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So five years ago I picked up a little saskatoon bush from the local nursery here and put it in the ground. This spring my landlord informed me that bushes and trees would be removed unless I did it myself. I'd been planning to train this one as a bonsai, but when I dug it out of the ground I...

Well I've been a beginner for almost 20 years. I began my adventures in my late teens, and without the guidance of anyone experience in bonsai I've had to learn by trial and error myself with the help of books and internet. I've killed my share, probably more than my share, and it's trial and...

Decided not to lurk so much. ;) The first reaction to this tree was wow...white. Then I started reading the comments in the thread, and really started to think about it. Personally, before I can say I like this tree or not, I need to see it with it's clothes on. How does it look in leaf...

heheh...Fortunately or not, I grew up spending time watering bedding plants at my grandmother's greenhouse business...and true or not, I can tell you that the sharp tongue of a matron proved to me that if I watered the plants from the top, they'd burn and I wouldn't get paid. :D My pocketbook...

Six of one, half a donzen of another.... We're slipping into the mid to low 20's (Celcius); the poplar west of me is beginning to turn yellow already, my tomatos are done. People keep reminding me the snow is coming. I love the change of seasons but am sad at the idea I won't be able to...

But wait a minute. Aren't you rescuing a tree if it's being neglected and uncared for? I know I've used this phrase in the past, but I genuinely believe that if I'm purchasing a tree from a shelf where it's not getting enough light, replacing the soil that it's in, trimming roots because they...

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Call me crazy for suggesting this.... ...Shishi-Odishi... Nobody dies, and you get to be kept up at night by the pleasant clunking. Plus, if the rats don`t get scared from the plonk, they might drown in the water container... Actually I share your rage. Right now the city is infested...

This is an interesting subject! On the one hand, it's sad that there is a decline in the art in Japan; however, what I tend to see is an evolution going on...perhaps bonsai is becoming regional rather than exclusively Asian in nature. How amazing is that! American East vs. American West vs...

I saved myself the trouble and bought a tomato instead. I'm fortunate in that the garden centres here that aren't big box only sell trees and shrubs that are tolerant for our particular zone. Oooo...the siberian larch that I'm going to be potting up and pruning this week... This isn't a...

Wintergreen Boxwood is the tree in question. There are a few of these available at the big box garden centre, and where 99.9% of the boxwood in question are zone 5 and beyond, the label on the wintergreen boxwood indicated it is hardy to zone 3. So I get excited! But I also get skepticle...

The first tree I ever bought was a juniper from Safeway that the clerk had been keeping submerged in a tray of water because she "knew that they needed a lot of water". That was my first bonsai pot. Over the years, I collected a lot of bonsai pots this way. Buy the tree, kill the tree, put...