Do you name your bonsai? I don’t necessarily “give my trees names” as such. In my notes I often give descriptive names to individual specimens especially when I have multiple trees of the same species, but those are usually names like “concord” for a tree I found on Concord Drive, or “monster” for that particularly large tree. The closest thing I come to giving a proper name is when I refer to a tree by the person I got it from, such as “Acer palmatum, Sandi” for the Japanese maple that I got from Sandi’s collection.
But this is Fred…
Fred is a Ficus benjamina that I have had for a fair number of years. My notes are shockingly bad on the origins of this plant, and that’s ok. After all, we are talking about naming trees here. (We will not go too…
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