Recent content by amethystearth

Your trees are always excellent. Gives me some inspiration for the one I got in the ground

I share those sentiments as well. It's hard to imagine someone would be posting here if they didn't have something invested in the bonsai community

better to remove too little than too much. If it looks better in person, I'd keep the branches

I can see how that'd raise concern. I didn't make it clear in the photos how much time had passed. Thanks for the kind words, I think the tree is turning out nice. We are very pleased with it

What a great little tree. Well done. Have you posted this bald cypress somewhere? I'm curious

I dig this tree, and the styling is a big improvement from before. The only thing I don't dig about this tree is the symmetrical branches. You've got 4 branches, but both are in pairs of parallel twin branches going in only 2 directions. Give your tree a little more dimension and you might...

Ed, Feel free to call me jeremy if you want. Rest assured those roots were not all removed at once. I also did not defoliate the tree- the before picture is from a year ago when it was breaking leaf. We found the smaller roots to have little to none root mass attached to them. We recently...

fancy seeing you here, stranger I thought about making a new acct with my real name but IDK, I've already posted a few things on this one and I already gave them my throwaway acct :[

I looked at it like "should we care? Why?" "whe should we care" means you have to agree that we should care in the first place, which is relevant to the discussion in my opinion. Otherwise you block anyone who disagrees that "we should care" from the discussion.

that's awesome! I'll look for dwarves (even though they grow so slow :[ ) 3 full blooms is nice. We get them more often than that outside of pots here. Maybe I could squeeze a few more out of them

fascinating thanks. have you posted this tree you speak of before? Sounds cool What's your favorite cultivar to work with?

They are summer blooming plants that bloom on new growth. So yeah, you want blooms, you're tree is gonna look leggy. I imagine fertilizing low nitro until the first bloom might help shorten leggy growth.

This isn't my tree, but I make a lot of styling and care decisions on it for my brother. This tree was growing sluggish due to poor soil (still had native soil from collection when purchased). We found a wider trunk after the repot which is a nice plus for this tree. We also removed a dead...

Wow I didn't even think of that. It would take quite a few years to grow out that branch as a new trunk. But very possible. The branch curves hard towards the back a little. There is a little growth at the end of the branch but mid way towards the trunk there are several vértice shoots that will...