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Try dwarf Norway spruce
don't seem like it...Try dwarf Norway spruce
don't seem like it...
Just a question. Thee out out of the 5 have a ton of new needles. 2 still are as green as when I bought them but had no winter buds and are doing nothing now. Are these going to die? Or create winter buds next july?
wow! that's new for me!I've seen spruce sit and not grow buds for two or three years then pop all over. They can do that.
They can also sit for a season or three like that and then die. I guess anyways, haven't actually had one do that but I'm sitting on a couple that haven't grown a bud for two years now, could go either way. Green is good.
Yeah, don't give up hope. Sometimes when they recover from that they do so strongly with tons of back budding.wow! that's new for me!
Fingers crossed
I believe these are not picea abies. For sure they are weak. I paid like 5 bucks for each. It was all they had.If it is picea abies then according to stage of the foliage it is super weak. It is strange to have trees from nursery in such state. They tend to thrive in good conditions. They look like collected spruces from very harsh conditions. My spruces collected from such conditions tend to recover in 1-3 years and back-bud well.
My closest guess (because they look like what another nursery has them marked as) is Oriental Spruce o picea orientalis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picea_orientalisThey don't look much like my P. abies. What about Engelmann spruce, Picea engelmanni?
Thanks Andrew, I have been wanting to go back and get 2 more!Good candidates! We need more spruce forests in the bonsai world! Good luck!
Thanks Andrew, I have been wanting to go back and get 2 more!
http://www.stonelantern.com/How_to_bonsai_tree_forests_and_rock_plantings_book_p/b1kato.htmwow that book is pricey! nice spruce's! I too want to make a forest planting with mine someday. looking forward to updates! good info in this thread already! you guys are great.
looks like Norway Spruce; Picea Abies.If you have a plan of what goes where, it may pay to go straight to a slab that you epoxy tie downs in the right places. I would make this planning be step 2.5.
Otherwise, you'll have a tricky task of wiring the trees to a board, a sheet of mesh, or a bamboo frame, or something along this line to make your actual forest design. I've done it this other way and found to be full of 'annoyances' .
Regardless, keep step 4 !
Maybe, in a word.don't seem like it...
Just a question. Thee out out of the 5 have a ton of new needles. 2 still are as green as when I bought them but had no winter buds and are doing nothing now. Are these going to die? Or create winter buds next july?