2024 Goals

  • Buy fewer [no more] young trees, seek mature pre-bonsai, 1 good pre-bonsai from SBBK Show, 1 good tree from the Green Elephant.

  • Japanese White Pine

  • Blue Atlas Cedar

  • Grow out seedlings (anything smaller than my pinky)—up pot or grow in ground, or perlite mix—but ignore them for 1-2 years.

  • Back bench small trees and cuttings and seedlings. Off the main bench and off the pan k patio. Cut out big ferns to make space. Position Redwood & Douglas Fir yamadori into the garden, off the patio.

  • Collect more trees from the wild (Grace)

  • Refine collected Redwoods & Douglas Firs

  • Develop current JBP collection

  • Develop current Trident collection

  • Create a forest in pot or slab.

  • Style or Shari San Jose Juniper and Itoigawa and Shimpaku

  • Make bonsai pottery

  • Clean up benches, gift away extra trees

  • Attend a clinic or observe workshops (lacking trees)

Michael Weijournal, 2024Comment