Which of these make for bad bonsai?

RedPine

Hello,

Tryn to figure out which of these trees arent so good for bonsai.


Andorra Juniper?
Blue Rug Juniper?
Austrian Pine?
Loblolly Pine?
Scotch Pine?
White Pine?

Plums dwarf types-
Damson?
Methley?
Burbank?


Yoshino Cherry?

Star Magnolia?




Thank you so much!!

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TreeBay

I have seen very good Scots Pine and Austrian Black Pine. I am not familiar with the Yoshino cherry or the other prunus cultivars. I think most of the these would depend on the actual specimen - having an interesting trunk, or shape, or being an old collected specimen for example. I wouldn't go the nursery to by an Eastern White Pine in a 1 gallon container with the intention of making anything from it. Same goes for the magnolia. Both have big leaves and unless there is some other redeeming characteristic, you're probably better off steering clear. A 30-year-old magnolia layer could be very interesting though. So it depends on the actual plant here.

Regards,

Matt

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GaryS

I agree with Matt.

The Andorra Juniper doesn't have very good foliage for bonsai and the plums you mentioned are grafted so you would need to find one with an acceptable graft that isn't too conspicuous which may be hard to find given the fact that they are grafted for fruit trees and not bonsai.

I had a Yashino cherry once a long time ago and it has good flowers but the rest of the year it's kind of blaaa, plus the one I had was small and it doesn't grow very fast and was buggy....

Loblolly pine has long needles as well as the Eastern White pine.

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RedPine

Ok,Thanks guys!

I was going to order the trees from a nurserey catalog,they come in the whip sizes,so you guys probally saved me about 25$.I may give the Yoshino Cherry a whirl tho,if nothing else I can have cool little flowers and get my Last Samurai thing on.The White Pine is already on the way with my Dogwoods so I'll just plant it in a ditch somewhere.Maybe in a 150 years it will still be around.

Stiil wondering about the Blue Rug Juniper tho?I see they have a Lacebark Elm,I wonder if that is the sub-tropical Ulmas Parv. tree. They say the leaf will turn purplish in fall.

waltr

Orn,
I don't know where you ordered from, but have you looked at:
http://www.evergreengardenworks.com/
If only for the tree/plant descriptions and their usefullness for bonsai.
walt
PS yes I have bought some that are now landscape trees.

Attila

Check this out.


Regards,
Attila

RedPine

Oh Yes,I have gotten some nice stuff from him before.Evergreen is going to be one of the main suppliers I use for my Skittles.

I am a member of the Arbor Day Foundation. ,so I get a bit of a discount and free trees when I order thru them.The selction is a little boring in the sales catalog for my zone ,but 1' tall Privets are only.85 each.That aint to shabby!

What is Skittles?,well it is the name for my " still in progress" Asian Maple bonsai garden.My goal is to have a few examples of each Cultv.I am up to about 10 variaties so far,and since they come in every color(even blue)...Taste the rainbow.

RedPine

Shizam!!

I don't know how people find all of these cool websites.Stuff like this never comes up in my searches.I always get 500 ads for bonsaiboy and floating post of stories about someone spilling pizza on their "blue rug".

Will_Heath

Plants don't make bad bonsai, people make bad bonsai.

Good luck!

Will