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I love how half of the posts were Crotchety McCrotchersons shaking their cane at FB. Feel free to focus your apocalyptic FB opinions to something more appropriate then an announcement about a Bonsai Auction community that has 10k members... It's your choice how to use the platform, not the...

Actually, here it is after only 1 growing season... I managed to completely rethink the trunk, successfully graft ezo spruce and train it for the equivalent of 60 years. All in 1 year!

Vicn, thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, the tree will most likely be cut down in the next 24hours-48hours. The two dogwoods are tagged for removal. The 6" caliper dogwood is proabaly 12-15 tall. Without pruning and depending on the size of rootball we could achieve, the tree could...

Prudent in that the tree is getting cut down and thrown into a woodchipper regardless of what I do anyway?

Looking to potentially collect this Dogwood from being removed for a construction project. There are 2 dogwood. One has a 6" wide trunk and the other is about 9-10". Is it wishfull thinking that I can have the arborist cut the trunk about 18" from the ground and collect about a basketball...

It's hard to determine in the trunk photo the white spots so I circled them in red....

Hey All, Started noticing stationary white spots that have slowly developed up the trunk, to the main branches, and now it looks like tips of leaves. I water with DC tap water which, and I know I'm going to get knocked for it, I have not tested yet. No other species in my tight spaced...

Wow, thanks for the replies all. My back yard unfortunately does not get much sun during the day. Even though it's right next to my cactus/succulents, it is not in the least treated the same nor does it receive a great deal of direct sunlight. I did initially have it where it was getting...

Hi All, I'm having some concerns with my boxwood that I picked up this year from Nature's Way this past April. From my understanding, this was part of a few that Walter Pall had styled and sold at the nursery. I did a repot in mid-April where I removed maybe 30-40% of the root mass. The pot...

Thanks for the reply All, The soil should be relatively dry. DC/MD/VA has been pretty dry this Spring and I hand water once in the morning. This is a 1L/1P/1A mix that was sifted and has been in the same colander for 2-3 years now. I sprayed with neem oil this year in February as it was very...

I'll try to get some more photos this weekend. I have a pretty notorious indoor wooly problem. And yes, usual my maples outdoors have some issues. So far, my kiyohime that's like 2 feet away has nothing on it. It looks like cotton webby crap inbetween all of the new candles and soon to be...

Just took a close up look at my JBP that I have had in development for a couple of years now. This will be year 3 in the colander. I really expect this year to be the launching pad for some serious trunk girth building. Problem is, it looks like I may have an unbelievably severe wooly aphid...

That tiny little flesh wound couldn't hurt a fly. If a trunk chop won't kill the tree it's extremely rare for a branch to die from a small cut. The only thing that has a better chance of killing the branch is the stress from wiring the branch itself.

This needs to grow free for another 5-10 years without any work. Put it in the ground, forget about it, and come back in like 10 years. You'll be much more happy with how the tree will look.

That's in front of the portrait gallery on China Town if I'm not mistaken. Not sure what it is but I'm pretty positive it's not a maple or a cherry. The bark and the girth of the trunk don't scream cherry.

I've been pretty diligent on keeping pests away. A kojo no mai cherry had aphids which transferred to the maple but I removed all of them the same day and the infestation has been in check and is completely gone. Every year, they seem to push out the first new growth of spring, harden off...

Could this be from over fertilizing? I have 4 tea bags of cotton seed and guano. Occasionally hit with some fish emulsion and other low level organics.

Without fail. The tree pushed real hard out of the spring gate. Everything looked incredibly healthy. The new growth has started to become disfigured and such. This may be normal "wear and tear" but it seems to happen almost every year. The tree looks amazingly healthy for the first month...

Update on the spruce. Brought this up to Nature's Way and received some great advice from Walter Pall and the rest of the class. Removed almost 4" from the top of the root all to reveal the nebari. Kept the three main trunks. Jinned the top of the short apex #3. A little Jin on apex #2. And...

I'm lucky enough to live about 20 minute city drive from the arboretum. These were some pictures last year. http://www.bonsainut.com/threads/good-day-for-the-national-arboretum.18774/ I thought the exact same thing about last years event. I saw $300 and at the time I was basically broke so I...

What would the estimated shipping cost on the 3-4" trunks to 20020 be?

Great stuff John! Thanks for sharing your garden and inspiring the rest of us. On a side note, I find it very difficult to find any information on or how to obtain great rock planting rocks. It's one thing to search around different nurseries for decent material but how do you come upon all...

Prepped my box today. Pressure treated 2x8's. Heavy as all get out. The root ball is currently 17x10. Inside box measurements are 19x7-1/2. Stapled the screen to the bottom but I'm a little nervous about the how much weight they will handle. I still need to add some 1x1s to elevate the box a...

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One more for hood measure. Can't wait to get this in a wooden box and wired up.