Auk wrote: My collection may be getting a bit too big, but that doesn't mean I have a lot of good trees. The ones I would remove... you wouldn't want to have.

You don't know me too well. I still have plenty of space and a good bit of time left on this earth (God willing).

Bonsai Bender wrote:

Auk wrote: My collection may be getting a bit too big, but that doesn't mean I have a lot of good trees. The ones I would remove... you wouldn't want to have.

You don't know me too well. I still have plenty of space and a good bit of time left on this earth (God willing).

Lucky you!

Ditto! Wish I had gotten started on formal training alot earlier. ALOT earlier.

I picked up this little fellow today from

www.bonsaishop.ie

My first out door tree!

So some of my first yamadoris this year:
Carpinus betulus



Betulasa pendulas










and shoshin field maple ( I guess)





and I potted last year yamadori oak that was growing in the ground in the garden for a year

Today I collected this huge field maple.

I collected this Hawthorn yesterday




Really nice material Kristof;)

Garden yamadori from friend´s garden.
She wanted to make some room there. It´s christmas day for me today.
Japanese maple.

Nearly done for this year´s deciduous yamadori trees.
Hawthorn and blackthorn.
One more shohin size tree tomorrow and then few pines in may.
All of the trees (except garden maple) were collected in the bushes that are to be cleared anytime now as the heavy machinery clearing out everything around is approaching.my favourite spot for collections.
Thats why I am not taking chances and I collect what I see right away and hope for the best using Tony Tickle´s sweating technique unlike my fellow bonsai enthusiast from here that are preparing trees for collection for a few years and every now and then their efforts end up on a piles that are then crashed by a huge mixer (or whatever you call it).

All 3 Collected last month