I am surely going to come back in winter to look at the deciduous branches.
The bonsai I found the most stunning is probably that pine in picture nr7
My little laurel plant has psyllids eating all the buds.
It’s the second time that I try to cut all the affected leaves, removing all the insects I can see, but last time it did nothing and they just came back.
How do I deal with it without any harmful chemicals? (because I use this plant for cooking)
This is my little common sage (salvia officinalis) that I repotted at the end of march; today I did some cleanup on it. This plant had been in a flower pot for 10-15 years before this and now that I am starting with bonsai I am always looking around for new plants to experiment with.
It’s not very beautiful but I have already learned a couple things about this species that may suggest why it’s not used in bonsai:
1- lignified branches, even the very small ones, are extremely brittle!
2- any deadwood on sages rots very fast, like their “cousins” rosemary, maybe even faster
The pot is definitely oversized for the plant but that’s because I plan to let it grow a lot for now, in a few years I will take it into a pot of a more appropriate size.
The second picture is from right after the repot, at the end of march, the third picture is from last September