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Valerie,
Can you see little tiny green shaving brushes popping out yet?
this is what mine looked like last week.

No, it doesn't look good. . I'll give you a report when the weather settles down.

aww good luck

Yeah, it's dead. In fact a lot of my trees are dead. I tried moving them back and forth from the house to the outside. Outside the weather was crazy and inside they got fungus and bugs. I had a mass funeral yesterday . My cool double pine tree is also dead. I have much fewer to focus on now but they will get more attention.

When did you dig up all the trees? It's too bad that a lot of them died.

Shame bud. Best thing you can do is try learn from it and think of things you could have done differently, im not saying its your fault, everything is a learning process. So don't be too put down.

WE all kill trees. It's a sad fact. You can do everything possible and some will still die. Take them in early spring and get as many roots as possible. then leave them alone for a year to recover.

Killing trees is all a part of doing bonsai. I just had a chinese elm, that I won in a raffle, die. It leafed out nice then curled up and died.
I'm still trying to figure it out. The roots looked good when I removed it from the pot. The cadmium died all the way to the soil in less than a month.
The moral of this story.......sometimes it just happens.

that sucks but like Lance n snuffy stated it comes with the art. 2 years into having outdoor bonsai (i started with ficus )i lost alot too. rodents,impatience,bad timing and a lack of knowledge all contributed to their downfalls.this year i may loose 2 more by the looks of them :S as long as you learned something it wasn't in vein

Yeah, it's a bummer. I think what makes the most mad is that I was shuttling the trees back and forth from the house to the outside, and I didn't even realize they were dead! I think the last freezing rain/snow/random hot weather is what killed them finally. I'm moving on now, though, I mourned for a day and nicknamed myself the tree slayer for an afternoon, but I have quite a few trees that are doing really well. I've learned that pines and junipers are tricky, they might look like they are alive but sometimes they're not! It's a real bummer to realize I've been feeding them and watering them and trying to keep them stable when they've been dead! I think they died recently but how long have I been taking care of dead trees. :pinch:

I learned to really pay attention to my trees, not just take for granted that they'll make it if I water them and try to keep them in a stable temperature. I'm posting pictures of some of the trees I have left. I have a whole new appreciation for the horticulture side of bonsai now that half of my forest is gone. Soil, lighting, food, weather, trees are living and they are constantly growing and changing. I know that sounds obvious, but bonsai isn't like collecting nice pottery. I have to really pay attention to them because they are alive. Anyway, lesson learned, I'm still a miffed at myself but it will help me take better care of the trees that I have left.

Thanks for the support, everybody, this forum is great!