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[Bonsai Nut]

Dug a bunch of 40 year-old Japanese hollies out of landscape. I had chopped these hard two years ago. Hoping that most of them survive the move! One of these will be going to @Brian Van Fleet .

 

[The Barber]

Dug a bunch of 40 year-old Japanese hollies out of landscape. I had chopped these hard two years ago. Hoping that most of them survive the move! One of these will be going to @Brian Van Fleet .

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That's a lot of trees to move, you should sell me one

Photo tax, Tilia Americana (I think) I collected a couple weeks ago.

 

[PowerTap]

Took a chop off the left trunk of my star magnolia now that it's done blooming. Need to cut the stub back next year, but this should help clarify the apex.

Before



After

 

[Arie Botanie]

This is how I collected it. Along the way there was a chop. Today I wired it. Now I'm waiting for the buds to break and put it in a decent soil instead of soaking wet organic soil.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

How did I win that lottery, @Bonsai Nut ?
photo tax…didn’t work on trees today, but did run a little race.

 

[Shogun610]

Black spruce (p Mariana ) on lace rock .., corn starch , akadama fines , bit of mud and sphagnum for muck walls

 

[Paradox]

Sifted and mixed more soil today for repotting tomorrow. Also cleaned some old soil I had from last year that I want to try baking on the grill to burn off some of the roots and other debris in it that won't sift out.
Sorry no pictures for today, it's just sifted soil.
There will be pictures tomorrow as I do repotting

 

[snowman04]

Got my 5 pines from Curtis today! Excellent as always...



Put them in some small starter pots until fall when they will go into the ground.

 

[RobGA]

How did I win that lottery, @Bonsai Nut ?
photo tax…didn’t work on trees today, but did run a little race.
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That’s a great pace! Is that a PB?

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

That’s a great pace! Is that a PB?

Thanks, it’s the only 5k road race I’ve done, so yeah. The last 1.2 mile was 130‘ of climb, so I lost some time and missed my sub-20:00 goal by just a little.

 

[leatherback]

Continued the process of rebuilding an overgrown japanese maple.

When I got it 3 years ago it really was weak and needed a health boost. Now it is ready to goooo!

 

[Bonsai Nut]

How did I win that lottery, @Bonsai Nut ?
photo tax…didn’t work on trees today, but did run a little race.
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LOL I sent you a note about it two years ago... you probably thought I forgot Or else you forgot

 

[Weta]

Daydreaming and researching original pots/scenes, one that popped to mind was the Hanging Gardens and found this example on line.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

LOL I sent you a note about it two years ago... you probably thought I forgot Or else you forgot

All me, my friend. But it’s starting to come back.

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

Bought this boxwood a couple of weeks ago. Cleaned it up a bit and repotted it today in a sweet @BrightsideB pot.



Spinning the wheel to find a front.



This side shows the trunk movement. It's five and half inches tall.

 

[BrianBay9]

Club workshop today. Weather cooperated nicely.

 

[Fidur]

Right now, in my garden....

 

[Deep Sea Diver]

My first thought, I suppose, is “when then would I learn how to wire?”

I actually just unwired another tree, which was wired a few trees after the previous one, and I noticed quite a large improvement in my own technique. My general philosophy at this point is that I will damage my trees while learning, and wire scars and dieback are parts of the process, to be avoided, but not fully able to be.
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(some larger pieces left on)

I do notice that it’s important to “pick your battles” with wrap wire. This is something I see in the trees of some of the more advanced practitioners that I follow.

ime one has to study a lot and wire a real lot to get good at wiring in all different circumstances.

Practice on fallen tree branches . That’s what we did, over and over, then wired azaleas and pines.

Certain trees like maples and fruit trees are not the best subject to practice wiring on as it’s mainly one and done and off to clip and grow with small amounts of wire strategically to develop the tree properly. See Andrew Robson lecture at PSBA recently.

imo if one wants to learn how to wire…nursery azaleas are actually really good to learn technique on and are really cheap (8-10.00) this time of the year. There are many reasons for this recommendation - sorry won’t enumerate due to too much work left.

Another good choice to practice on are nursery mugos. Again cheap etc. Different reasons.

****. To keep true to the threads intention…

So today helped initial landscape #2 daughter’s backyard (first purchase, a townhome). 3 heather, 6 azaleas, 1 dissectum maple, one mugo, 3 ferns, 3 hydrangea, and a couple others. All relatively small…. Big worklist remains on this house. Including a new gate and fence… etc..etc

Now off to pot a couple azaleas of our own.



cheers
DSD sends

 

[Bonsai Nut]

Dug a bunch of 40 year-old Japanese hollies out of landscape. I had chopped these hard two years ago. Hoping that most of them survive the move! One of these will be going to @Brian Van Fleet .
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Just want to say... true love is when your wife of 30+ years is there to help you trim roots off your landscape finds

 

[bwaynef]

This batch is giving me my best results so far. The ones pictured aren’t the best. Mark Comstock has taken an interest in mentoring me and I’ve learned a good bit from him. Not surprisingly he has been telling me most of these things for a while but I was too stubborn to do WHAT he says. Some of the upper echelon got planted into individual containers. The rest may be managed again before potting.