This weekend my local bonsai club is doing a BYOT workshop. My question is, what trees would benefit from being worked on this time of year? In my mind this is one of the worst times of the year to work on trees. You guys are welcome to correct me if I’m wrong. I’m just not sure what trees would benefit from a pruning/styling this late into fall.
Any thoughts?
In Houston, here were the things that kept me busy in November.
1) Needle pulling black pine. You can wire and prune this time of year as well.
2) Fall cleanup of juniper foliage. You can wire and prune this time of year as well.
3) Cutback of deciduous trees.
4) Removing wire from deciduous and broadleaf trees
5) Preparing deciduous trees for grafting in spring.
6) Working on juniper deadwood (define live veins, carving, removing moss, cleanup and preservation of deadwood, checking for boring insects)
I’d imagine that all of that may be done in Fort Worth also. Please tell everyone there I said hi!
Scott Barboza