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I have 2 pieris which much to my surprise I haven't managed to kill yet! I've even found a place for them in which they are happy and putting out new growth. But here is my problem, Due to using a bad batch of potting mix, I ended up repotting them last year, and noticed that there was no fresh...

How hard can you cut false cypress back? will it bud on bare wood?

What is the best way to get this tree, to go from this to this

Ok, I'm convinced, I'm going to give air-layering a go,(Never even been tempted to try before) I've got a couple of crab-apple trees in the yard, would one of them be a suitable first project?

Your comment is welcomed, Personally I wish I'd had two more trees.

One of the problems I face is getting the soil? to stay covering the trees rootsystem in a mounded style, I have a shallow dish, and have decided to try my hand at a forest, I promptly got out my books and started reading (As you do) One of the required materials seem to be "peat muck" which...

There is just no way around it, i have to get rid of some plants (I won't call them bonsai, although they are all bonsai in potential) I keep looking around thinking, I could get rid of some of them (Japanese maples, trident maples, liquidamber (Sentimental, raised from seed from a friends...

Now following all your excellent advice, I culled my plants and put 20 or so in the ground. (Tachici, I'll send Hubby after those tubes, and next winter, lift the trees and do as you recommend, sounds brilliant to me, I was thinking of laying something to restrain the roots, but atm, don't have...

I have noticed in passing that a lot of people recomend putting trees in the ground for a year or10, now I have several that I was considering turfing in a major cull, but I have an area, about 4mtrs by 1.5 along a fence (Full sun) and I was thinking, what if instead of turfing, I put them in...

Well should I?

I have a white pine (Someone has to teach me how to do thumbnails!) I don't know what sort of white pine it is, I was sold it as a grafted white pine. I have just been told that white pines will back bud on old wood, I always thought that they are extreamly reluctant to do this. but I'm...

Anybody know anything about crabapples?

I have limited money, and would love to do a forest, I have a couple of large dishes, but am wary of actualy planting on them, because of the heat here, I like to have larger , deeper dishes that hold a bit of moisture, but I must admit that I've seen some very striking mountain scenes etc using...

I have a japenese maple that I bought to learn how to do broom style, but I've changed my mind, it's not a good looking tree, (Far from it,) and to be truthful, I've just been ignoring it, with the theory that it needs time to grow some branches it doesn't really have any. is there anything that...

I have a japanese greybark elm that I've had for a few years, and 18mths ago slipped :eek: when triming it and did some damage:o :( I planted it in the garden to recover, and it's growing merrily, now its a very young tree, only 4-5yrs old at most, but I was wondering if I should just let it...

Hi, just dropped in to have a look, I'm in Australia, have black pines (Which I have next to no idea about, and regularly butcher my deciduas (So I can't spell) trees, but aside of that I keep them alive (for the most part) and seem to remain enthusiastic about bonsai. Recently I got given a...