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As a fellow local I'm curious which nursery you're referring to. I'll be interested to see what you find!

Some of the trees are going dormant, yes. We've been treated to a show by the maples and sweet gums this year. Lots of oranges and reds. The crape myrtles are also going bare between dormancy and strong winds. The tree the branches came from probably only had 10% of its leaves still attached but...

I've heard of willows roots easily in just water because they produce their own rooting hormone so that makes sense. i found some other feeds on hardwood cuttings that suggest planting in perlite and keeping it moist so I'll likely try that.

What do you pot them in when you do this? I can see why you'd have to keep em inside in Maine in the winter. Here I'd imagine outside is fine since the daytime temps rarely go below the 50s all winter and night temps only go below freezing a few nights a year.

Am I to take that to mean that because all the leaves are gone it won't grow roots? What would putting it in a bag in the fridge do then in that case?

The weather has been mid 70s to mid 80s since yesterday. The tree is just finishing losing all its leaves. I went and cut some interesting sections off the branches. I still saw plenty of green cambium so it would seem they are still good. I've stuck them in some water to soak until I'm sure of...

We just had some trimming done to our trees and I noticed a few interesting crape myrtle branches in the pile. These were cut off yesterday afternoon. The thickest is maybe an inch in diameter. How long would I have to put some cuttings from this in soil to attempt to get them to grow before...

I saw this on the Facebook auction. Beautiful pot! It sold about two minutes after being posted!

Sorry it took me so long to snap some new photos. I was moving all my trees today due to severe winds and grabbed a few shots of the oak. All the top runner shot up late summer and now the tree is about 6' tall. Base shot showing the now-deceased second trunk. And some shots of the tree...

Sorry I haven't been on for a while to see the messages. Thanks for reaching out, Barry. Colin, I'll post some photos shortly of the tree. Unfortunately it's no longer a double trunk. Seems I snipped too much off the roots on the smaller trunk or shocked it too much when transplanting and that...

I don't plan on giving up. I'm just trying to learn what I'm doing wrong. The teacher is a local second generation bonsai expert so I trust his advice. He has beautiful pines and does candle work several times a year. I haven't been able to take the trees to him to figure out what's wrong which...

I can try watering daily on the one that isn't completely dead and see what happens. I'm sure the bigger one is gone by now there's no sign of green. It always seemed like the soil was damp still below the surface the day after watering which was why I thought I was over watering and causing the...

The bigger one had been chopped down already by then but was doing ok. I suppose it's possible removing one of the two branches it had left did something. I don't know how big the tree was originally before it was chopped and I'm not sure how colonized the pot was with roots. I actually think...

It seems I'm doing a great job so far of growing the common Pinus muertus from a JBP. I've had no trouble growing other trees in my collection, but so far pines have been eluding me. The larger one in the pic I bought on impulse not realizing it had spider mites. It was a out a foot taller...

Thanks for the advice. That makes me feel more relaxed about it. The stuff I switched to is called SeaGrow. Its derived from seaweed and bonemeal and a few other meals and extracts. Though I have some green dream I could switch to using that instead since that is slow release. Fall domancy here...

JudyB I'm curious how they handle salts differently and what would necessitate the Kanuma in the mix? I have a beech as well so the knowledge would be helpful, especially when it comes time to repot it.

Short version: I have a copper beech. The leaves burned in a heat wave, put it under shade cloth, changed to stronger fert, now getting second flush of growth with much larger leaves. Is it the ferts causing it? Does the tree naturally replace burned leaves? Should I be worried about the size...

I'm planning to attend!

Finally I used up my bag of troll food.

What a beaut! Good to know about building the branching, I'm trying to do that on a blue atlas at the moment too. How long should we allow the branch to grow before cutting back?

Suicidal, child-killing street dog here. Soul Killing Civilization would make an amazing band name btw. Or maybe it's time to change my screename.....This is getting fun. :D Who are YOU then? Are YOU an authority? Explain immediately! If you have no verifiable and tangible explanation than...

No illicit sex? No gambling?? No drugs??? no meat-eating??!? What fun is that?

I'm curious if, in other's experience, the size of the pot also has an effect. Do these need a certain size of pot in relation to the tree in order for them to have enough root mass to create flower buds? Usually I see wisteria in semi-cascade pots that have some depth to them. I know that...

I've put probably 6-8 younger trees in colanders so far this year and aside from some insane winds that came through and blew one of my trees sideways in the pot, all the trees seem to be fine so far, including the blown over one. I water once every other day and only one tree has suffered sun...

I'm still very much a newbie when it comes to treating trees and I'm curious what other Blue Atlas Cedar owners use to treat their tree to prevent against spider mites and the like. I was using horticultural oil as a general treatment but it turns the blue needles green for a long time...