I have been looking for a clump style bonsai for a long time, but never have been able to find one that I really liked. However yesterday when I visited Jim Smith’s nursery I was able to track one down. This is a pretty large planting, and will take some work to get it right, but it is easy to see that this will be a great bonsai one day.
Raw clump pre-bonsai
Here it is as I bought it. It never fails to amaze me when I see the small amount of roots needed to support so much foliage.
Clump repotted
I wanted to do a few things by repotting this tree. First I will get a wider root base. So when I repot in to a more shallow pot in the future I will have more surface roots. Also I need to get more energy to the top of these trees so I can develop more branching. Also I want to add another trunk on the far right side to balance the tree. Right now I have 6 trunks and I need to get to an odd number and 7 is the goal.
