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7-Nov-2004
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bonsaiTALK Master Chief
 
Join Date: Aug-2004
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almost all of my trees are native to my region, i have a chinese elm and thats it for the bought ones. the rest are a selection of oak, field maple, sycamore, silver birch and mountain ash. thats just because i cant afford to go out and buy anything interesting, but who needs interesting when you can have reliable?
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9-Nov-2004
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Gday Alasdair! I'm afraid that argument doesn't wash - I try it on the Good Lady all the time, and she never falls 4 it.  FlyBri. PS:I do believe that native species are great 4 Bonsai, it's just a matter of working out their habits/requirements. And getting the purists 2 look past Japanese maples and Junipers. I'll try 2 post some of my native trees in training soon.
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10-Nov-2004
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Perhaps there is a different type of sycamore in the UK, but here in my area the leaves on sycamore tree's are like sail's they are so big!
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10-Nov-2004
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bonsaiTALK Master Chief
 
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Sycamore everywhere is a complete pain in the ass.
Useless as bonsai - unless you can prove to me otherwise... Jerry
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bonsaiTALK Master Chief
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acer pseudoplatanus i believe?
anyways, the leaves on full grown sycamoresover here are rather huge, but those on my collected specimins remain rather small. I would love to proove you otherwise, but i have nothing worth as of yet, just bonsai-in-training. Im going to have to borrow my dads digital camera and snap an image of the size of my small leaves next to a full size one, before they all migrate for the winter! The leaves on my potted trees are around 3cm across, nothing like the full size beasts.
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