Vance Wood
Lord Mugo
Is this the Scotts I think it is? Looks like it's doing well. It needs back budding more than it needs wire, JMHO/
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Speaking of back budding...
This JWP just wasn't doing much at Boon's. This first picture shows me leaning over it, trying to see if it was producing any buds.
So, Boon and I decided that it would do better in my climate than his. I brought it home last September.
It's made a world of difference!
I took this picture about a week ago. It's filled out even more since then. It's now making its third flush of growth! I know, JWP are supposed to be "single flush" trees. But it seems it's so happy to be in a warmer climate, it's putting on all the growth it should have put in three years at Boon's all at once!
And it's still making new backbuds. As you can see, there are a few overly long candles. I'm leaving them on for now. In the fall, I'll thin it out. I want it to regain its vigor. I'll have to remove some of the wire where it's cutting in, too.
Paradox
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Yes its the Scots pine I purchased at the National Show last year.
Yes, I agree. It needs back budding, but as you know these things take time. First order of business was getting it out of the pot it was in and into a nice big training pot so it could stretch its toes out. Next order of business is to feed it heavily this year. It has cakes on the soil and it gets fish and seaweed emulsion every week or two (rain almost every day has been causing issues with weekly scheduling). I was debating whether I should pinch those candles back because some are getting long but since it got repotted this year, that probably isnt the best thing to do right now. Just feed, lots of sun. If its nice and strong this fall, Ill do some pruning.
Some spring color on a grey, rainy day:
BobbyLane
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A little Rowan/Mountain Ash in development...early days
IMG_4781 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
IMG_4782 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
IMG_4783 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
and a little Beech, this may go in the ground for further development, i'd like to train it into a clump form
2017-06-08_07-26-23 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
IMG_4781 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
IMG_4782 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
IMG_4783 by Bobby Lane, on Flickrand a little Beech, this may go in the ground for further development, i'd like to train it into a clump form
2017-06-08_07-26-23 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
namnhi
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I really like the little Japanese maple on your bench. Nice movement.
Not sure what this tree is but it has very thick bark. It looks like a pine/bottlebrush as it has leaves like needles. The leaves are tiny compare to regular bottlebrush. This is at the park near my work.
Tentakelaertje
Omono
Maybe you should try to airlayer it.
Airlayer of the week:
Done last summer, deattached last weekend. About 20 cm wide at the soil.
BobbyLane
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Ive begun work on yet another Beech project, its called 'towering' Beech, at 22in high, the tallest on my balcony, cuts a stately figure..........early days, first styling
Nybonsai12
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Black pine big
And black pine small. Lots of buds!!
And black pine small. Lots of buds!!
BobbyLane
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English Elm at night, i did some pruning and branch selection on it a few days ago, slowly getting everything where i want it, been compacting the crown over a number of months now
2017-06-13_09-54-03 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
Updated shot of my Beech after some tweaking, backbudding will give me some more options
IMG_4893 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
2017-06-13_09-54-03 by Bobby Lane, on FlickrUpdated shot of my Beech after some tweaking, backbudding will give me some more options
IMG_4893 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr
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CamdenJim
Shohin
"The next time you fly out of Moscow... "
My wife and I had a 26-hour trip home from a vacation in Russia yesterday. One of the funniest parts of the trip home was finding multiple plastic things shaped like bonsai in the business class lounge at the Sheremetyevo Airport. A bonsai olive "forest" (a low planter with multiple tree-shaped plastic things), another planter with similar sized plastic pine-shaped-but-juniper-foliaged things, and a matched pair of something tree-like in matching pots at the ends of the reception counter.
One of the few things that made me smile during the long trip home, and it's possible I even laughed out loud when we walked into the lounge.
My wife and I had a 26-hour trip home from a vacation in Russia yesterday. One of the funniest parts of the trip home was finding multiple plastic things shaped like bonsai in the business class lounge at the Sheremetyevo Airport. A bonsai olive "forest" (a low planter with multiple tree-shaped plastic things), another planter with similar sized plastic pine-shaped-but-juniper-foliaged things, and a matched pair of something tree-like in matching pots at the ends of the reception counter.
One of the few things that made me smile during the long trip home, and it's possible I even laughed out loud when we walked into the lounge.
MACH5
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Cooling off after a hot day in the sun!
ghues
Omono
Potawatomi13
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Amazing
difference. Speaks much for cold wintering White family Pines. Is huge base Black Pine?
Nybonsai12
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Amazing
Rules of this thread are that if you post you have to include a pic of one of your trees. You owe a pic.
Here's a shaggy grafted white pine that I know you will love.
VAFisher
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I like that one. Here's what's left of my twin trunk Chinese Elm. It blew off the bench a couple months back and broke the whole top out of the main tree. Disgusted, I cut it off and planted it in a smaller pot. Now the skinny little trunk has a nice fat base.
defra
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I like that one. Here's what's left of my twin trunk Chinese Elm. It blew off the bench a couple months back and broke the whole top out of the main tree. Disgusted, I cut it off and planted it in a smaller pot. Now the skinny little trunk has a nice fat base.
Nice base !
Airlayer off the top and chop the trunk for super taper shohin lol
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Dawn redwood bought at garden centre for 6€ saturday
Probably going to be put in the ground or big flat box next year
VAFisher
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Not a bad idea. It has recently popped growth from around the chop site of the old main trunk. I may try to grow it as a twin trunk after all with the old smaller trunk being the new bigger one. That could turn out to be a long process though so getting 2 trees out of it sounds like a decent option. Here's what it looked like before the unfortunate accident. The main trunk broke off about 1/2 way up. I tried to treat it like a big cutting but I wasn't able to grow new roots on it. Oh well.
Pots, this tree was once grafted on JBP stock, but the nebari you see is its own roots. Boon bought this tree in Japan over 20 years ago. And imported it. When he got it home, and he repotted it, he found two layers of roots! One set lower down on JBP, and one at the soil line. Evidently, the tree ground layered itself! Whether this was done purposely or is a happy accident of nature, we will never know.Amazing
Anyway, the JBP roots were removed, many years ago, so it's on its own roots.
Here's a close up of the nebari:
To my eye, it looks like the second trunk was once just a branch. And it was buried deep, and when the JWP roots started growing, the nebari fused with that branch to become a twin trunk tree. Over time, the tree has been lifted, and this mound of nebari has developed. It almost looks like a root over rock.
Here is the back of the tree today:
That's about the same angle as the one with me leaning over it at Boon's. It's much, much fuller now! And the backbudding is still happening.
A current view from the front:
This is a Zuisho JBP. This variety and Kokonoe are known to be easy to layer. Other JWP varieties are not.
For grins, here is a picture of what it looked like when I first acquired it:
ghues
Omono
It looks soooooop much happier if your environment. Great story too Adair.
Cheers Graham
Cheers Graham
VAFisher
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