Frankenstein Tamarix

[Cadillactaste]

Just for my own remembrance. Bonsai Bark's Mother's Day 2020 newsletter...where he listed several women of bonsai. (Jennifer Price as well was mentioned among others.) That this image found it's way in the newsletter BLEW MY MIND! Screenshot the newsletter showing my image...and credit given to me. Me... plain old vanilla...hick town gal. I was so honored.

But...honestly at the end of the day, one has nothing to prove to anyone...but themselves.
~Enjoy your journey

 

[coh]

Great lighting in that image. Looks like the tree is developing well and has adapted nicely to pot culture.

 

[Forsoothe!]

They may or may not be drought tolerant, but they are considered invasive because they populate waterway edges and crowd out natives. I don't think they prefer or do best in rocky bonsai soils. Their seeds float along the edges and germinate there. Big time pests.

 

[leatherback]

Now I NEED ONE!

You know I have one sitting here with your name on it right?

 

[leatherback]

They may or may not be drought tolerant, but they are considered invasive because they populate waterway edges and crowd out natives. I don't think they prefer or do best in rocky bonsai soils. Their seeds float along the edges and germinate there. Big time pests.

I find the love water. Mine is the only plant that sits over a tray with water all summer.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Great lighting in that image. Looks like the tree is developing well and has adapted nicely to pot culture.

Thanks, yes...finally has taken to thriving over the weak tree I had collected from the yard which for some reason didn't do well with back to back arctic winters.

They may or may not be drought tolerant, but they are considered invasive because they populate waterway edges and crowd out natives. I don't think they prefer or do best in rocky bonsai soils. Their seeds float along the edges and germinate there. Big time pests.

I have heard they can be quite invasive. Must be a location thing. as long as I've had this...even before collecting and training. It has never popped up anywhere around my land or anything. I live lake front as well.

 

[penumbra]

Darlene, I love this plant and its development. Always wanted one but the are hard to find here for an invasive plant. Your picture is very cool. Looks like its sitting in a primeval forest.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Darlene, I love this plant and its development. Always wanted one but the are hard to find here for an invasive plant. Your picture is very cool. Looks like its sitting in a primeval forest.

Thank you. I came about it by admiring it in bloom in a yard in town. I stopped one day and asked about it. The owner had no idea what it was. So she clipped the branch off and said to take it with me to the nursery. Come to learn it was a Victorian era beloved plant. Invasive in parts of the country...but not here. So they ordered me two in. One died with that back to back arctic winters. The other was this one. It is sitting at the base of our waterfall here. Ever since, I seen it popping up here and there. But sadly many lost theirs to the arctic spells.

 

[Clicio]

You know I have one sitting here with your name on it right?

I will take it gladly and in person!
Prepare the coffee!

 

[leatherback]

will take it gladly and in person!
Prepare the coffee!

 

[ShadyStump]

This whole thread has been a treasure trove for me. We have friends with one growing wild in their yard. They love it, but in my region they're officially considered noxious weeds. Between that knowledge and what you guys have dropped, I now have no worries about experimenting like a mad scientist on them.
Does anyone know how they handle drought conditions when potted?
Thanks so much!

 

[leatherback]

Does anyone know how they handle drought conditions when potted?

Mine has shown droopy young growth and dropping of the fine branches

 

[Cadillactaste]

Mine has shown droopy young growth and dropping of the fine branches

Wow, I've not had that happen, but we've not seen a severe drought either. Worst case is I'm late in watering, and the tips get limp. Water and it perks back up. Climate surely has a lot to play into how each of these behave for each person.

 

[ShadyStump]

Mine has shown droopy young growth and dropping of the fine branches

Thanks!
I ask because I'm in a semi-arid climate where every summer is like a drought, then cold arctic winters half the time. Yet, they've gone wild and are invasive growing 20 feet tall easy, so I'm trying to wrap my head around it.

 

[leatherback]

I ask because I'm in a semi-arid climate where every summer is like a drought, then cold arctic winters half the time. Yet, they've gone wild and are invasive growing 20 feet tall easy, so I'm trying to wrap my head around it.

There is a difference between something growing in a pot and let dry out vss an established plant that might have tapped into the ground water?

 

[Vance Wood]

There is a difference between something growing in a pot and let dry out vss an established plant that might have tapped into the ground water?

Most of us in the USA who grow Larch are familiar with the Eastern Larch which is intolerant of cooked roots, Larix Laricina. You however have access to Eiuropean Larch, Larix Decidua which is native to your environment and as such should be tolerant of your environment.

 

[ShadyStump]

There is a difference between something growing in a pot and let dry out vss an established plant that might have tapped into the ground water?

Precisely. Around here tamarisk grow either right on the water's edge, or in alkalie fields that are intermittently flooded by heavy rains.
Everything else in my meager collection is either very drought tolerant, or I can just set it in a bucket of water while I'm gone if I, say, go camping for a week. But some trees only thrive in a certain moderate zone of wet soil, but dry roots. Can I put this one in a bucket or tub of water for a week like the willow cutting I just potted, or do I need to get more inventive?

 

[leatherback]

Can I put this one in a bucket or tub of water for a week like the willow cutting I just potted, or do I need to get more inventive?

Mine sits on top of a dish of water, which fills every time I water. THe roots jump through the drainage hole to have a ittle sip.

 

[Clicio]

Mine sits on top of a dish of water, which fills every time I water. THe roots jump through the drainage hole to have a ittle sip.

It's called snake roots.

 

[Forsoothe!]

They do have a pretty stage in the middle of summer...