Tag Archives: celtis laevigata

A matter of taste or, the past is prologue

Posted on May 4, 2017 by

Time for a haircut. In more ways than one…….Yeah, lookin’ like a crazy man here recently. In fact, it’s getting easier and easier to lose oneself in the electric lime green foliage of this tree…..   Dumm dum duhmmmmmmm! I’m a … Continue reading →

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Haunted hackberry bonsai

Posted on March 6, 2017 by

Well, being the unlettered man of toil I pretend to be,  I don’t have much to right to an opinion in some things but, I must say, what a gnarly old hag of an arboreal specimen I have before me. Scarred, … Continue reading →

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Sugarberry….aw, honey honey…..you are my bonsai tree….and I think I love you!

Posted on January 31, 2017 by

Two collected hackberries.  If’n you follow me on Instagram or the Facebooks, you’ll remember that I was lamenting the loss of a stand of native celtis nearby. Now, granted, it’s been heavily collected from by fellow bonsai practitioners but, as some … Continue reading →

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Collecting from the wild (actually, my nursery) 

Posted on January 18, 2017 by

I have this tree that I’ve been growing out (well…..I have many trees, but this one is in the ground, it was a volunteer, maybe deposited by bird trying to poop on my head, a southern hackberry, a name I … Continue reading →

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Taking a stand 

Posted on April 25, 2016 by

The 2016 Bonsai Societies of Florida annual convention is coming up (go here for details, there’s still some room in the workshops) and I, again, have a tree in the  dog and pony sho…aaa, the exhibit this year so it is, … Continue reading →

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Social media bonsai hag

Posted on April 14, 2016 by

If you’ve been following the various social media platforms I subscribe to, I’ve posted a few pics of a celtis lævigata I collected a few years ago. My original intent was to chronicle the progression only on those sites by … Continue reading →

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Why I “waste” my time on “bad” trees or, I don’t give a damn about my bad reputation 

Posted on March 7, 2015 by

Here I go again, stepping in the ant pile…..hopeful I don’t get bit this time…. Ya’ll remember this tree that I teased you with a few posts back?  Well, we will get back to it towards the end of … Continue reading →

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