My dad, whilst at a local cemetery taking care of the grave of a relative found this tree in the bin as he was throwing some old flowers away. It is commonly given as a gift iirc at Christmas time and it was about that time of year. It is perfect. Nothing wrong with it. I am thinking possibly some sort of Picea.

Picea, probably Picea Glauca, maybe Picea Glauca 'Daisy's white'.

I concur. Picea sp., quite nice and useful material.

Definetly good material, with a bit of training it would Make a good looking bonsai.

Cheers guys! Wow! The best reaction I could have hoped for. I was thinking thinning it out but just a little to replicate something like you would see in a pine tree forest. But my Picea has a slight slant to it. What do you guys think? I mean nothing is set in stone yet. I haven't done a thing.

Also what sort of pot should I go for?

You could go for a slanting style. Possibly in a dark kind of colour in a glazed cracked pot, but this is just my opinion.

bob wrote: You could go for a slanting style. Possibly in a dark kind of colour in a glazed cracked pot, but this is just my opinion.

Yes. That would accentuate the slight slant it already has. Great idea.

Now the pot. Sounds wonderful the dark coloured glazed, cracked pot. I don't have anything like that. What kind of depth would be ideal for a tall tree like that? I am thinking quite a deep one. Like you would use for a cascade tree.

With root pruning and repotting I would say 15cm possibly a few centimetres shallower but I doubt it.

I would not touch it yet. First I would look up all the information I can find about how to care for it, how and when to prune it, and I would look up a lot of examples of picea bonsai.

I think this is a feminine tree (meaning feminine looking - soft and round). A round pot would be suitable. Conifers are usually planted in unglazed pots. It has a nice color itself already, which you want to accentuate. In my opinion a glazed blue pot would not fit. That is of course a matter of taste.

You can thin it out, remove branches, keep the branches you need for further development. Be careful with that, you can easily cut a branch off, but you're not going to get it back. Just look at it for a very long time, then do nothing. Then look again until you are sure

Several styles are good for this tree, slanting would indeed be one of them.
After thinning it out, I think you would need to let it grow and let the remaining branches develop.
You may wan to wait with wiring and repotting - doing to much to the tree could kill it. I think they are quite strong though, I have two small ones (bought them as miniature christmas trees, for almost nothing, to experiment) and they have survived what I did to 'm.

Start with looking up information and do take your time. Ignore pages with generic information about bonsai care, look up specific information for piceas. And take your time.

A nice example of a picea in a round, unglazed pot, slanting style:



(of course it will take years to develop this...)

Listen to Auk. It is sound advice.

As for pot.. Do not worry about putting it in a bonsai pot until it is getting towards thge final branching, and in the area of final styling, so in 5-10 years from now. Work towards a drumpot, based on the pictures, it is dificult to gauge the size. Trunk seems to be around 3 cm mac. So a 5-8cm drumm pot would be the deepest that would realistically look OK.