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[NashsMan]

Back to my volunteer docent gig at my club's bonsai pavilion at https://www.novaparks.com/parks/meadowlark-botanical-gardens.
120 visitors today, so I talked almost nonstop from 10 AM to 5 PM.
I did manage to work on a bald cypress and a juniper.

 

[Joe Dupre']

I wired up Athena, the crepe myrtle. I pruned some of the longer branches for symmetry. Too many branches, but I can always prune them later. Not bad growth for a bit less than 3 months.

 

[Hack Yeah!]

I wired up Athena, the crepe myrtle. I pruned some of the longer branches for symmetry. Too many branches, but I can always prune them later. Not bad growth for a bit less than 3 months.

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I just pulled this crepe myrtle out of the dead tree area, I guess I'll call it Phoenix! It died last winter and grew a shoot, so I tried to make lemonade and wrapped the new shoot around the dead trunk for some shape and it died again, if it really grows this year maybe I'll protect it better this winter...lol.

 

[Joe Dupre']

I just pulled this crepe myrtle out of the dead tree area, I guess I'll call it Phoenix! It died last winter and grew a shoot, so I tried to make lemonade and wrapped the new shoot around the dead trunk for some shape and it died again, if it really grows this year maybe I'll protect it better this winter...lol. View attachment 598194View attachment 598195

You have a nice, chunky base there.

 

[shohin_branches]

Today we worked on the trees at Lynden with Suthin Sukosolvisit. Being one of the top 6 volunteers with the most hours last year I got a 3 hour session with him to work on one of my trees as well.



Before and after of the larch I worked on

Suthin working on my limber pine.

 

[leatherback]

Had an interesting day giving a workshop, outside this time. I think this was a first!

 

[KateM]

It's turtle season again.
Helped this box turtle cross the road.

 

[The Barber]

It's turtle season again.
Helped this box turtle cross the road.
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So many of them here Ive counted as many as 8 in the road on the way to work. Luckily the area is pretty low traffic.

Once again, flooding here in Kentucky...this year has been insane. Oh and tornadoes rolled through the state killing at least 20 people. Took out the medivac hangers, and a lot of homes. Saw these photos of the tornados path on WKYT.

 

[Japonicus]

2 days ago between storms I got this Sargent juniper repotted. Last repot 4/2018.

...and broke a nice jin off

 

[KateM]

How is that for a nebari?

 

[baldone]

My first butcher job on a bald cypress.

 

[Carol 83]

Out with the trops. They'll spend a week in the shade before they go to their summer home on the patio.

 

[shohin_branches]

Day 2 working on Lynden collection trees with Suthin. I was pretty tired today so I didn't take a lot of photos.
This is the Boxwood I worked on but I forgot to take an after photo.

I love working with Suthin because he's always cracking jokes with us.

 

[Hack Yeah!]

Googled satsuki azalea randomly because mine is currently blooming and saw you can buy one from Brussels through Home Depot for $28, they're $40 on Brussels site..

 

[Brain Treez]

I relegated three boxwoods to the lowest level of work priority otherwise known as "Stick them in the ground and if they never come out again I won't be upset."

 

[pandacular]

Threw a pot around an airlayer I set in the spring

 

[BobbyLane]

Misted these recently collected Elms and bagged them back up.
I imagine by now, the current leaves would have shrivelled up, because I didnt get hardly any feeder roots.
Plus bad timing.

im using the sweating method. I sort advice from Sean the apprentice with these, the chap who works with Harry Harrington. I have followed the steps, saturated the soil initially, then you just mist periodically, without watering again. Soil should be moist, not wet.
They're in deep shade still. The wet moss on surface helps to raise humidity.
I mist in evenings when there's no sun. Fingers crossed!

 

[shohin_branches]

Started partial defoliation on my hornbeam forest before work, but it was so cold out this morning I came in when I couldn't feel my fingers.

 

[Ruddigger]

Did a little work on this Kishu tanuki. I picked this up November 2024 from the family of a deceased club member. I wanted something of his to put in our club show this October. It’s starting to get healthy finally.

 

[brentwood]

Lost the air layer on my seiju elm, cut back to what looks like good wood - crossing my fingers now it buds.
Maybe started a little early, mighty have been limping after a very cold winter - 50/50 now.
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