Jeff Ammons

Acquired late 2024 – at PBE from Copper Creek Bonsai First set of candles in 2025: July 2026 – Pre/Post-decandling

Acquired 2020 from cutting Picture from July 12th, 2026 I cut some small bits off of a neighbor’s jade and grew this.

This project started with my being tired of clutter on our kitchen counter and deciding I should build something that looked decent to store things in.

If you spend too much time on the internet, it’s pretty easy to believe that everyone out there has outsourced their job to AI and is just letting their LLM of choice run free.

Grewia Occidentalis #1 and #2 Acquired 2020 – Lavender Star Flower (Grewia Occidentalis) I bought two of these in 2020 from https://www.bonsaify.com/ for $25 each.

I bought this from a nursery and styled with the help of Addison in December 2022.

I bought this tree as a small whip at a show and added some bends in it to start with.

Acquired 2020 I bought this ficus as one of my first bonsai.

Acquired 2024 Just before decandling in 2025: I bought this tree at an auction in February of 2024 for fairly cheap, knowing that it would be a good deal of work to condense it into a more showable tree.

I used to loathe having anyone tell me I needed “more years of experience” to succeed at something.