Recent content by bisjoe

My tropicals winter well in normally our sun-free fall-spring climate in a garden window, where natural light comes in from the top and 3 sides, and faces the south. I think it was about $400 and took me half a day to install several years ago. For humidity I have a running water fountain on the...

Ah, another woodworker. Keep in mind that if you make it too nice, it will take attention away from the tree. It's a great design, but I'd simplify it. I love doing veneer inlay work and have to force myself to avoid using it for bonsai stands.

Stunning is a good word for it. I showed my copy to an accountant friend today who has only a slight interest in bonsai and she asked me to e-mail her a link to the site where she could order one.

Hopefully their hands held out for the rest of the signing. They were making good progress when I was there this afternoon. I am enjoying my copy. Great to see you again, Will! Joe

Congratulations on reaching the end of a long, hard road Will. I can't wait to see you, Dan and Vic tomorrow and get my copy! Enjoy this first weekend as an author, you surely deserve it.

Take a short drive down the coast to Half Moon Bay, and stop at Half Moon Bay Nursery on Highway 92. Great, inexpensive stock. We stopped by there on vacation and had little room for ourselves with all the plants back coming back through Oregon. http://www.hmbnursery.com/

I laughed out loud when I read this: "The plant is wired and may fall off during shipping." Could someone be doing a joke to demonstrate how gullible e-bay buyers are? I hope so.

That has to be one of the best places in the west to collect, love that shore pine.

What sun?:o Here the rain is back. They should be fine 8-noon anyway.

Try diatomaceous earth, just sprinkle around the pot, their exoskeleton gets cut by the sharp edges.

San Francisco and much of the east bay water comes from nearby Western Sierra mountain snow melt, and is among the purest in the country. In your new home about half the water comes from eastern sierra snowmelt but then travels 40-50 miles south in an open canal, the rest is from local...

It's a marginal, so can survive with constantly wet feet. I have used it several times on the waterfall area of my fish pond. Cool little plant. I did keep it one year in my bonsai winter enclosure with my less hardy trees, but the problem I had was forgetting to water it often enough. Since it...

I haven't seen much of that in the NW, but had experience with it in CA when we lived there. It's actually parasitic, and sends roots into the bark to rob the tree of the nutrients and moisture, eventually can kill it. Simply cutting it off may not do much, so I'd definitely remove the bark or...

i doubt it. I remember when we lived there, I built a new deck, and the next year when I went to get preservative for the wood they had banned my favorite kind.

"Toxicity to humans, including carcinogenicity, reproductive and developmental toxicity, neurotoxicity, and acute toxicity." quote from the Pesticide Action Network North America