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  1. Emrys

    Looking for a holiday gift for my son!!!!

    Does anyone have a shohin sized cork bark Chinese Elm or Zelcova they are interested in selling? My son is obsessed with the tree i attached here. He keeps asking for me to "GIVE" it to him. He is seven. I want to get him something he can call his own and that we can work on together.
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    Powdery Mildew on Juniper

    Have any of you had Powdery Mildew on your Junipers? Does the attached photo look like Powdery Mildew to any of you? If so can you recommend a good treatment from your experience?
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    Overwintering in hoop house.

    I am planning to build a relatively small and simple hoop house to over winter my trees in. I was wondering if any of you have a recommendation for a good plastic material for the cover. And what about the transparency vs opacity issue. Light needed or not. Conifer vs deciduous needs relative...
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    Ponderosa Question

    I am wondering for those of you who have real experience with Ponderosa is it normal for them to shed 2 or 3 year old needles around this time? I have more to ask and show but i just wanted to start with this question for now.
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    Acidic soil amendment for Larch

    Does anyone growing Larch in the northeast or elsewhere have an acidic soil amendment that they can recommend.
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    Do flys poop? No but they do vomit.

    So I have hunch/theory about what this strange black goo is. About two weeks ago I found these red cocoon things clustered under a pile of Green Dream that I had applied to the surface of this tree. With the help of trusty Bnutter Beng we identified these as fly larvae. Take look...
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    Is a Fungus among us??

    It starts out looking like this Almost like someone splattered black lacquer on my plants. It's gooey and smears a bit. And then it dries out and flattens. Like this. Anyone know what this strange substance is. It's on almost all of my broad leaf plants. Once it's dry and before it...
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    Suspiciouse Grey Birch leaf issue!??

    Just noticed this on all of the leaves that have or are starting to harden off. Is this just the "grey" part of Grey Birch? Of a recognizable fungus?
  9. Emrys

    Bengs Spruce (Variety unidentified)

    So i thought i would share this recently acquired Spruce that I got from Beng. He has a great collection by the way. As I'm new and this tree is not I will be needing advice along the way. Ben has been a great help thus far but I wanted to release it to the wolves to get some well toothed...
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    Another ID challenge!!!

    The last one I posted seemed to be no problem for the B-Nutters. I'm assuming this will be an easy one as well. My son and I dug this sapling up for fun last spring from a mound of top soil that was off loaded in his schools garden. There are many old English elm trees in the neighborhood. I...
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    Help with identification

    I am visiting a friend on Shelter Island in NY State. There are many large flowering shrubs like the ones pictured below growing on the property. They have me intrigued for a few different reasons. But before I take my query further I need help identifying the species. The flowers smell...
  12. Emrys

    Instagram anyone??

    Do any of you post images of your trees on Instagram? If so, call out your Handle and if not, you should start.
  13. Emrys

    Newbie Alberta Spruce: I know a worthless cause...

    I realize how bad this is for so many reasons but I had to start somewhere. I need to raise one of the upper left branches and hope it stays alive.
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    Purple Smoke Bush, Cotinus coggygria and SANDY

    Does anyone have any experience with Cotinus coggygria? This is my first piece of material, urban yamadori. This was first sighted 2 1/2 years ago when I moved my business to Red Hook. It was vigorously growing in a very large planter in front of the space I rented. It had been quite beaten up...
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    Test

    Advice on newly collected and already poorly boxed material/Betula and Ulmus. Hi all! I'm new to this forum and new to the Bonsai Arts. I am however a longtime enthusiast, having been studying the techniques and practice academically off and on for many years now. What has kept me from taking...
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