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Last fall: Today:

Repotting season is on! I’m trying to follow some recent guidance and advice to go smaller in pot size and bolder in pot color. European White Birch in robin’s egg blue Chuck Iker round pot. True to form I misaligned the tree in the pot — this is the front of the tree but just barely is not...

Whoops! I missed this. I thought it was the end of the season. I can get pics ... within a week?

The summers have been brutal for three years running. Landscape trees have major dead sections all throughout the region.

I don’t think so. I wired the tree as usual in the early spring. It’s done totally fine with this wire before. My technique has improved a lot and I break so many fewer branches than I used to in years prior. The top escape branches are unwired and unbent. The entire tree was non-responsive...

About 8-10 hours of wiring work done on this yamadori Subalpine Fir

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RIP. It never woke up this year. The cambium remained green and supple though April, but the buds were all dead. I think it was killed by a stint at 17°F from a surprise winter storm.