Recent content by jackg

According to Warren Hill, on the subject of Pseudocydonia chinesis, put it in the ground for a couple of years and I quote: "Feed, feed, feed. Mainly fish emulsion, MorBloom and cottonseed meal. My specimen is over 14 years old and grown from a cutting. Also have three others I layered off...

Have been growing junipers for the past 17 years with modest success. Mainly Chinesis/Sargenti, and one lonely Tosho. Am looking for an erudite individual to explain how you get that smooth red trunk on your specimen juniper bonsai. Have seen this on several trees, but can find nothing in...

deGroot is a Hessian name, is he originally from the New York/New Jersey area?

I did not see mention of it elsewhere, this weekend the 8th and 9th of Sept. 2012 the Tri Cities Bonsai Club is having its annual exhibit at the Gray, Tn Fossil Museum. In the past there have been four clubs exhibiting at this show. Admission is free.

If you do it correctly you should have new roots in 30 days. Once the roots form you will need to be patient for another 30 days while they harden out. Personally I use air layer pots specifically designed for this activity...

I originated in upstate New York, Lake Ontario region, much the same as upstate Mich. The next door farm to my fathers dairy farm was a Sugar Bush. That is a place where hard maples are grown for Maple Syrup. More than likely your maples are either hard sugar maples or Silver Maples (soft...

Have several Washington Hawthorn's. Just hoping to live long enough for them to start blooming. My questions is do any of you out there in bonsai land know where I can obtain a Pauls's Scarlet Hawthorn in the US of A. Have done the due diligence on the internet and can only find sources in...

Have found Neem oil to be okay for light work as an all purpose fungicide, miticide. insecticide. However have lots of landscape junipers infecting my quince, hawthorns and crabapple. Tried Spectricide. It seems to work quite well on the affected trees, however drift of the spray has hurt...

Whatshisname from the NC Aroboretum made the same point about Saikei during a seminar I attended two years ago. Sorry am terrible with names, been married to whatshername for 49 years. In any event bonkei would be the more appropriated name. Literally scene from nature. Nice response from a...

Have four or five Brazalian Raintrees. Oldest is 10 years old, received it as a seedling. Grown entirely out of doors here in East Tennessee. To the best of my knowledge it is Sub Tropical, and I leave it out of doors all year round. Mine are doing well even in this unusual hot spell we are...

Yes and Evergreen doesn't mean evergreen, it only means evergreen. When traveling through Memphis and contiguous Ark. drool over the bald cypress in the swamps along I40. What keeps me from collecting are two things: Lack of a boat and the Cotton Mouthed Water Moccasin.

Too bad they didn't mention which White Pine was the insectivore.

Six inch colanders are available from gourmet cooking stores, and are expensive. WalMart in the past has carried 8" colanders, for two to three dollars. My preference is for the 10" variety. Get them at the Dollar Store for a dollar each. Work quite well. Have been using colanders for 10...

I have one Austrian black pine-Pinus nigra. Grew it from a cutting, yes this is unusual, on a tree purchased at a local garden shop. It is done root over rock and is about 18 years old. Needles reduce nicely using same technique you would use on Japanese Black Pine. Park is rough and...