Evergreen Gardenworks
2024
Specimen Catalog
Deciduous

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Specimen plants are one of a kind offerings. These are larger plants and/or more fully trained plants for bonsai, or plants so rare that they are best sold individually. Each plant is individually described, identified, and pictured. Prices vary according to the degree of training, caliper, and sheer potential for bonsai. This list will be constantly changing, so check back often for new listings. Plants are organized in the same fashion as our regular catalog, alphabetically by genus and species. Please refer to the Plant Catalog for the general species description. Be sure to use each plant's individual code number for ordering purposes.

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This is a very exciting development for our nursery. We have been growing most of these plants for over ten years just to be able to offer exciting potential bonsai. You will find them fully described, including size, shape, caliper, nebari, trunk movement, etc. The strong and weak points of each plant will be listed. Often there will also be a tentative plan described for future development. We hope you will enjoy exploring them!

Trident Maple, Acer buergerianum
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Hedge Maple, Acer campestre
Hedge maple is a an excellent tree for beginners. It is tough and easy to grow. It grows fast giving you a lot to do, but the leaves and internodes reduce nicely. It is very widely adapted.
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Acer palmatum

Acer ginnala, Amur maple. The following maples are very old seedlings started in 1991. They have always been kept small and have been continually pruned back. All are in one gallon pots that have been cut down, so they are ready for bonsai pots. They are trunk finished and most have all their major branches. The branches will need development from this point, although some already have a good degree of ramification. These are Fall photos (2015) so that you can see the structure and get a clear view of the trunk. The trunks have been painted with lime sulfur so that the lower portions that are water stained will match the light gray bark. This coloration will even out by spring. Amur maple has a lot of deadwood in nature, and the wood is soft and rots easily, so a wood hardener is recommended as soon as the desired deadwood color is obtained.

Acer ginnala 033, Amur maple A tiny 12 inch Amur maple with a 3 inch caliper base. Very attractive hollow trunk, good nebari.. Ready for bonsai pot. Winter view
Tree in cut down 8 inch pot. $300

Acer ginnala 034, Amur maple A tiny 12 inch Amur maple with a 2 inch caliper base. Very attractive nebari.Beautiful dead trunk feature. Ready for bonsai pot. Winter view
Tree in cut down 8 inch pot. $300

Acer campestre Hedge Maple 5 inch caliper trunk, 28 x 23 in 17 inch Anderson pot. Ready for bonsai pot.
Tree in pot. $4000

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

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.

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.
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Evergreen Gardenworks 2024 Specimen Catalog Deciduous

Evergreen Gardenworks
2024
Specimen Catalog
Deciduous