How It All Started.........

Ian Young

I posted a photo of this one on another thread stating that it was my first tree and that got me thinking....

Let's see your one. We have a good mix of folks here, some beginners and some long in the tooth. It might be nice for those who have been doing it for a while to show how they got started. Any beginners out there, feel free to join in with yours. A good way to get those lurkers out of the shadows

I started in 1993 when this Elm was given to me as a get well soon present. It is still going strong (although I nearly killed it in the first year! Pics of dead trees allowed)

Regards
Ian
http://www.nibonsaisociety.co.uk

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LivingArt

i got my first bonsai (heavenly bamboo) from my dad when i was 7 or 8 and i have no clue what happened to it

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dbz12fan

I had a chinese elm as my first bonsai. Dead in a few weeks.

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Charles Bevan
Vero Beach, Fl

DavidN

Dead Juniper after a year or so of constantly working on it.

Ian Young

I see a pattern starting here
I count myself lucky to still have mine. Surely someone out there still has their first one? Think of the example you are setting the new guys, they might as well throw their first tree in the bin now!

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dbz12fan

My biggest problem was realizing that bonsai is outside. I spent 5 years of my life killing tree after tree before I joined a club and was told to put them outside. Since joining a club I have accelerated faster than anyone I know in bonsai.

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Charles Bevan
Vero Beach, Fl

choumi

Ulmus parviflora. It was a present from my girlfriend 3 years ago. Still alive and improving. The photo was from last year.

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David Chauvin

Here's my first attempt at "styling" and potting. A small brush cherry (technically my first bonsai) received as a gift lasted a year and a half before being droughted to death.

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jeremy_norbury

This is one of the first but I don't have a photo from when I collected it - but I do have a photo from last month.

Collected as a 3-4 year old tree from a public park in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England when I was about 16 years old (I'm now 40).

It's immortal this one.

Strangely it loses leaves earlier than all my other trees - as you can see here in the photo . I worries me still every year when it does it, mind you.

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