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One of my trial Tsuga c., to see if they can hack it in the coastal Carolina heat, is doing pretty well. I repotted them all in to bigger pots, but this one got more of a slip pot up. I’ll give them another year before risking my collected one by bringing it down. It is in safe hands now.

I was worried about the OP tree on the right, but it’s budding out.

I got mine in the mail today in great shape. I may need to pick up a few more pond baskets to really let them run. Maybe put one in 5 stacked colanders? Turface and peat moss 50/50? Or get them started on the good stuff? @cmeg1 wouldn’t be fun to get some corker seedlings in the mix?

A few of my characteristically bad photos. Looks like I never got much movement wired in, but the trunk is nice and honking. I wonder if I should take back with me to SC?

Cleaning up the weeds on this “Stick in pot,” 15 years in training. For a Siberian elm, I think it will be a nice tree… in another 15 years or so.

Just not the seeds right? I think I’ll pass.

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Life, death and taxus!?! Amiright? … I think that mean don’t eat the yew berries.

Ordered 5… I mean, I have the pond baskets already. Can’t wait. I have two others that are progressing slowly due to my neglect, but these will be well tended to.

I think this guy values $$ above all else. I didn’t want a pindo palm delivered and planted, so he didn’t want to be bothered.

Good advice, and apologies for bringing my drama to the forum. But, I’m going to try to “let it go” first.

Thank you, thank you; you are a wise nut. I knew that at some level, but that is just what I needed to hear to put it to bed. I should plan a trip up there, maybe in the fall? I can’t find any clubs around here and it would be real nice to get at least some meetings on my schedule, at least...

He did write a (criminally libelous imho) fake review of my review. Which I reported to BBB, but I don’t have much hope that will come to anything. I debated calling the local non emergency police line, but I get a bit nervous not knowing the local politics real well around here. I know he is...

Agreed, and I shouldn’t have brought it up. Somehow it is easier for me to refrain from name calling.

No indication that it was for holding, but I could tell that they were set aside. I spent about 1 min to check the tags to see if it had cultivar info, but it didn’t, so I walked away. I was only there for a grand total of a 15 min, max.

I moved to S.C. over the summer and was quite excited to check out a nursery just down the road from me. I browsed for a while and came back to a honey suckle looking plant that I was thinking on, but didn’t get a chance to ask what species it was. I looked at a few azelea that were up on a...

I was a lurker in the IBC days, but lurk I did. The first club meeting or workshop for me was around 2007 or 2008. I had some books but the forum was/is my main source for information. Vance was a king of sharing information and stings a little that I won’t read any more of his fresh takes on...

I was just thinking about Vance in recent weeks when considering when to repot my nursery mugho that is sitting on the ground next to my bench. Whether he knew it or not, him and JKL were my main mentors through the first half of my bonsai career. I think the most important lesson I learned...

I’m watching the thread as I could use some more good material to work with.

I opted for the conservative approach of breaking up the surface soil, scraping it off and drilling a few air holes around the perimeter with a very stiff piece of wire. I washed the surface too and let the water soak through a few times and covered lighly with long grain spaghnum and course...

I see buds just starting to move and we are past the last freeze. But, it did have some work done over the winter with the cut and style. I have a next pot picked out that is wider and shallower, at about the same volume? I do have a larger fallback pot if I want to give it some room to run.