Highly recommend Meehan's Miniatures

mcpesq817

If you're near MD, I highly recommend Meehan's Miniatures. They are in Rohrersville, Maryland, which is about an hour or so from DC (depends on how fast you drive), and probably a little less than that from Baltimore. They are probably pretty close to WV and Pennsylvania as well.

I first saw their stock at the PBA show at the National Aboretum a week ago, and was so impressed that I visited them on Saturday and came back with a good number of trees.

Great stock, great prices and very nice people. Just thought I'd pass along the info.

http://www.meehansminiatures.com/

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Mcspeed

Have to agree with you, grabbed a shimpaku from them at the Mid Atlantic, it's now a pretty nice informal upright. For the price I paid(reads cheap$30) I got a nice trunk, and very healthy tree, it's not huge but worked out very well. I would do business with them again.

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constantstaticx

I agree as well. I have bought from them at the Philadelphia Flower show many times. This year I purchased a corkbark elm from them at $65. It has an awesome corked trunk and it was well worth the money.

Tom

subnet_rx

Thanks for the link, but where are the older plants on there? All I see are trees in the $5-$10 range.

treebeard55

Meehan's are (at least to date) the only bonsai vendors from whom I'll buy a tree sight-unseen.

I also make it a point to visit their booth every year at the Midwest Bonsai Show in Chicago.

Glad to see others have discovered them too!

BTW, for larger plants, feel free to contact them directly at their contact link, and ask about whatever interests you.

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mcpesq817

Constantstaticx -

Yes, I love their cork bark elms. So much so I bought four (two at the PBA show, two on Saturday), though I might give one or two to my parents. Each with 2"+ trunks and great movement, and about 18"+ in height if I remember correctly. I figure they are nice trees to practice the art on, and especially love the bark on them (I haven't found too many of them in the marketplace that were this nice and reasonably priced).

Subnet_rx -

They had lots of material there that was much larger than the stock on their website. Large tridents (with 3"+ trunks), other maples, junipers, bald cypress, etc. I bought a few nice Shimpakus like Mcspeed, as well as a couple San Joses and a Needle Juniper (though, those things are brutal to the touch!). They also had a number of pines, azaleas and other outdoor species, as well as an indoor greenhouse that I didn't have a chance to wander into (probably a good thing for the credit card since as it was I left with 9 trees). I would definitely give them a call as Treebeard recommended.

By the way, this might not be the best board topic to bring this up, but I have seen the light when it comes to the more experienced members of this board suggesting to more novice members that they buy more developed stock. I started this hobby last summer and bought a few small trees on eBay last year - I soon came to realize that there was not much I could do with them aside from watching them grow. Of course it was a good experiment to see if I would be able to keep trees alive at relatively low costs, but after buying more advanced stock from Meehan's for a little bit more than I was paying on eBay for "twigs", I have to say that reputable bonsai nurseries are the way to go. Now I have a bunch of trees I can work on this season, while the babies grow.

constantstaticx

mcpesq817, wow sounds like you got some nice trees. Mine has a 1 3/4" trunk and over 3" root base. Here's a pic.
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I would like to visit them so I can see what else they have. I have never actually been to a bonsai nursery before but I hope to change that this summer.

I agree with you in that it is better to buy more advanced stock rather than twigs. What I do now is just buy the "twigs" just to acquire the species for propagation and save the bulk of my money for more advanced stock.

Tom

mcpesq817

Constantstaticx,

Great base on that elm - wow! Mine maybe have a bit bigger of a trunk, but definitely don't have bases like yours. You have a nice gem there! Congratulations!

I'd attach pictures of mine, but I have to figure out how to reduce the file size.