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We had a bad June - with 3 weeks straight of above average temperatures and two weeks without a drop of rain, which was just enough to sun damage just about everything. It wasn't the daytime highs that were the issue, but rather the nighttime lows, which were 6 or 7 degrees above average for...

Right now it isn't a literati - just a skinny informal upright. Skinniness is not, in and of itself, what makes a tree a literati - it is the movement of the trunk. It should have dramatic bends and abrupt changes in direction, like a calligraphy brush stroke. You need to decide whether to...

Because it isn't a red leaf cultivar...

Where is the cut paste? Large pruning wounds on maples should always be sealed. Large wounds on collected deciduous trees should always be sealed. You are putting it in a plastic bag to maintain humidity so the tree doesn't dry out... but you aren't sealing the wounds - which is the primary...

Bud damage due to insect or fungus (or even physical damage if the tree has been handled roughly). Sun / heat damage is typically from the tips inwards, and leaves on the outside of the tree show damage while leaves on the inside of the foliage are fine.

"My wife texted me this morning and said, 'Your great.' I replied, 'No, you’re great.' She’s been in a great mood ever since. I should correct her grammar more often."

I'm not excusing anything. It is happening today in real time - just ask the Ukrainians. There is a reason why Finland just joined NATO and it isn't because they aren't enlightened people who just want to be left alone in their own country. However my post was directed at the OP who started...

It's like the UK. People living there since pre-history. Then Romans came in and conquered most of it. Then Saxons conquered it after the Romans pulled out. Then Normans conquered the Saxons. Etc. So who does it belong to? Anyone? It is next to impossible to judge the actions of a people...

Perhaps he is conflating respiration and transpiration? And also - that AI response has issues as well.

You were supposed to go "with" Horace? Or "to" Horace?

He is in a very remote location. He used to do landscape contracting for the entire Asheville market, but then pulled back to just the nursery, and now is getting to an age where he is planning on his "next stage". He has extensive grounds with landscape trees in the ground... but even with...

I have been seeing a lot of oblique references to this information in the Charlotte and Blue Ridge Bonsai Society groups, but I wanted to make sure that I publicize this to as broad an audience as possible. Bruce Appledoorn is closing his nursery and "retiring" from the retail trade, though he...

I have all three of those cultivars, and personally lean towards shaina... but if you know what you're doing you can work with any. I have six shainas in landscape in addition to a pre-bonsai, and their growth pattern reminds me of mikawa yatsubusa with the stacked foliage pads. FWIW...

Shin deshojo isn't a red leaf cultivar... Check out 'shaina' which, though technically a dwarf, still grows 8' tall. Tight foliage clusters and short internodes.

Check for spider mites or fungus related to overwatering the foliage and it staying wet. It is definitely not sun damage - since sun damage occurs on the outer parts of the foliage first, and not inner parts while leaving the outer buds healthy and green. If you look very closely at your...

They do not like to have their roots messed with. Additionally, be careful you aren't over-watering. I had these in landscape in SoCal and they would go nine months without a drop of water. Where do you live? How often are you pruning back growth - the growth looks extremely compact for a...

Do this. Don't immediately lose track of what they are or where they came from. At some point you may get a "confirmed" seigen and for all you know they end up being the same - just looking different due to environment reasons. Though they do not have a DNA list of Japanese maple cultivars...

If you own the tree, it doesn't matter. I actually have a tree that I have tagged "Alison's Favorite" because it was a non-descript tree from a nursery where they had lost the tag and sold it to us for a low price because they didn't know what it was and my wife liked it. I gave it a name just...

By the time that red maple grows to the point you would want to mess with it for bonsai, that little stub at the base will be gone - the tree will compartmentalize the wound and grow over it with layers of new bark. The best thing you could do with that tree right now is to let it grow, freely...

Because it is "relatively" easy to find Rocky Mountain junipers with old twisted trunks and tons of age and character. Whereas it is impossible to find shimpakus of any advanced age in the wild. If Rocky Mountain juniper had fine compact foliage, no one would be interested in grafting shimpaku...

We have two in our front yard. Though I'm going to annoy you and correct your spelling - Acer x freemanii. They are an Acer rubrum / Acer saccharinum hybrid (red maple/silver maple).

Excellent! I have to get up there for a visit!

Interestingly, though I live in North Carolina, you list some of my favorite tree species - and I have them growing in landscape here. Eastern hemlock, several spruces, acer rubrum and acer saccharum. The only thing I don't have here is larch. So even though you are up in Quebec, some of your...

Excellent! Thank you so much for sharing! I am looking forward to seeing more!!

It all depends on your trees. A larger tree in a bigger pot needs to be watered less frequently than a shohin in a small pot. Also, trees that have recently been repotted will require less water than a tree that is almost root-bound. Deciduous trees will often require wetter soil conditions...