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I have a couple of Willows that I've been growing from cuttings and They have both developed a strange disease on the leaves at the ends of their longest branches. Does anyone know what this mite be? Is it caused by insects or fungus? My plan is to cut off the affected areas and hope it doesn't...

That's pretty much what I did with the window screen material in the picture. When ever my tree's start graduating to real pots I'll have to take a look for the hardware cloth your talking about. Thanks everyone for the responses!

One of the most annoying problems I've run into in the short time that I've been trying to grow trees in pots is squirrels. They will regularly dig in my pots, damaging and exposing the roots of my plants. Thus far they have only killed one tree (which they dug up three days in a row). Since...

Well it seems my harassment strategy worked. I was squeezing the pot until they came running out right before I watered the plant...and now they don't come running out any more so they've either left or wised up to my tactics. Unfortunately it's probably to late to re-pot this juniper now as...

This is a Yaupon Holly that I collected from my front yard about a year ago. Since collecting I really haven't done anything but let it grow which is probably what I'll do this year too. But in the mean time I'm pondering where it's eventually headed. Any advice on that would be appreciated...

These are fireants (little red biting SOBs). I'm thinking I might just bite the bullet and just repot the tree. I'm more concerned for me then I am for the tree in that process :p. Mike, I'm sorry to hear about your uncle. The ant poison I used isn't the dust type, it's little granules so I...

This spring I was looking forward to re-potting a juniper I got from a nursery last year into some better soil, but when I moved the pot I found that it is full of ants. I tried putting some ant poison around the drain holes of the pot and sprinkled some in from the top (wherever I could find...

Great! Thanks a ton.

Thanks for the advice. I can definitely wait till spring...that was my original plan. One other question I had on this material. Can it be trunk chopped or do I need to leave at least some foliage on it when I collect it?

Last spring some of the fine folks on this forum helped me identify some of the trees in by backyard as Sugarberry. Now I'm wondering if y'all could provide some recommendations on digging one up. Currently there is a sugarberry tree growing much to close to my fence and I figured since I need...

Hmmm, good info to know. Thanks!

Question on this plant: Would right now be an acceptable time to re-pot it? Some of the leaves are turning yellow and falling off, while others are a rather pale shade of green. I'm concerned that the soil it's in (what it came in from the nursery) is holding to much water. I've started...

This tree looks great! And thanks for posting the link to that online book on artistic foundations, it was very informative.

That photo has been my desktop wallpaper for the last couple months...but I have no idea what type of tree it is :(

Very nice pines! But I think my favorite was the first tree shown in the fourth video at the link you posted.

That's eggzactly what I was wondering. :p

My wife already told me I'm not allowed to get a pellet gun for squirrel shooting purposes. She also yells at me when I see them crossing the road and speed up :mad:.

I used a tape measure to verify my calibrated eye and it turns out the above estimations are correct, the trunk is approximately 3/4 of an inch at the base and 1/2 an inch at the sharp bend.

R.I.P. This tree was on the rebound, had lost all of it's adult sized leaves but was putting on loads of new growth at the base where I really wanted it, when the squirrels decided to dig all of the dirt out of it's pot three times in two days. This was more then it could handle. Of all the...

Darn! I read your post last night and meant to measure the trunk size this morning, but I forgot. Was to worried about getting eaten by mosquitoes. I would estimate the trunk at a 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch. I'll try to remember to get a better measurement tonight.

Here is a quick virt of what I had in mind when I saw this at the nursery... Obviously it would need a lot of work from that point and it would be dependent on where it back budded at.

I'd like to plant it in the ground to thicken it up, but can't right now because I'm hoping to move either this year or next. If I move before next spring then I'll plant it in the ground next year, otherwise I'll plant it in a large pot. With that in mind would it be best for me to trim it down...

Snobird, I would like to plant this in the ground to thicken it up a bit, but at least for now that's not really an option because I'm hoping to move soon. If I move before I re-pot it next spring then I will plant it in the ground, but if not then I'll put it in an extra large pot. Either way...

I picked this up at the nursery today. It's a Texas Sage which they have labeled as "Silverado Sage". I believe that's just a name for the variant with the very silvery leaves. My understanding is that these can be pruned back very hard and will back bud readily. From what I've read I think that...