Hi Guys,

Before I start asking all sorts of newbie questions, is there a
site that
y'all can recommend as a "getting started" guide to Bonsai?

Thanks,
Dave
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Well, you might try our website (address below). Your friendly
local public library is also a good choice.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Our life is
frittered away by detail . . . . Simplify! Simplify. -- Henry
David Thoreau - Walden

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Basically, I'm looking for tips on growing Japanese juniper,
which
seem to be in abundance in local nurseries. I just started with
my
first bonsai about one month ago and I enjoyed it. Naturally,
I'm
looking for a way to expand both my collection and my skill.

I do not, however, want to be influenced by other people's
interpretation of asthetics. My appreciation of bonsai is mine
and
mine alone and I would hate to have it "modified" by others'
concept
of beauty. I want to develop my own style. Of course, while the
asthetic apearance of a bonsai is subjective, survival is not.
Tips on
the latter will be appreciated.

I want to branch (the pun was unavoidable) out into maple
bonsai
eventually. Is this more difficult than juniper? If so, some
tips wold
be valuable as I do not wish to kill any more trees than
absolutely
necessary.

We have an on-line class on juniper bonsai at
www.internetbonsaiclub.org.

And whether your opinion is "modified" by others' is up to you,
isn't it? If you don't want to be influenced, no matter when we
might say (or not say, for that matter), if you're strong, you
won't be "influenced."

But watch out for that moment of weakness. ;-)

_I_ find maple to be easier than juniper -- but that may just be
me; I have no empathy for juniper or other conifers (or they for
me).

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - The phrase
'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron. - Stephen Viederman

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Small leafed ivy makes a nice indoor/outdoor tree as
it is a very forgiving plant. In California I can go
to a nursery and get a one gallon size ivy with a
reasonable sized trunk and hack it back to little tree
shape. It can be defoliated at any time if necessary,
if healthy.

I gave my two away as gifts that still live and are
appreicated. I have several more that are not bonsai
that have crept out of their pots to run rampant
through the shelves. I noticed the other day that a
pot of grasses had fallen off the shelf, but didn't
hit the ground because the ivy had claimed residence
in that pot and was still attached to the monther
plant.

Kitsune Miko.

--- Jeff wrote:
Hi, I am just beginning but would like to know a
suggestion for an indoor
tree. It could remain potted outdoors but I would
eventully like to bring
indoors. I live in the Houston area, lots of
humidity, little winter.

Thanks


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Hi, I am just beginning but would like to know a suggestion for
an indoor
tree. It could remain potted outdoors but I would eventully
like to bring
indoors. I live in the Houston area, lots of humidity, little
winter.

Thanks


Go he http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/treelist.php

Select "indoor" as one of your criteria (and perhaps "beginner"
(ignore the extra "g" ;-)) and the list that comes up will be of
easy-to-do "indoor" trees.

Please be aware that there isn't any such thing as an "indoor"
tree. All trees will do better being outside when it is
possible. In Houston that's probably _most_ of the year. An
"indoor" tree is one that will survive inside. None of them
THRIVE inside.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - The phrase
'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron. - Stephen Viederman

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In a message dated 9/14/2004 8:21:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:

Also in furtherance to the 'office trees' project, I think a weeping fig
would survive, does anyone know where in central Florida I could get one
at a reasonable price?


Is that weeping fig as in Ficus benjaminia? Or willow leaf fig as in Ficus
nerifolia? Where in Orlando are you. I am having an informal bonsai get
together at my home in Titusville on Sunday. I will give you starter plants.

Billy on the Florida Space Coast

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In a message dated 9/14/2004 8:21:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:

Also in furtherance to the 'office trees' project, I think a weeping fig
would survive, does anyone know where in central Florida I could get one
at a reasonable price?


Is that weeping fig as in Ficus benjaminia? Or willow leaf fig as in Ficus
nerifolia? Where in Orlando are you. I am having an informal bonsai get
together at my home in Titusville on Sunday. I will give you starter plants.

Billy on the Florida Space Coast

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In a message dated 9/15/2004 10:55:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:

Okie Dokie, a friend of mine is going to get me a bunch of Norfolk pine
cuttings this weekend from a big tree he has, I will try with them. I am
using this type on recommendation of the office 'plant lady'

Norfolk Island Pine is a difficult bonsai because of its growth habit. It is
not a true pine and is very apical dominant. (That means it favors growing
from the top only, it doesn't develop branches.)

Billy on the Florida Space Coast

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