Recent content by Brian Van Fleet

Your garden is putting on a show Serg! Nice new beech you snuck in there…wow!

Ginkgo make great bonsai and become very interesting as they age. They don’t follow the “rules” and traditional training techniques aren’t always reliable. They bud back easily, but buds doesn’t always produce branches, cuts are slow to heal, and they don’t get bark the same way in pots as in...

First glimpses of color here… Persimmon: Stewartia:

You’re right, it was in an old BonsaiToday I think. One of theses:

Some good reading is here: https://www.bonsainut.com/resources/dormant-season-spraying-part-1-broadleaf-deciduous-trees.36/ https://www.bonsainut.com/resources/dormant-season-spraying-part-2-lime-sulfur-and-bordeaux-mix.37/...

Don’t they grow in the wild where you are? They definitely don’t need protection around here.

Awesome…nice tree too.😂

Normal. They won’t open, and will stop when it gets cold enough. Nothing to do, nothing to worry about.

I’ve seen young ones with figs, so it might be more environment than age…? I have managed to keep this one outside quite a bit; on nice days in the winter and pushed the margins a little in fall and spring.

Got that one today.

Next stop…maybe some fall color?

A shot before fall color begins to show up. Not really sure what kind of fern that it, or how it got there, but they’re starting to show up in a few other trees and I’m starting to think it might be a little invasive,

Figs! First time I think since I received it.

A couple fall blooms are always fun…

Completely unwired it yesterday, some of the wires had been on for several years, and a little too long. When the needles are hardened off, I’ll prune and wire it out again.