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    Collecting yews and time from field to pot?

    This has given me great encouragement I was able to collect from a hedge of only 2 ft tall some yews that have 3.5-4" bases not counting nebari. The die back was severe when whoever cut them back. They seem to have had a fair amount of time to recover based on the new branch thicknesses maybe 3...
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    Now or Never... yamadori

    I don't think you will have a lick of fun with that shovel the blade is too long it doesn't allow for your weight to be put on it unless your 7' somthing(LOL) I was a landscaper in Boulder and know the soil is thick and hard if its dry. As a landscaper we did irrigation and used a trenching...
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    Inorganic planting medium help

    The firing process lets the clay particles not break under frost conditions. If you don't have frost then maybe a cooler fire i.e. not as big would suffice. Again I refer you to the potters (not the wizards)
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    Inorganic planting medium help

    I dont know the access you have to a field for burning brush but the product 'Turface' that I use (originally designed for baseball diamonds) is nothing more than clay fired to 1400 degrees F (760 C) as the clay fires it expands microscopically, these holes then act as water retention units. I...
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    Escallonia Iveyi Effort

    I resign myself to a mistake the pot is a good size my bad it looked deeper to me at first.
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    Escallonia Iveyi Effort

    Looks like a good line like you said. The pot is huge even for a training pot in my opinion. The root ball might have been that big I don't know. Any how it is nice and I agree that to make the tree look believeable the branches all need to be forshortened. Is it a species that back buds well...
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    Update on burning bush

    I am a new bonsai person artist? Whatever. I like your burning bush it is showing awesome potential. I have only been serious about bonsai for two seasons now dabbled for three before that but from what I have read of them they recover rapidly. I am thinking it may be the shrub verses a tree...
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