I went walking through the nursery one day

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It wasent May but one day in early April I was wandering through a local nursery and stumbled upon a bunch of forgotten Ginko Biloba "Pendulas".
Thay looked as if thay had been there a very long time. The few price tags that were left on the trees were faded and impossible to read. I noticed one of the Ginks had lots of suckers trying to start and it looked as if the nursery had pruned them back severl times in the past. That got my attention but not planing to spend money (especially at that nurserys prices) I left them there that day.
All that night I kept thinking of that tree and the possibilitys. Even had a dream about it. So the Next day I went back and talked to the Owner. Since the tag was missing and all the others were unreadable I managed to talk her into selling it to me for 20 bucks!!!

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"Down on the borders they are felling trees--good trees...Some of the trees they just cut down and leave to rot..... Many of those trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nut and acorn; many had voices of their own that are lost forever now. And there are wastes of stump and bramble where once there were singing groves. I have been idle. I have let things slip. It must stop!"
-Treebeard
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien

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While digging up the Ginko I observed that its roots were very large and had broken through the burlap sack that was once around the root ball when it was planted there. The sack was almost completely disintegrated and intangled in the roots and many suckers. Once I got it home I did some severe root pruning and spent a lot of time picking out the old nursery dirt and the old planting sack. I choped the trunk off a little above the suckers and planted it in a plastic pot to recover for the rest of the year.

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"Down on the borders they are felling trees--good trees...Some of the trees they just cut down and leave to rot..... Many of those trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nut and acorn; many had voices of their own that are lost forever now. And there are wastes of stump and bramble where once there were singing groves. I have been idle. I have let things slip. It must stop!"
-Treebeard
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien

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During that following summer It was very vigorus and the suckers grew very rapidly.

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"Down on the borders they are felling trees--good trees...Some of the trees they just cut down and leave to rot..... Many of those trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nut and acorn; many had voices of their own that are lost forever now. And there are wastes of stump and bramble where once there were singing groves. I have been idle. I have let things slip. It must stop!"
-Treebeard
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien

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Since It was very vigorus the following year and I was sick of looking at it in that ugly black plastic pot I decided to repot it into a bonsai pot.
So I dug it up and saw that many new small roots had appeared and thay all seemed very healthy. I then Pruned some large roots left over from last year.

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"Down on the borders they are felling trees--good trees...Some of the trees they just cut down and leave to rot..... Many of those trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nut and acorn; many had voices of their own that are lost forever now. And there are wastes of stump and bramble where once there were singing groves. I have been idle. I have let things slip. It must stop!"
-Treebeard
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien

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So here it is now (not the best Picture) After some wiring and a little pruning with a new bonsai stand made by my father of Colorado black walnut.

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"Down on the borders they are felling trees--good trees...Some of the trees they just cut down and leave to rot..... Many of those trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nut and acorn; many had voices of their own that are lost forever now. And there are wastes of stump and bramble where once there were singing groves. I have been idle. I have let things slip. It must stop!"
-Treebeard
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien

midwestbonsai

Neat transformation

-Paul

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ozzerbon

Howdy Levi_bonsai,

Are you the lucky one then, and what a good eye you must have for spotting that tree, Very impressive work. 20 bucks you say, think many 100s if in Holland.

Nigel

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