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Acer palmatum
0500-01,
Japanese maple seedling A 25yr + seedling grown
Japanese maple with nice nebari, thick 2 inch caliper
tapered trunk and some ramification . Ready for bonsai pot.
Winter view
Tree in cut down 10 inch pot. $500
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Acer palmatum
'Butterfly' 0535-01
A cutting grown 'Butterfly' Japanese maple. No graft. Ready
for bonsai pot. Winter view
Tree in cut down 8 inch pot.
$300
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Acer palmatum
0500-02, Japanese Maple seedling
A seedling grown Japanese maple. An almost 2 inch caliper
trunk with an incredible taper. Nice slanting trunk movement
Final branches in place with lots of ramification. Ready for
bonsai pot. Winter view
Tree in cut down 8 inch pot. $700
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Acer palmatum
0508-01 'Ao Kanzashi' A cutting grown 'Ao
Kanzashi' Japanese maple. No graft. Ready for bonsai pot.
Winter view
Tree in cut down 8 inch pot.
$400
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Acer palmatum
0508-02 'Ao Kanzashi' A cutting grown 'Ao
Kanzashi' Japanese maple. No graft. Ready for bonsai pot.
Winter view
Tree in cut down 8 inch pot.
$500
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Acer palmatum
0749-01 'Yuri Hime' A 25+ year old cutting
grown 'Yuri Hime ' Japanese maple. No graft. Good nebari.
Ready for bonsai pot. Winter view
Tree in one gallon nursery pot
$800
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Buxus microphylla
'Compacta' -01
(Kingsville) Boxwood A tiny 10 inch 30 year old
Kingsville with a neagari base, A very interesting coiled
and peaked deadwood feature, quite unusual. Potted in a six
inch ceramic training pot. Winter foliage
Tree in ceramic pot. $900
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Chaenomeles
It is exceedingly difficult to grow specimen sized Chaenomeles,
or Flowering Quince. This shrubby species does not form a single
trunk in nature, but rather is a continuously suckering cluster of
thin stems. Growing a larger trunk requires endless removal of the
suckering stems to a select single stem or clump. Getting a one inch
caliper trunk requires at least a decade or more of growing. The
following specimen are all over twenty years old with stems
approximately one inch caliper for most. The one gallon cans are
about six inches across to give you a measuring reference. Another
problem is a lack of branching and ramification. These trees below
are in the beginning stages of ramification, but with regular
pinching, they will ramify now that the trunks are finished or
nearly finished. A third problem with flowering quince is getting
any kind of bark texture and interest, even on very old stems. This
problem has been solved for us by the industrious work of voles,
that have sometimes eaten large portions of the bark, but the plants
have survived and replaced the old bark with a nice rough textured
bark. Without this damage the rough bark would have never formed.
Indeed, the bark and nebari is what makes the plants below so
valuable. It is nearly impossible to find quince with good bark,
nebari, and trunk movement.
Since these are some of the oldest plants in the nursery, they have
suffered years of abuse but have survived and developed into unique
trees. Unfortunately, they have often lost their ID tags in the
process. Where this has happened, I have ventured a guess as to the
identity, but I will be able to ID them all next spring when they
flower. So, if you purchase one now without a positive ID, you will
be able to have me identify it for next year if you send me a photo.
Of course this means takinga chance on flower color. For me, this
isn't a big deal on a specimen quince since it is the trunk that is
the real value here, but if flower color is the most important
characteristic for you, then please choose one with a positive ID.
To give you a sense of the rarity of these unusual specimen, I have
grown thousands of quince over the years, and of these thousands,
only the handful below have developed into trunks that I consider
worthy to be called specimen. AND there will never be any more from
our nursery.
Ginkgo biloba
Ginkgo biloba
4350-01 seedling A seedling grown 25+ year
old Ginkgo. No graft. Really nice trunk movement. Over 2
inch caliper about 2 feet tall. Good ramification for a
Ginkgo. GReady for bonsai pot. Winter view
Tree in cut down 8 inch pot.
$500
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Liquidambar
orientalis
This oriental sweetgum is similar to our southern sweetgum, L.
styraciflua except that it's fall color is pure yellow with
occasional tinges of red and orange, the leaves are more indented
and rounded, and it is better behaved for bonsai. It still throws
fat wild shoots in the spring that can be avoided by disbudding
the terminal buds as they begin to swell. It has fantastic dark
furrowed, almost black bark that matures rather quickly as you can
see from the specimen below. These specimen were grown out for
trunks, which are now finished or nearly so. They were root pruned
and repotted in squat cut off five gallon pots creating a nice
shallow root ball of about 4 inches. The branches were pruned back
or removed, and now it is time to develop ramificiation. A few
will need critical branches, but this is very easy since this
species will literally explode with buds in the spring, most of
which will need to be rubbed off, but some can be left for needed
branches. This species tends to form thick roots. Wherever
possible, these have been removed, but it is very difficult to get
a very refined nebari, so don't let that weigh on your decision.
More Coming
Malus Crabapple. Crabs make
wonderful bonsai specimen. Many of our trees are one gallon pots
and destined to be shohin, which is quite a challenge give the
usually larger leaves and coarse internodes. But it can be done
with constant attention to pinching and by using the smaller
cultivars such as M. sieboldii
x, M. sargentii 'Tina', M.
'Sugar Tyme', and M.
'Mary Potter. All of our cultivars are suitable for bonsai, but
may have to be used for medium to larger bonsai. Crabs are
vigorous and cold hardy trees. The flowers and fruit make a
wonderful show, and most have beautiful Fall color as well. Being
fruit trees, crabs suffer from many of the same pests and diseases
as their larger fruiting cousins. Aphids, woolly aphids, scale,
and other sucking insects are fairly easily controlled with a
systemic insecticide containing imidicloprid or disyston. They
should not be sprayed with Malathion. Winter spraying with fixed
copper fungicide will control most fungal diseases. Horticultural
oils also work well.
6100-235 Malus'Donald Wyman' A very
tall graceful feminine tree with good trunk movement. .
Specimen tree in a one gallon pot
$350
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6100-223 Malus'Donald Wyman' Old 25
year Specimen tree showing large 2 inch caliper stubby
trunk with mature branches and almost finished
ramification. Fantastic gnarled nebari. This tree flowers
and fruits well.
Specimen tree in three gallon pot
$1200
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6130-017 Malus'Hopa' Old 1 inch
trunk and decent nebari, 18 inches tall. Good trunk
movement. Plenty of branches to work with. Deep purple new
foliage color and small red apples. Capable of decent leaf
reduction and ramification as can be seen here, but proper
pruning is must.
Specimen tree in one gallon pot $300
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6200-059 Malus 'Profusion' Red fall color and
small red apples. New purple foliage and deep pink
flowers. Red summer foliage. One inch caliper, 12 inches
wide by 15 inches tall. One of the best for leaf reduction
and ramification, but proper pruning is a must.
Specimen tree in one gallon pot $400
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6200-235 Malus'Profusion' Old 1 1/2
inch trunk, 16 inches tall, and decent nebari. Good trunk
movement. Plenty of branches to work with. Red fall color
and small red apples. New purple foliage and deep pink
flowers can be seen in photo. One of the best for leaf
reduction and ramification as can be seen here, but proper
pruning is a must.
Specimen tree in one gallon pot $400
SOLD!
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6220-117 Malus 'Red Jewel' Old 1 inch trunk, 18
inches tall, and decent nebari. Good trunk movement.
Plenty of branches to work with. Green new foliage with
yellow and red fall color and small red apples. Capable of
decent leaf reduction and ramification as can be seen
here, but proper pruning is must.
Specimen tree in one gallon pot $400
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6572-155 Olea europaea
(Dwarf Olive) Dwarf olive with a 2 1/2 burl base.
Ready for a bonsai pot. Cutting grown from our nursery.
Specimen tree in 9 inch plastic pot
$400
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6572-020 Olea europaea
(Dwarf Olive) 4 inch burl base. Burl and stem
styling with very good branching and excellent
ramification already. Ready for a bonsai pot. Cutting
grown from our nursery.
Specimen tree in 10 inch plastic pot
$850
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6572-162 Olea europaea
(Dwarf Olive) 7 inch burl base. Burl and stem
styling with very good branching and excellent
ramification already. Attractive deadwood in burl. Ready
for a bonsai pot. Cutting grown from our nursery.
Specimen tree in 10 inch plastic pot
$950
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7950-030 Quercus agrifolia
California Coast Live Oak. 2 1/4 inch caliper trunk.
Several different designs possible
Tree in shortened 8 inch wide pot.
$400
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7950-060 Quercus agrifolia
California Coast Live Oak. 2 1/4 inch caliper trunk.
Another great base just waiting for a tree to be built on
it. Lower crossing branch is a sacrifice, or could be
shortened and used as a first branch on a short tree.
Tree in shortened 8 inch wide pot.
$700
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Tilia cordata Linden, Lime tree.
2 inch caliper trunk. Another great nebari and trunk waiting
for a tree to be built on it. Plenty of branching. Been in
this pot for 15 years.
Tree in one gallon pot. $300 SOLD!
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Ulmus
9610, 9650, 9680, Ulmus
parvifolia 'Corticosa', 'Seiju', 'Yatsubusa' (Cork Bark
Chinese Elms)
The following collection ofelms were started by Brent as
cuttings in the late 1980's. A few were field grown at one point,
but most were container grown by the "escape method". These are
mostly trunkfinished trees approximately 25 years old. You won't
find any 'stove pipe' straight trunks here, only well tapered four
inch plus trunks with great movement and mature bark. Nearly all
the old scars are healed over and invisible. Now it is time to
begin final branch and apex formation. Most had all the branches
removed or stubbed back in 2009 and 2010, although a couple have
had more advanced branch training. All were repotted in 2011 or
2012. They are potted in 15 inch square by 5 inch deep mesh bottom
Anderson pots. They are photographed after pruning so that you can
see the whole structure. I can honestly say that there are
virtually no other trees like these in the US. We must have
payment in order to reserve them until they are shipped. You can
use the side of the pot (15 inches) to estimate the trunk size and
height. A few smaller elms will be included this year, for those
on a budget and want to grow their own trunks, or use them for
shohin and smaller size bonsai.
9600-227 Ulmus parvifolia 'Catlin' Dwarf Catlin
suitable for shohin with1 1/8 inch caliper trunk and 8
inches tall. Excellent ramificiation. Recently repotted
into an 8 inch plastic pot
Tree in shortened five gallon pot
$500
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9650-201 Ulmus parvifolia 'Seiju'
Massive trunk which you can guage by how much of
the 15 inch Anderson flat it covers. Excellent rootage and
nebari. Orange color is from recent moss removing and
cleaning of trunk. An application of lime sulfur will
restore natural matching color. This is definitely a one a
kind tree which only needs final branch work. This tree
will worth two or three times this price in a year or two.
Specimen tree $1500
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9680-223 Ulmus parvifolia 'Yatsubusa'
'Yatsubusa' double trunk with 4 inch base caliper
trunk with good movement. Good branching and ramification.
10 inch shallow plastic pot.
Specimen tree $850
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9975-010 Zelkova serrata
A stubby zelkova that has had the trunk shortened
to create the crown from the three large branches. Scar
from the removal should be carved or left to rot into
shari. Good secondary branching already. 8 inch plastic
pot.
Specimen tree $400
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9990-120 Zelkova carpinifolia
A shorter carpinifolia that could make a very
striking shohin, 1 1/2 caliper, 12 inches tall. Broad
base, plenty of branches to work with, irregular trunk
adds interest in a small bonsai. 3 gallon plastic pot.
Specimen tree $600
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