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You raffia’d your leg? Are you planning a big bend?

Picture tax, I demo’d for a local club the other night. It’s an Itoigawa I grew from a cutting for the last 6 years. I was pretty happy with it for only having an hour and a half.

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You raffia’d your leg? Are you planning a big bend?

Picture tax, I demo’d for a local club the other night. It’s an Itoigawa I grew from a cutting for the last 6 years. I was pretty happy with it for only having an hour and a half.

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Lol! Well, the plaster under the wrap is pretty firm, so hopefully no bending. All the broken bones are just floating in place right now. They wanted the swelling to go down before they started reconnecting everything. Wednesday they put in all the plates, pins and screws.
 
Getting to have a new experience now that I’m stuck in Alexandria for a couple of months. I grew up in Texas and lived in Florida most of my life. I’ve never been in the mid or northern states when fall arrives and see how quickly some trees start turning up here. This tree was all green leaves last week and now half of them are yellow. I’ve never seen this at the start of fall.

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Getting to have a new experience now that I’m stuck in Alexandria for a couple of months. I grew up in Texas and lived in Florida most of my life. I’ve never been in the mid or northern states when fall arrives and see how quickly some trees start turning up here. This tree was all green leaves last week and now half of them are yellow. I’ve never seen this at the start of fall.

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One of the best things the midwest has to offer are the trees in spring and fall. :)

*Picture of the old Swamp White Oak that blocks all of my sunlight.. lol
 

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One of the best things the midwest has to offer are the trees in spring and fall. :)

*Picture of the old Swamp White Oak that blocks all of my sunlight.. lol
Pretty sure swamp white oak can be pruned…an arborist would thin out some of those vertical trunks and trim the broom top.
Worked a little on this juniper today
 

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Pretty sure swamp white oak can be pruned…an arborist would thin out some of those vertical trunks and trim the broom top.
Worked a little on this juniper today
The board has some arborists come out every now and then to thin it out a little but I think they might actually laugh if I told them I wanted more sunlight for my plants. 😅
Oh well, I do my best. And I love watching the squirrels fight over acorns, lol.

*picture is one of the front yard squirrels, having a snack
 

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These oaks needed to go, so I rescued them as yamadori and replanted them at home. The big one may be short on feeder roots, but better to give it a chance than throw it away.
 

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Spent the morning cleaning duff out of what has to be the chunkiest Taxus baccata (European Yew) I have ever seen in a yard.

Or no longer in a yard, cause that was my yesterday… which I would like to forget, ouch.

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Ordered some Bonsai books I didn’t have in my library…love Biblio.com. Already have several books by Peter Chan.

Masters Book of Bonsai / Associa, Japan Bonsai
Kodansha/see Oxford U, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is…
G4770009224I4N00Ordered$7.971
$7.97​
The Bonsai Book of Practical Facts Plus Addenda / Jerome Meyer
Purchase Publishing Company, The, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is…
G0945487002I4N00Ordered$7.931
$7.93​
The Bonsai Book: The Definitive Illustrated Guide Including Step-by-step Instructions and the Author's Own Unique Photographic R / Barton, Dan
Trafalgar Square, 1989. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
G1856050793I3N00Ordered$6.951
$6.95​
The Bonsai Bible: The Definitive Guide to Choosing and Growing Bonsai / Chan, Peter
Mitchell Beazley, 2014. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

And I ordered packets of tree seeds to stratify for spring. I’ve had some of these when in the 70s before life got busy.

Japanese Amur Maple...
Qty: 1
Product ID: 1050217756
Koto-no-ito Japanese...
Qty: 1
Product ID: 1795546433
Purple Ghost Japanes...
Qty: 1
Product ID: 1277316159
Summer Gold Japanese...
Qty: 1
Product ID: 1780517162
Fireglow Japanese Ma...
Qty: 1
Product ID: 1693990547
Moonrise Full Moon J...
Qty: 1
Product ID: 1780509550
Matsumurae Japanese...
Qty: 1
Product ID: 1795767637
Oshio-beni Japanese...
Qty: 1
Product ID: 1781546940
Sapphire Dragon Tree...
Qty: 1
Product ID: 1691921259
Golden Hinoki Cypres...
Qty: 1
Product ID: 1265293890

Just in case the copy/paste above doesn’t qualify as a picture…a Japanese Zelcova … Studying it for a spring project.

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Found these at my local bookstore. They charged $4 for them. I also had credits for selling them books. But not bad. The pottery books have snippets of cool ideas and recipes. Top left was printed in the 70’s. The Japanese garden book has cool pics and info. The bonsai book is good and basic. I’ve heard good things about it. Haven’t looked much through it yet.

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