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I don't blame you.... It's actually this time of the year that I've been lucky enough to have mine bloom, get the berries turned blood red, then bloom again, with the berries still on. When it happens is spectacular. Hope it happens for you.

I hope you post progression pics of it, from time to time....... I'd love to see how it goes.

It's a lovely BC. I would suggest a little more trimming, just to keep the spaces between the leaves, shorter and the leaves themselves, smaller. Are you going for a cascade or semi cascade? I know I have a hard time with the idea of trimming them as they're about to bloom....LOL Then, the...

They are fun and so forgiving to work with. I have started a few cuttings this year, from the one I have left. I had been thinking of letting one of them grow in it's natural, weeping form. I bet it's beautiful..... probably something like the wisteria in form?

It's hard not to feel loss when you've invested so much of yourself in the process, sometimes decades..... I started a San Jose' juniper from a cutting, back in the early 80s. It went through a lot of re-stylings, over a 30 period. I loved what it had become...a really impressive literati...

I have had mixed results, cutting back and not leaving leaves... I think the woodier it is, the slimmer our chances are...but if the trunk too leggy, I'd try an air layer. They make cuttings so easily that I think an air layer would do well. If you cut back as far as you can and still have...

Just an update on the Barbados Cherry cascade..... I had mentioned that they are awfully brittle and break easily. This past Spring, we had a severe storm with high winds. When I went out to my bonsai shelves, next morning, it had snapped off right at the base. Broke my heart. I'd been...

If you, like many others, are in an area where you cannot pop him with a pellet gun, a rat trap, baited with peanut butter, might be a good solution. A friend of mine, used this technique quite effectively. Thinning the herd, usually helps. It just has to be repeated, every so often......

Well, it appears that the pecan trees being gone from our yard, has not completely solved the problem. I haven't had to shoot a squirrel in over 3 years. But last week, I found a bonsai with squirrel digging in the soil around the tree.... I had seen the path they take to my bonsai shelves...

I had 2 trees that had lost important branches and lost all hope of being restyled, but they each had very pretty tops with a lot of potential. They were both junipers of the variety called procumbens nana.... I think the correct name is squamata prostrata? Anyhow, it's very forgiving to work...

I really enjoyed this video...thank you for posting it. I did learn a couple things about podocarpus that will come in handy.

Hi again, Steve, yes, they are major landscaping material down here. They're everywhere in peoples yards. No protection needed for the occasional freeze or frost that we have....especially on the coast. I never considered them to be tropical but was surprised to read on line, that they are...

Thanks so much, Steve. I'm going to go ahead and work on it today. I have grown bonsai for over 40 years but never worked with this very common landscape plant as bonsai. I used to work in a couple of landscape nurseries, decades ago. One had been hired to completely re do a yard that had...

Thank you for the reply, Wilson. If you can do that in your location, I should be ok on the Gulf Coast of Florida.... I'm going to be doing the initial root work and put it into a shallow grow pot. If there are separate plants, instead of one base, I'll just do minimal root trimming on those...

I nearly had the same thing happen years ago.... our "pre teen" nephew, always watered my trees while we were away. One year, I had made arrangements with him and the day before we were to leave, we found out that his grandfather ( hubby's brother) was going to the Mountains and taking the boy...

I have grown quite a few tropicals over the last 40 years but never played with podocarpus. I wasn't even sure if it was a tropical or not. I have been reading some posts on BN and it appears that they are tropical. So, my question is, do I go by the same season guide for these, as I do for...

"Mine doesn't grow nearly as fast as you described." I might have exaggerated a tiny bit...LOL It seems like every time I looked at them, they needed rewired. 2 or 3 times during the growing season. Loose wiring allows me to leave the wires through a growing season and then some, if...

Thank you. These trees are very forgiving to work with and easy to start from cuttings. I've actually had trimmings that fell on the soil, root right where they fell. There are some things you need to know about them though.... I have it in the house for a day or 2 so I can enjoy the...

Malpighia Glabra, commonly known as Barbados Cherry. I could have posted this under flowering, fruiting, tropical or cascade, since it's all of those. This tree is about 24 inches from the bottom tip of the cascade to the apex. I love the bright pink flowers that are followed by blood red...

juniper cuttings I used to make cuttings of junipers all the time....some green stem and some more woody stemmed. Prepare a container of good rooting medium with mostly pearlite and a very small amount of dirt... take your cutting and dip the end into rooting powder/hormone and push the end...

squirrels... I do agree about poison..... no matter how frustrated I get regarding destructive animal pests, I won't use poison out in the open....you have no control over what gets into it. In a closed area like our garage or work shops, rat poison is put out but not much else could get to...

squirrels As long as it's not a squirrel and it stays out of my bonsai, all is well. Actually, the pecan trees were about 150 years old and we had to start removing them as they declined. I only started shooting the pests when they were destructive and quit when they left things alone...

squirrels We live in the remains of an ancient pecan grove. For the last 40 years, I have killed hundreds of squirrels. They always wanted to bury their pecans in my bonsai pots, ripping out the tree in the process. I tried various repellants but nothing seemed to work so I just popped them...

In the time since I last posted in this thread, the American Elm across the road from us had a bumper crop of seeds, of which several landed and sprouted. I have been pinching one and did a trunk chop on it while it was still small enough that the scared trunk would heal quickly. It gave some...