This is a black pine i got from kaizen bonsai.all the candles were cut off in late may and this is its second flush.
Cork bark black pine
Stages of early development for this black pine.
When this pine came to me it had hardly any roots and struggled for the first year.luckly it survived and is starting to show me its a bit happier.
One more black pine.
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