Portulacaria afra

Hello all together
My name is Karl-Heinz G. and I am from Germany. I am very new here and this is my first posting. Just would like to show you one of my trees. It is a Portulacaria afra. It is about 20 years old.


Best regards
Karl-Heinz

Very nice specimen. I would however selectively remove some of the upper branching and make it look a bit cleaner. Thanks

That is one of the most tree like Portulacaria I've ever seen. Nice job.

Thanks for your replies.

Caribbean Bonsai, yes, I have to balance out again the upper and lower branches. This is one of the key aspects of activity by my experience with this tree.

Jim, I like this tree very much. I bought it 9 years ago.

The nebari, trunk, and primary branches leading to the secondary and more, all look very natural. I, like Jim, have never seen this type look so much like a natural tree. Very nice.

Thanks Carolee, this is one of my first trees when I started with Bonsai about 10 years ago. You need a long time to get experience with different species. But this one accepts a lot of beginner mistakes. So I think Portulacaria afra is very good for Bonsai beginners.

Welcome to the forum, Karl-Heinz! Nice photographic technique too!

The nebari is what jumped out at me first thing..
Very good overall apperance. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you very much for your kindly welcome, John. My photographic technique is very simple. But I try to do my best and I like to show visible pictures.

@ Jay: thanks for your kindly response. To get a reasonably satisfying nebary wasn't easy and I formed it step by step.

Its a very lovely tree. Nice work!
Jerry
www.bonsaihunk.us

I have one Portulacaria afra with four years,



After

Hi all,
here are updates of my Portulacaria afra trees. Some days ago they got new pots.





In Germany spring is just coming now and the weather forecast is promising night degrees over zero. So my indoors are outside for the next months. I like it very much.

Karl-Heinz

Very impressive thanks for sharing.

Your Portulacaria is one of better that I have seen ... this one is the mia size shoin in semiwaterfall, we will see if I obtain something nice.
Regards

Hi, Karl...great to see such good work with this species....your trees are lovely...very good work. Thanks for sharing....The attached is a C. argentea from last fall. I like yours as they are very "tree-like" in the words of others. I have not seen many others styled as well.

Regards,
Tom

Hi all,
Thank you all for your kind comments.

Matrix, very pretty your shohin P. afra. I would like to see the developement of this small tree.

Tom, your blooming Crassula is looking great and I like this specimen too. I have two big C ovata and will show them later.

Karl-Heinz

Portulacaria afra over rock (Ishitsuki).