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  1. Dav4

    The V.W. Memorial Mugo contest.

    Swinging by Home Depot on the way home from work. It’s unlikely they’ll have a great selection of trees this early but you never know.
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    The VW memorial Mugo contest

    Well, if the weather allows, I’ll be swinging by Home Depot on the way home from work. Being Michigan, most landscape nurseries don’t have stock available until April but the box stores play by different rules, so we’ll see.
  3. Dav4

    Will it form buds this season if I cut back now?

    OK, so I have a relatively young and still vigorously growing Japanese white pine. I’ve been working on building the branching and ramification over the last few years and pinching extending candles, and cutting back judiciously over the last two summers. Despite this, this pine continues to act...
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    Happy pre Fourth of July weekend!

    It’s the Friday morning before the long Fourth of July weekend… It’s sweltering out in southern Michigan with a dewpoint over 70° and strong sunshine despite the smoke filled air. I just finished de-candling about one third of my Japanese black pines before I have to head out to work, then I am...
  5. Dav4

    This Ume flowers!!

    Ok! I got this ume 'Kobai' from Brent as 1 gal a few years ago and planted it in my front yard in GA. Of course, it barely had a chance to establish itself when it was literally uprooted, stuffed in the nursery can and moved up to MI. If it had stayed in the ground in GA, I'd bet the trunk...
  6. Dav4

    It's getting chilly and Fall colors are beginning to pop!

    It's been in the 40's F the last few mornings and there were a few 30's this morning north and west of me... Fall is here! The trees are just beginning to show some fall color- something that rarely happened in GA- and I took some pictures to mark the transition. It'll be fun to update here as...
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    Spider mites… In Michigan!

    Arrrgggggh!!!
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    My Telperion Farms Japanese White Pine

    I was surprised I hadn't started a progression thread on this one but apparently hadn't so here goes! I acquired this tree back in the fall of 2019. Even though the condition of the tree upon receiving... upside down inside a trash bag the shipping box with half the soil spilling out of the...
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    My yew thread

    These two trees have been following me around since I lived in Massachusetts. They spent 12 years in Georgia and survived, though I can’t say that they thrived. Truthfully, I lost interest in them and relegated them to the back shady spot of my benches where they were watered but rarely...
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    Colorado Blue Spruce # 2

    Here is the other Colorado Blue Spruce that I scooped up from Todd Schlafer at the Nationals last September. This one was actually too tall to fit into @Adair M 's Tesla, so it road back to GA in a vendor's trailor who was also transporting exhibition trees. It was worked on by Tyler and me in...
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    Colorado Blue Spruce #1

    This tree, collected by Todd Schlafer, was the first tree I acquired, at the NBE in Rochester last year, after committing to the move to MI. CBS are uber cold hardy and wouldn't require any babying in southern MI, so it made sense to me... plus the trunk was fantastic and the price was decent...
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    Two more field grown Ume

    I thought I started a thread on these two last year but apparently not... so here we go! These two were sourced from Brent at Evergreen Gardenworks at least 13 years ago as seedlings. They were planted in my yard in MA for approximately 3 months before they were dug up and shoved into 1 gal...
  13. Dav4

    A Japanese maple

    I figured today was as good a day as any to start a thread on this tree... it was almost 60 F and the maples in the cold room are bound to wake up sooner or later and this one was on the list of re-pots this year. It originally came from Kennett Bonsai and fell off the back of Tyler Sherrod's...
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    Sourcing landscape material to accent new garden in the era of pandemic supply chain issues

    I'm in the final stages of planning my bonsai display garden as well as touching up the landscaping around the house. Unfortunately, it seems that sourcing slightly less common grafted conifers like weeping P. densiflora or strobus- two of my faves for landscaping- along with other select...
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    Source of Japanese white pine seedlings

    Living in GA, I grew to really enjoy working with JBP seedlings, but with the move to MI, I've decided to try my hand at JWP. Unfortunately, I'm having difficulty sourcing them. I've reached out to @kingsville grower and Matt Ouwinga but haven't heard back from either. I'm planning on trying...
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    Working with Tyler Sherrod

    Back in 2018, I was lucky enough to meet Tyler Sherrod, a NC native who had finished his 5 year apprentice under Shinji Suzuki in Nagano, Japan, won the top prize at Kokufu while there and was back stateside building his own bonsai business at Dogwood Studios, https://www.dogwoodstudiosnc.com/...
  17. Dav4

    Moving my large bonsai collection... again!

    12 years ago, I moved from MA to GA in late June, and I brought my trees with me. I was a decade plus into the hobby and had about 80 trees of varying species and sizes, none too developed but many having good potential. I rented a 26' moving van to move the trees along with some furniture...
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    Collection reduction Sale!

    Well, the time has come for me to reduce the size of my collection. These trees excluding the holly have all been in my collection for at least 4 or 5 years, and some for much longer. I will link the progression threads associated with said trees... if more current pictures are wanted, send me...
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    It's that time of year!

    Re-potting season is officially underway! ... and my garage suddenly is filling up with trees that can't stay out in the incoming cold:)
  20. Dav4

    What adhesive to attach wire tie downs to rock prior to planting.

    Hey, I'm wondering what people have used to attach wire tie downs to some lace rock in preparation for planting. I'm thinking 2 part epoxy but am open to other thoughts or specific product recommendations. Fwiw, I'm using steel wire as I want it to eventually rust away.
  21. Dav4

    Merry Christmas from Georgia!

    … And a white Christmas to boot!… Well kind of… :-)
  22. Dav4

    Would you?

    I found this tulip poplar leaf in my backyard while putting some smaller trees away this afternoon, and that’s a size 12 sneaker next to it. I’ve got a love/hate relationship with the species… Magnificent, fast growing and extremely large once mature, so perfect for a large area, but weak...
  23. Dav4

    My deadwood thread

    I’ve got several collected junipers, along with landscape collected conifers including more junipers and yews, that all have deadwood features, some naturally occurring and others carved by me. Some have been recently cleaned and bleached with lime sulfur, and others are in dire need of it.
  24. Dav4

    Gonna be busy today

    Lots of Decandling to be done today… Or maybe tomorrow :-). For what it’s worth, these are all smaller trees… The larger ones were decandled 7 to 10 days ago.
  25. Dav4

    April in Georgia.

    Two things you can count on if you do bonsai in Georgia... April brings lots of seasonal work AND severe weather... 😕... working in the garage today. And it’s trash day, too, so the garage is a mess😬
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