Very large Junipers.....

I bit off way more than I could chew....These 8 junipers were HUGE about 4 or 5 feet in dia. and the bottom limbs had rooted to the ground....Not very good bonsai material. But I went ahead and dug 3 of them up anyway.  Hell that was all I could fit in my full size conversion van.

How to pick a Japanese Maple for good Bonsai stock....

I have no idea really.....?

This is my shaded shelf....

I needed a place to put re-potted bonsai for a couple of weeks....So I made this a shelf on the shady side of my shed....I also noticed a scale and spider mite problem....Mixed up some dish liquid, cooking oil, rubbing alcohol and water and gave it a good spraying....Hour later scale was gone...Mites will be harder to get rid of...I'll need to spray every 2 or 3 days for a week or more.

Japanese Maple to dig up.....

I'm sure it's the wrong time of year....But if it is cheap enough maybe it's worth thr chance....?

Against lots of good advice I re potted it anyway....

Root system seemed healthy....I had to saw off about 2" of the root ball.....Only cut thru one root with any size to is that far down the pot....Then worked the root loose and cut them down to fit into the training pot....I feel like I cut about half the roots off....I give it a 50 50 chance of living....I felt kinda remorseful after chopping the little trees roots off.

Did some pruning....

Still have a ways to go.... and cutting the root ball down to fit in the new training pot...

Found a nice TV stand to make into a trimming table.

As I brought it home....

After I cut it down to Bonsai size....

Made a wood training box for my Mini/Dwarf crape myrtle.....

Had everything but the mesh already so the cost was almost nothing and I enjoy makes stuff anyway....What else was I gonna do an a rainy 4th of July.

Picked this up at the nursery....

Now I have to figure out what it is.....

Practice makes perfect....

I cut a couple of boxwoods down in the front of the house about a year ago....Wife wanted them gone and they were in the way of scaffolding I needed to put up to pressurewash the house...To my suprise they both came back....So I figured might as well dig one up and see if it will live....I see adds on CL all the time to dig up shrubs for free.....Here are some pics....

I may have found a new hobby....

And it's much cheaper than restoring coke machines or kart racing....Bought the pot for $1.00 at a yard sale and the tree at Lowes for $6.00...Not bad for a first try at Bonsai....Now if it will just live....I'm gonna do some more training it lives for a month or so.  I trimmed very little off to get this look, but I picked thru every shrub Lowes had.