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Specimen plants are one of a kind offerings. These are larger plants and/or more fully trained plants for bonsai, or plants so rare that they are best sold individually. Each plant is individually described, identified, and pictured. Prices vary according to the degree of training, caliper, and sheer potential for bonsai. This list will be constantly changing, so check back often for new listings. Plants are organized in the same fashion as our regular catalog, alphabetically by genus and species. Please refer to the Plant Catalog for the general species description. Be sure to use each plant's individual code number for ordering purposes.

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This is a very exciting development for our nursery. We have been growing most of these plants for many years just to be able to offer exciting potential bonsai. You will find them fully described, including size, shape, caliper, nebari, trunk movement, etc. The strong and weak points of each plant will be listed. Often there will also be a tentative plan described for future development. We hope you will enjoy exploring them!

2175 Cedrus libani 'Green Prince' This cedar cultivar is my favorite.  It has very dark green foliage, short needles with thick stems and grows very slowly. These trees are over fifteen years old and I will never have any more of these larger specimen (3 more to be added soon). They are grafted to C. deodara (which is standard for cedar cultivars), but the grafts are so good and so old that are nearly undetectable. These are last three 'Green Prince' that we have, there won't be any more.


2175-010 Cedrus libani 'Green Prince' . Caliper is 2 1/8 inches. This tree has a wonderfully thick base and strong first branch. It can be left as an upright or as daring cascade using only the  first branch. It has been root pruned and repotted recently so the first tricky root reduction is done.
16 inch Anderson Flat container $700
Green Prince 010


2175-011 Cedrus libani 'Green Prince' . Caliper is 1 1/4 inch. Really nice gently moving trunk. Just needs some apex work and ramification of the branches.
2 Gallon Grafted Tree $400
Green Prince 011


2175-012 Cedrus libani 'Green Prince' . Caliper is 2 inches with an enormous spreading base below. This is the biggest and best tree of the lot. There are many alternative possibilities for this tree, I have simply roughed out all the branches and subtrunks that can be used. This is a very naturalistic tree and is very similar to how these trees grow in the mountains with subtrunks and multiple apexes. The trunk even has mature bark. This could easily be a world class tree with another five years of finish work.
7 Gallon Grafted Tree $1200
Green Prince 005


7428 Pinus thunbergii 'Hachi Gen' (Nishiki Kuro Matsu)

The following selection of pines are very special. They
are all cutting grown, started in 1999. They have always been in pots and have been grown slowly to allow them to develop mature bark quickly, although the full corking scales will not be fully mature for another decade. 'Hachi Gen' does not form corky wings like the more familiar Nishiki black pines, but rather forms enlarged and thickened scales similar to "turtle back" ridging. These pines are already considerably 'rougher' than species seedlings of their size and age. The beauty of these individuals is that they are not grafted, and thus do not present graft union problems. In addition, cutting grown black pines form an enormous enlarged root base, evident in some of the examples below, but hidden just under the soil in most cases. These swollen nebari and surface roots will also have bark scale ridges eventually.

The leaders were allowed to grow on these trees for the last twelve years to develop trunk thickness and were just chopped back the winter of 2010-11. This hard pruning has left them somewhat naked for the moment, but it has revealed the trunks and the presence of the low branches. Please don't look at these as finished trees; they are far from it. I have grown the basic structure for you and have given you branch selections for final and sacrifice branches. Now that the leaders have been removed, the lower buds will be released this spring and summer. A new leader will have to chosen and branches demarcated as either final or sacrifice branches and treated accordingly. If none of this makes sense to you (and welcome to the club!), then I strongly advise that you read my articles on pines at the website and in the blog.

Followup photos will be added this summer after their new flush of growth, but now is the best time to analyze the trunks and branching for potential. Except where noted, these trees are all in two gallon black plastic nursery pots.

7428-011 Pinus thunbergii 'Hachi Gen' . Caliper is 1 1/4 inches. This is  another smaller starter plant that has all the necessary elements. There are sufficient low branches for a choice of new leader and a perfectly placed very low sacrifice branch to buttress the trunk.
2 Gallon Cutting Grown Tree $175  SOLD!
Hachi Gen 008


7428-034 Pinus thunbergii 'Hachi Gen' . Caliper is 1 5/8 inches. One gallon tree for sale now but to be released this summer. Another really good starter tree with plenty of low branching for a new leader and sacrifice branching.
2 Gallon Cutting Grown Tree $150 SOLD!
Hachi Gen 008


Pinus thunbergii 'Mi Nishiki' (Nishiki Kuro Matsu)

Please see the notes above for 'Hachi Gen' for a general description of these cutting grown trees. 'Mi Nishiki' is quite similar to 'Hachi Gen' except that the bark corks up a little faster. Unless otherwise noted, all the 'Mi Nishiki' below were grown from cuttings in 1997 and 1998. They have always been in pots which enhances the bark and helps maintain the low branches. The origin of these trees is from a single tree owned by Chuck Shane in Sebastopol CA, now of North Carolina. Chuck obtained his tree from his sensei probably about thirty or forty years ago. As was common among Japanese bonsai masters in year's past, they would select a tree with outstanding characteristics and propagate it for themselves. Thus, these trees became cultivars, although they were not always named, other than to attribute the tree to the master and designate as a Nishiki Kuro Matsu, or Yatsubusa for example. So, Chuck began calling this cultivar "his nishiki". On a whim I suggested he name it 'Mi Nishiki' and the name stuck. Like the 'Hachi Gen' above, these trees have exceptional bases because they were cutting grown and not grafted. Thus the corky bark extends all the into the nebari and the surface roots as well. They also exhibit the swollen bases common to cutting grown Japanese black pine. These trees are extremely rare, and there is nothing else like them in the world. Once they are sold, there won't be any more. I don't have the setup for growing pine cuttings any longer, and it is exceptionally difficult.

The photographs were taken in January 2013 right after they were pruned, so you can really see the trunks and the structure, but they will look a little naked. They are loaded with buds that will explode the spring of 2013. They were root pruned and repotted the winter of 2011-12 and are fully established in their two gallon plastic nursery pots. They should be root pruned and repotted if purchased in early spring of 2013, otherwise you may slip pot them and repot during the winter of 2013-14.


7447-020 Pinus thunbergii 'Mi Nishiki' . Caliper is 2 inches. This tree could be styled by using either the left or the right trunk. The left trunk already has sufficient branching for a traditional slant style. The right trunk would have to be removed of course utilizing part of the wood as jinned feature. The better tree is probably to use the right trunk, but it is a slightly longer project. It has excellent trunk movement at the base with good low branching. One of the low branches could be used for the new leader which would take some growing out. Or, there is a branch on the back of the trunk that is several inches higher up. The nishiki cultivars are really good at breaking buds on old wood, so I wouldn't be surprised if that straight section got some new growth this spring. The best tree would come from using a low branch, probably the right one, but this will take about five years of growing out. The resulting trunk movement and taper would be fantastic. Yellowing is normal winter color.
2 Gallon Cutting Grown Tree $400 SOLD!
Mi Nishiki


7447-021 Pinus thunbergii 'Mi Nishiki' . Caliper is 2 1/2 inches. The strongest characteristic of this tree is the wonderful moving base with great taper. I have pruned it back hard, but this will insure that there will be a lot of budbreak this spring to give you more branch choices. Either of the low left branches could be used for a new leader. Although, both are a little small, they are strong and should now take off. Budding could easily be forced back on the long branch, or you could completely control the branching by using the smaller branch. There is another branch on the back that could be used, but this would have to incorporate a straight taperless section of the sacrifice leader. This would give you a tree faster, but not nearly as good as the first option.
2 Gallon Cutting Grown Tree $600
Mi Nishiki


7447-022 Pinus thunbergii 'Mi Nishiki' . Caliper is 2 inches. Another wonderful swollen base as a result of using cutting grown material. The photo is a little over exposed, but the foliage is also slightly yellow since it was taken in winter and our pines all tend to yellow in cold weather. There are two large branches just above the buttress that could be used for new leaders. They already have secondary branching which puts you years ahead in achieving a finished tree. The straight section to the left is the remains of the old leader which could be removed, or retained as a sacrifice for even greater basal caliper.
2 Gallon Cutting Grown Tree $700
Mi Nishiki


7447-023 Pinus thunbergii 'Mi Nishiki' . Caliper is 1 3/4 inches. This is one of the few grafted trees that we have, so you can use it for comparison purposed to the other cutting grown trees. The price also reflects the lack of a nice fat base like the others, although several years of growing out would correct this as the understock buttresses as it gets older and larger. On the other hand, this tree has some pretty fantastic bark, more developed than on a lot of the other trees. It also has strategic branching already in place.
2 Gallon 1997 GRAFTED Tree $300
Mi Nishiki



7447-024 Pinus thunbergii 'Mi Nishiki' . Caliper is 2 inches. This tree almost has too many possibilities to list here. It has multiple branches that could be used for a new leader, or simply use the trunk as it is and just develop an apex near the end. It has wonderful scaly bark and subtle but elegant trunk movement with a swollen base that is classically proportioned to the trunk. It appears to have reverse taper in the trunk a few inches up from the base, but this is an illusion. There is a big bark scale on the left side that is curled out giving it a swollen appearance.
2 Gallon Cutting Grown Tree $700
Mi Nishiki


7447-025 Pinus thunbergii 'Mi Nishiki' . Caliper is 2 inches. This tree has an almost perfect buttress and really good surface root already, as well as a developed first branch, which could also be a new leader. The old leader was completely removed and is hidden in the back, but the scar needs carving to make the transition smoother. Used as an upright, this is a trunk finished tree. The price is low because there is a single borer hole just near the small jinned branch. This may result in a shari one day, or it may just heal over. Fortunately, if the bark does come off a small section, it could be incorporated with the jinned branch for a feature.
2 Gallon Cutting Grown Tree $500 SOLD!
Mi Nishiki


7447-026 Pinus thunbergii 'Mi Nishiki' . Caliper is 1 1/2 inches. Want a black pine cascade? Here's your chance. Excellent low trunk movement and taper into the cascade arm. It could also be a great moving slanted trunk by using the first upright branch on the cascade arm as the new leader.
2 Gallon Cutting Grown Tree $400
Mi Nishiki


7447-027 Pinus thunbergii 'Mi Nishiki' . Caliper is 2 inches. This tree has a very large swollen base, good taper and a lot of low branching. A design doesn't jump right out at you on this tree, but with all that low branching, there are many trees in there. The existing top could also be used, but more dramatic movement would be created by using a lower branch. I have also given you a photo of the back side to show you all the possibilities.
2 Gallon Cutting Grown Tree $800
Mi Nishiki

Mi Nishiki



7447-028 Pinus thunbergii 'Mi Nishiki' . Caliper is 1 1/2 inches. This tree is not quite as developed as the others, but would make an excellent starter tree with an already nice thick base. Any of the low branches could be utilized as a new leader. Very strong growing tree.
2 Gallon Cutting Grown Tree $250  SOLD!
Mi Nishiki



7447-029 Pinus thunbergii 'Mi Nishiki' . Caliper is 1 1/2 inches. This is another good starter tree, but a little more advanced than the one above. It has an excellent nebari already. The leader to the right would give you strong trunk movement down low. It needs some breaks closer to the trunk which will probably appear this spring since it was cut back hard this winter.
2 Gallon Cutting Grown Tree $350
Mi Nishiki



7447-030 Pinus thunbergii 'Mi Nishiki' . Caliper is 1 1/2 inches. Excellent bark, possible cascade, or use any of the low branches for a new leader. Possible to just use the existing trunk for an upright.
2 Gallon Cutting Grown Tree $300
Mi Nishiki



7447-031 Pinus thunbergii 'Mi Nishiki' . Caliper is 1 3/4 inches. Good value starter tree with nice buttress, multitude of low branches for a new leader. Longer term project but a a really good beginning.
2 Gallon Cutting Grown Tree $300  SORRY, SOLD!
Mi Nishiki




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