I turned to you guys hoping some one may have 1 they would like to sell. I'm not the richest, but am interested in trying 1 out. I looked all over online but my concise told me to come here first

Try this forum.

http://garden.org/forums/view/...

O wow didn't know that was there..... ty

Bonsai is not a cultivar of tree. it is a training method. Without the skills in place to care for your new tree in a tray. You are going to spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars to no good end.

Rather than rewrite an entish version of War & Peace. Search of the net for an active bonsai forum. and read around some.

In the spring look to your local "Free-Cycle" or "Craigs List" for a boxwood or juniper that a remodeler wants taken away. Dig out a big old fat stump and get to work. Your sweat equity should make you unwilling to neglect your investment.

The fun of bonsai is creating one but the creating is never done. It's not a stagnant art form; the plants continue to grow and, in my case, change as things get broken or I see a new possibility. Read a couple books or find a bonsai class at the local nursery. Plants that want to be small are the easiest to bonsai but anything can be. I wander around and look for seedlings that I can (ask permission to) dig up. I look for seedlings that are especially twiggy for their size. You can learn to take short cuts by buying a tree or shrub and pruning it back. But you have to learn to "see" what a plant is suggesting and then growing it to become that vision.

I took some classes and also read a lot. My favorite book is:

"The Japanese Art of Miniature Trees and Landscapes" by Yuji Yoshimura and Giovanna M. Halford

I would start with something like a 1 gallon size Mugo Pine.

Daisy