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Hello, I wanted to field a quick question. I am currently working a shantung maple that was chopped and allowed to regrow three leaders. I am styling it in an open umbrella style. I am getting some very nice growth on the branches. Is it preferable, on maples, to allow this growth to...

Hello all, I wanted to see if I could get some advice from the more experienced members of the community. I am planning (next Spring) to repot/up-pot a few of my trees into grow boxes/pots. I understand ground planting is best but for several reasons the grow boxes are my best choice. I...

I was hoping to get some suggestions. In August of this year, my niece will turn three. She has shown (as much as a three-year-old can) an interest in gardening. Starting in March, we will be planting some really basic flowers and vegetables in a area at her house. I would like to get her a...

OK, so I picked up a nursery stock Common/Persian walnut over the holiday (Juglans regia) to experiment with. It was decent sized (2.5-3 inch base, roughly 25 inches tall). I have been looking online for some kind of information and have been somewhat of a bust. I know that they have compound...

Just got this in from a nursery. Bought it as a gift for the wife who absolutely loves blueberries. I have no plan to style before spring so I have plenty of time to ponder it but would love to hear suggestions and ideas…

I have recently expanded my tropicals collection. Normally, I would put them under a grow light, keep them sheltered through the late fall and winter and then move them to a sheltered location in my garden. Any work I would do on them would be restricted to Spring and Summer like my temperate...

I have a bougainvillea that I am preparing for winter (Zone 8b) to come into the house. I have read a considerable amount of the sites and several mention that this is a good time for a hard prune to prepare for the Spring. Normally, I would not prune this late in the seasons but I think I...

This was a birthday gift from a friend. He purchased it at a big box store that shall remain nameless. While I normally try and avoid these, I was touched that he put some thought into the gift. I took it out of the horrific morass of organic material it was in, put it in some decent soil up...

This is one of two Skunkbush sumacs (Rhus Trilobata) that I picked up a few years back at a local landscaping nursery. I currently am working on the nebari. I had to emergency repot it a bit late in the season because it was rooting through the grow box and found that some of the root...

Broom style Yaupon Holly (formerly Japanese Boxwood) This was a birthday present from the family about a month ago. I like the pot it is in but I may try and find a shallower one depending on the weather in the next few years. There was a considerable amount of fine root showing when I got...

I picked up an unusual succulent this last week from the local nursery. After some research, I think that I am going to play with it a bit. I did red several of the posts regarding the viability of the Desert Rose as a bonsai. I understand somewhat of where the traditionalists are coming from...

Hello, I have been working with Bonsai for some time. Like most that start the hobby/art through books and online presence, I have killed my fair share of stock in learning the nuances of agriculture as well as my local area. I live in Zone 8b (southern New Mexico) and one of the things...

I had a quick question about the use of guy lines/guy wires and anchors. I have several boxwood I would like to adjust branches on but the branches have already hardened. For the most part, these branches are not thick (a few on a larger specimen are) but they are definitely beyond the “young...