This was my first Shimpaku, bought 10 years ago at Brussels. I didn't know a soul doing bonsai, didn't belong to a club, I thought I could learn everything I needed to know about bonsai from reading, after all, I bought a juniper at the mall 1 month earlier and it was doing fine. So on a trip to a few Civil War battle sites in the south and eating lunch at Corky's BBQ in Memphis, which is now my favorite BBQ joint in the south, we stopped by Brussels, after reading their ad in a magazine. I brought my treasure home in the back seat of my wife's car, while see sneezed for 500 miles, later learning she was allergic to the damn things ( helps to keep her out of my shade house so she doesn't recognize any new trees). But alas it never got styled, didn't even make it through the next spring, this is the tree that taught me about spider mites, expensive lesson. Right then and there I decided I needed to join a club, now I check my trees once a month after it warms up and spray if necessary.
keep it green,
Harry
keep it green,
Harry