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I think it has a good shape and flat bottom...but its a little small. I still may try a ROR project with it.... Thoughts?

My buddy has been struggling with his trees being killed by borer bugs. Not bonsai trees, but his 4 acre wooded patch is nearly gone after the last 5 years of borers. It's the place where I collected my Carpinus Caroliniana. It's to the point now that I'm encouraging him to wait them out, and...

I got 2 baby Elms for my birthday. It appears that they've been grown in a green house and they both have new growth on them. I assume the best move is to keep them indoors with my tropicals until springtime....? What would you do? I like the green pots! Trees are cool too...

Someone was trashing this Ficus Benjamina....it looks like its been outdoors through a few frosts.... Many yellowing leaves and some leaves have black spots. But still has green leaves too. It looks like a fused clump of smaller trees.... I've never had a Benji..... but I'm assuming that it's...

My wife asked for some Christmas gift ideas for me this year. It puts me on the spot, because I don't want much....but after a bit of thought and some online window shopping, I gave her a list of links to Iker pots that I would love to own for future use. Normally I use her willingness to gift...

Is it possible to strike cuttings of Juniper indoors over winter? I have a small area with lights for my tropical trees and I have a few Juniper cuttings from a landscape plant that I wanted to try and grow. Is it worth a shot? I was gonna plant them in Turface since it holds water forever, and...

My wife brought this one home over the summer. I cut off all the footlong shoots and dried the leaves for cooking. Got a nice little mason jar full of them. Decided to try to keep it as a Bonsai. I cut most of the roost off, and potted in lava pumice and fir bark. Little tri-trunk with a side...

My kid brought this one home earlier this year, early summertime. Been blooming the whole time. Is this related to Portulacaria Afra???

I got this azalea early this year. The color of the flowers and the single trunk made it irresistible for me. I dont have pictures of the hacking....but I chopped it down to just the trunk after blooms peaked, and cut the root mass down significantly. I think I did some pie cuts after lopping...

I thought I had a thread on this one....can't find it if I did... Just another ugly boxwood project. It was repotted this year and then cut back hard later. Doing well. Bad scar on the trunk, tiny but of callous tissue begging to roll from the top....but the nebari is coming along strong.

Here is my smaller Portulacaria Afra. Its a cutting from my other one....been on its own for a few years now. I think it needs its own thread now. I put it in this relatively large blue pot to grow out this year, which it did, then I cut it back hard about 6 weeks ago. I'm going to repot it...

I was noticing over the last months....years actually....that my Willow Leaf Ficus is a slow grower. I've also noticed that it constantly sheds prefectly green leaves, as it slowly grows new ones. I pulled it out of its pot and the root growth was anemic, so I up potted it into a larger one and...

I had the great pleasure of obtaining this healthy and ready for anything Juniper today, from a fellow B-Nutter and his wonderful wife! Shout out, @Japonicus, Thanks again! There's a lot going on with this tree. Very snakey trunk line going all over the place. My main goal for this year is to...

This is a good question that we all need to ask ourselves. The way I see it, pointing to news outlets who are serious about the truth in any situation is not a political act....except in the sense that politics is only how we interact as a people. If people can't speak to one another in a...

$15 dollars....mixed in with a bunch of Encore Azaleas....this non-Encore. Sticker says Autumn Moon Pink/White. Irresistible to me. Also, there were a few others, but this was the ONLY one with a single trunk. The others were all messy clumps of 1/8" to 1/4" twigs, while this one has a single...

My WLF (willow leaf ficus) has been asleep at the wheel for about too long now..... Finally showing some signs of life! Its almost June! I want to repot this tree this year in mid summer....its got great beef to the trunk and decent branch placement. Gotta heal some chop scars though. You...

Made a trip the local Depot for some stuff....happened to notice the garden center is open. I really don't have much room for new trees...but ya know....I can always build more benches! They had these cool little Cotoneasters for $12 and Mugos for $24. I picked this Mugo because it has smaller...

Anyone have any idea why there is a ring of green grass near this oak tree?

Can I see some pictures of what your buds look like on your JBP when you repot? I will be repotting mine soon, for the first time, from Brussels mud to APL mix. I don't want to jump the gun.....I see the buds swelling a bit....but I don't want to wait too long either. This is the first one...

These 3 are the smallest of the seedlings that I collected from the yard in 2019. I potted them in small pots and sunk those into a larger pot. They all grew well last year and leaves stayed small. Its time to attempt to remove them. The one on the left has totally plugged the drain hole. Well...

Repotted a maple clump yesterday. These were individual seedlings that popped in in my yard in 2019. Last year I bare rooted them and tied 5 together with a 1mm aluminum wire. The wire is mostly embedded now, but I did pull some if it out. One trunk died early on.....so its the dreaded number 4...

What to do.....what to do....I dunno.... I have probably bounced back and forth in my head a dozen times in the last hour.... Its 75f out there. My trees are under my back porch in the same temperature but shaded totally. Some of the trees are showing signs of life, I noticed as I watered them...

Cutting it back for the year.....it was allowed to grow freely for all of 2020 because this spring I did its initial root work, from a big deep nursery bucket. Many roots were removed, so this year was recovery time. Today, its frozen solid and ready for work. It has a bad taper problem half...

My 2 Camellia Shishigashira plants are about to bloom....and we had a mean frost this morning. What can I do to protect the blooms if it gets too cold? Are the flowers that tough?.....I doubt it somehow. This is my first full year with them, I picked them up last year around Christmas time and...

Had this one in this basket thing for a couple years now. Checked out the nebari, getting good with the air pruning..... Time for a cutback.