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Are we making pots? Or coffee filters :)

I have never used it... but wanted you to know I'm not ignoring this thread :)

A picture speaks a thousand words...

Japanese white pine is a mountain pine, and does best with a little cold in the winter and doesn't like hot summers very much. In the US on the west coast they were often grafted on Japanese black pine rootstock, which made them a little more heat tolerant, but also created issues with hiding...

Try using a lot of Ironite (granular). Some of my SoCal buds swore it was the solution to tightening up and greening California juniper foliage.

Try also Texas ebony, Brazilian rain tree, Brazilian ironwood. Very pretty trees with quite small compound leaves.

Your juniper isn't looking too good. Did you have it sitting outside all of this time? Is it possible that it dried out?

(1) The big trees outside Palm Springs are in the lower elevations. You need to go higher. As you approach the treeline the trees will get smaller as conditions get more challenging. 3,500 feet sounds high until you realize Mt. San Jacinto is 10,834 feet (the mountain looming directly over...

I leave them as they are. If they are still green they may in fact still be photosynthesizing. Every now and then in Southern California I would prune a deciduous tree late in the year, or have to do a late repot that would result in a push of new growth in the late fall. In most cases those...

I buy the same one as @KateM

When evaluating your tree, always start at the roots and base of the trunk and work upwards (with your eye). It is an easy tendency to start at the top and look down the tree - and get distracted by the apex or the top half of the tree - either of which is less important and can usually be...

Wow... I have to admit I am not often stumped, but I have never seen anything like this...

Akadama is a hard clay product that breaks down slowly as a soil mix component. There is no problem with using it as a temporary soil cover (for one reason or other) but you have to be careful you aren't hiding or avoiding more substantial soil work. It is very easy to kill a tree by not...

Yaupons are native to NC. "Yaupon" is a Catawban native American word... and I live on the Catawba River :) That said, I had a Yaupon holly for years in Southern California where it did not seem to need cold weather. I moved to NC and lost it in a deep freeze in 12/2022 when temps dropped to...

Make sure you water them before a deep freeze. Ice is a great insulator. I normally keep my trees on shelves/benches all winter long. We have had one night of 15F/-10C temperature this winter. I placed my olives on the ground (which does not have snow). I brought my cork oak indoors to sit...

Yeah I've got six in landscape here trying to get them to bulk up. Several have a couple of leaves still hanging on, but they are definitely browning. But no sign of any bud movement yet... even with the recent warm spell.

I'm not sure how to respond. Your quince is breaking dormancy because it is a cold-hardy tree and you are keeping it too warm. It isn't opinion - it's horticulture. Not all deciduous tree species are the same. You hopefully wouldn't try to keep an aspen in the same conditions as a jacaranda...

I haven't made one yet because I will still working on stuff for the house. I have a few ideas I am looking forward to trying out. Working on smaller pieces gives you a little more latitude to work with finer woods without bankrupting you :)

I am curious why you are keeping your tree so warm? Are you thinking that it is a tropical? Chinese quince are cold hardy to -10F. Protecting it from a low temp below 38F is akin to keeping it in Zone 10b (aka Southern California). Some deciduous trees need the cold in order to trigger their...

Be very careful with turface. Small, flat piece size holds too much water and causes problems in short order. Maybe if you are working with really small trees the small piece size would work for you.

Good thing they aren't suggesting we use AI as our primary care physicians!... Oh, wait... Joking aside, this AI response is garbage.

I made the rockers the same way - though they were obviously thicker and 100% sapele wood.

This strange little Acer rubrum volunteer seedling is growing in a pot with a Quercus montana (chestnut oak). I was curious about it because the internodes seemed quite close together, with the leaves stacking on top of one another. It also (at least for this year) seems to be quite cold...

Absolutely. However it is advanced material. It would be great material to bring to a workshop with a pro who might help you lay out the primary structure.

Each back brace is a "sandwich" of sapele (the dark wood most of the chair is made out of) and a core of ash. Ash is a very supple and bendable wood (think English longbows). The back braces are floating in the frame of the chair, so when you lean back in the chair they will bend to fit your...