Bonsai - first attempt to style a tree

I bought a little tree from the local supermarket and decided to try and style it.  This is my first styling and this is what I did.  Firstly, here is the tree:-

Chamaecypari pisifera

Apparently this variety isn't very good for bonsai but I didn't know that at the time but this is what I did with it.

This is what I have done so far.  I think some more needs to come off but will review it at a later date and just see how the tree grows for the time being.

Tree is potted up and this is how it looks now 5/2/12.

Tree in papercrete pot

Bonsai (collected, saplings etc)

Little Ash Sapling

One of the things I am going to try is bonsai this year.  I got interested a few years ago but I didn't carry on and one of the things I did was to put an Ash sapling into a pot.  It was growing in a friends garden and it is four years old now but I hadn't done anything with it until recently.   I went to a Bonsai display at a local village hall and it got my interest going again and then I found this lovely bonsai forum where you can get lots of help.  I love to garden but I guess I was just scared to touch this little sapling in case I killed it. Here it is:-

Little Ash untouched

After first cut

Coming along 2012

Little Lonicera

This small tree was collected when it's owner was putting up a fence and it got in the way. Lucky for me.......... this one is coming along nicely too. 

Lonicera

Kojo no mai (Japanese Cherry)

This is the winter image for this small tree.  Can't wait for the wonderful flowers again in the spring. ...... so so pretty.

Japanese cherry

Pyracantha

Not sure what I am doing yet with the small pyracantha but just enjoying the orange berries at the moment.

Pyracantha

Fuchsias

Miss California

The cuttings I took from the plants I bought at the garden centre at the beginning of the season are hopefully going to flower next month and some I have made into mini standards so I will post some pictures of these soon but in the meantime the main plants, which were under £2 a pot are now starting to flower in abundance and I have to admit that my favourite is Miss California now that it has just opened up followed closely by Bella Rosella and Dollar Princess (at the moment!)  That may change when some of the others open up!

Bella Rosella

Eva Boerg

Dollar Princess

Display

Frosted Flame

Happy Wedding Day

Madeline Sweeney

Torville and Dean

Southgate

Genii

 Genii was not one of the ones I bought at the beginning of the season but was purchased half dead from Homebase at 99p.  I nurtured it and it is doing well.

Shrimp Cocktail