[quote=g400g400,Dec 28 2012, 10:53 AM]
[quote=Bonsailelong,Dec 27 2012, 11:03 PM]


[attachmentid=3229413] This is a specie of Hokkien Tea. But not the actual bonsai Hokkien Tea.
There are many people plant this as bush fencing around their house.
But still you can train it to become a bonsai.

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Added on December 27, 2012, 11:07 pm


Bonsailelong, can you show us the actual bonsai Hokkien Tea. TQVM

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Hokkien Tea, the Google spelling is Fukien Tea. Botanical name - ehretia micropylla

The bush fencing specie is ehretia micropylla lam, common name - wild tea.

You can search from Google and read about their differences.

The wild tea can be found all over in my neighborhood, growing wild.


a wild tea bush by the side of the main road.


My neighbor's wild tea bush fencing.

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Dec 28 2012, 09:23 PM

Hi, Zabel84x2

Here are some photos of my young boxwood grown from cutting.

(sorry, photo quality is poor.)

the stem should be whitish in color and foliage should looks fresh green.

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Dec 28 2012, 09:34 PM

oh no... mine are dark color...
so i will repot tomorrow and see if i can save it or not.

thanks so much for the advise... Bonsailelong
I will update after i repot.

BONSAI MATERIALS - Part 3

REDISCOVERY

somethings behind the bushes ?!



Wow! The Serrisa I left more than a year ago still around!



Time to go back to the garden.



( I started planting and propaganda the species few years back. It grow very easily, and I got too many
of them and began to get fed up. So I simply left them out there not expecting them to grow well
and get stolen. Well, looks like I got to shape them up and accept them back to the garden again.)

I think ..I just clear the area around the tree stumps will do..

We won't call it Water Jasmine without a reason.

" Why did I plant them so near to each other in the first place?"

"Hi, little fellow please don't make too much noise after a rainy day"

Beautiful but poisonous.

I must start figure out how to shape this Weeping Willow to become a bonsai before it grows into a BIG tree!



..Should I start cutting some branches ... air layering branches so that I can get....

" Dinner is RRRReady !" calling from the house.

" O K, coming."

should I cut at this position.... or lower...

" Are You going to take your dinner or eat your bonsai !!!"


( Final part - Hiding place for toads, snake.... Prenma Nursery yard )

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Dec 29 2012, 10:18 PM

Bonsailelong's place is great, but the cleaning have to be done lol, anyway the series are very interesting.
Bonsailelong, have you ever thought of writing a book on your knowledge and photos for bonsai? if yes, maybe i can co-develop.PM me if you are into it.

So i have repoted the boxwood as per bonsailelong suggested. how to know if it's back to good condition?



and this is one of the second bonsai i thought i bought, but actually now i know i just bought a tree.
they say is limau. now got red limau and white bell flowers.
what species is this?

Bonsailelong, you got a lot of bonsai materials in your yard... keep them coming, love reading your stories....

I have only one pot of Hokkien Tea bonsai, i dunno whether it's the wild hokkien tea or the bonsai hokkien tea, sifu Bonsailelong put comments.




and closeup of the leaves ---


This one my only Banyan bonsai ( no quite a bonsai yet)
Please give comment on how to shape it... me clueless...





TQVM all, and Happy New Year 2013..

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Added on December 30, 2012, 12:07 pmthis one have nice potential for a beautiful 'sui mei' bonsai ..... how i wish i lives next door to you...LOL unfortunately we are oceans apart.

Happy New Year 2013 !!!!

This post has been edited by g400g400: Dec 30 2012, 12:07 PM

g400g400,

how many bonsai that you have collected until now? I see you are having many at home...

since you asked, just now i did a role count..... omg, i got about 52 pots of bonsai, from tiny pot to medium pot, but i dun have big bonsai...
how about you?? i am sure Bonsailelong have more then one hundred bonsai... from the look of his bonsai garden in the photo.. right??

Awesome, 52 pots!!

Big ones coming? Did you buy a trained 100% bonsai or you buy bonsai materials?

i'm thinking of visiting sanfong this week since they have a sale goin on.
Maybe visit Bonsailelong on the way home..fingercrossed

I just did my count, just realized that i only have 2 pots to be consider as bonsai, another 7 more are still trees i guess. not trained yet.

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Added on December 30, 2012, 5:14 pmoh ya, i got these 2 before i really know what bonsai is about.





one is a shui mei and another one is the limau.

Any idea what to do with this 2? bonsailelong?



This post has been edited by zabel8484: Dec 30 2012, 05:14 PM

HI ,Zabel 84x2

Sanfong bonsai is the place that I always like to go. It's not a big place (like Ho Min Yuen in Melaka) but got lots of terrific, stunting bonsai for sale. Terrific prices too!

The bonsai materials are fantastic (+ the prices), for most of the bonsai materials sold there one got to have some knowledge before can train them into good looking bonsai.

However all I've bought from there were bonsai anak only.

If you are thinking of dropping by, you are most welcome. Give me a sms to confirm your arrival.

O K. Out for the time been.

will be back after dinner to post something.

I think the place i go is this Ho Min Yuen you r talking about, very huge place.
here are some photos that i took..









if like that, do you suggest me to terus buy a ready bonsai or only buy anak only?

wah so many bonsai ... are they expensive?? price range?

if you go to Sanfong, do take photos and also the pricing, poison me a bit ... maybe when i go KL i might pay a visit to Sanfong, dunno if it's possible check-in the bonsai...

i guess, the price ranging from rm200 to 800 for the big ones.
i belum pergi sanfong lagi, this week must go coz got sales....lol
before i gila guitars, i bought 20+ electric guitar which is rm2000+/guitar.
now gila bonsai, the price i still can except..lol

good price, 3 figures still acceptable... my bonsai collections 30%- 40% of them i buy already bonsai, the rest is the anak only...
sometime just can't wait for it to grow... while waiting for it to become bonsai, so need ready ones in the collections to admire first... LOL

This post has been edited by g400g400: Dec 30 2012, 09:19 PM

Hi, Zabel 84x2

You are talking about writing a book on bonsai....
Well, I hope you are only joking.
There are so many bonsai masters, grand masters, professionals ........ in our country.
People like Abang Yie - (Pls refer to his block Mat Yie Garden), Mr.Robert Looi, Mr. Chong Hon Thong, Chegu Yau from Seremban, Mr. Chong Yong Yap, Mr. Lim of Kim Loong Bonsai at Mantin (expert in mini and small Wrighthia Religiosa bonsai. His 3 acres bonsai nursery is so well set up that when you enter, you don't feel like leaving. Unfortunately, no photos are allowed.)
and so on & so on.......

g400g400,
lol.... i agree with you, i think i'm going to buy some ready bonsai ...hahha
now you poison me 1st...

bonsailelong,
No harm in writing book on tips and photos, just as a share among bonsai lover, doesn't have to be grand masters to do so. Since master don't let photos , why not do a book of collections and tips from bonsai lover to another. i write guitar lesson books for my students and i don't need to be a pro.. anyway new tech allow us to print books with very low cost. we can sell it to bonsai lover at cost just for the love of it...
anyway just a thought, coz i'm currently still working on a series of lesson books on drums for my school's student. hahaha if you ever thought about making a record or collection for the book, just let me know..

can't wait for my sanfong trip...haha

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Added on December 30, 2012, 10:00 pmg400g400,

sanfong nursery got facebook, go add it.

this is their facebook video ad for the sales
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=486331668076837

This post has been edited by zabel8484: Dec 30 2012, 10:00 PM

Zabel 48x2. Your Limau is actually Limau Rawit or Sang Kit, botanical name - Tiphasia Tripholea.
It is actually a good bonsai material, however by looking at the photo of your limau, It's simply too thin and tall.
I think it's more suitable to trim to become bonsai like garden tree rather than a bonsai.

Here's my suggestion.



or if your are willing to sacrifice all the top portion, cut as indicated and let back bud of new branches than from there wire and control it's grow
and train it into a thin shohin bonsai.



For G400x2's Fukien Tea.....
It looks quite out of proportion. Here's my suggestions.

Cut the lower branches foliage smaller, always expose the branches & don't let leaves grow up to the main stem.

The top 3 levels make the tree look out balanced. Cut all of them the away and let the new shoots grow back and form one cone like apex only.
Fukien Tea can grow very fast, don't worry about over cutting (but not cut until botak)
Your Fukien Tea looks very healthy and over feeding. I suggest you don't put any fertilizer at this stage and do defoliation. the grow back leaves will definitely be smaller.

you mean cut back and make something like this out of it?

Zeba84x2

By looking at some photos of your space, I give you a suggestion.
Buy a 60% medium size bonsai, say not more than 3 ft high. Put it in the center, then surround it with smaller size ones and mini size ones of difference species.

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Added on December 30, 2012, 10:16 pm

You have spotted it !
Is this one belongs to you?

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Dec 30 2012, 10:16 PM