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Lenz: "Quit feeling up all the trees and just look around"

Boy does that ever sound Boonish!

Life can gather up and be a machine-gun series of heart masticating explosions for sure--I can't advise on perfect reasons to keep riding other than, completely selfishly, for us to meet someday. May this moment be a refuge of gentleness. A spiritual fan and fellow bonzo geek, Crust

True, True! Nothing stylistically is really that new and I surely acknowledge within the great numbers of Japanese trees designed over the years nearly everything is represented, but not so in America--we probably are talking in terms of Just change in fashion or interpretation however I have...

This is pedestrian knowledge--look at and compare in the past at what is at shows; talk to avid collectors and sellers, they say this is happening too--more and more trees with unique focal points or amazing line or intense detail but have, earlier, what was considered unusable because of...

Ahhh, Sorry, I did not realize this Walter--I was just going off the article in which your response, as always, was perceptive and cuts through the usual bull. Well, in a somewhat playful spirit, I move to abandon the word bonsai, which is pretty easy for me because I rarely speak it anyway. I...

I don't agree. Perhaps the word radical is the thing though. I do believe that what styles are trending and evolving in bonsai would, not many years ago, be rejected as credible. Interestingly what and how is being cultivated or collected is significantly being influence by these changes--what...

I agree that semantics are nothing but linguistic trivia. Arguing about words is infantile mostly, none of it matters, yet it does, in visceral dissection, sometimes amazing parallels and ironies are revealed. The unattached vegetable soup that floats from our causally educated mouths matters...

Yes, in ground. I did dig it up and root pruned. I should get it in a nursery pot this spring if I have time.

This system sounds pretty sophisticated. what controller do you use and what kind of heads?

yes, I definitely think so.

I thought Eric K used a modified thinset product such as you would use to lay tile.

I have had good success making custom ultra strong concrete mixes utilizing a superplasticizer (small amounts on ebay) to keep the water amounts down yes be very workable. touchy stuff but it works amazingly.

Rayner pots are amazingly durable-- she puts out a lot of work with some very fine larger ovals. Lenz pots are great proportionally but alas he is done and they are getting less available. Lang pots are always strong with perfect shapes. Local potters can be commisioned but be emphatic on shape...

My opinion: Jap larch has longer needles than American larch; anything that induces fast root growth(especially non-fine root growth) i.e. root disturbance, repotting; fertilizer makes for longer needles, endless rain can make for floppy needles; fine, divided, slow-growing roots make fine...

It was 1 degree F here this morning. Snow banks prevail.

been there........

do you use the fitted sheets and stretch them on a frame?

What kind of exposure do you give this tree? I had my one and only die on me and suspected it succumbed to a series of setbacks followed by heat. The heat seemed to have done it in--I think. They sure are rubbery things but very cool.

Ironically heavy wet snow left on WC bonzo really can affect branch fronds, orienting them flatter or more down. It always startles me how well this works. I know of one WC geek who uses wet rags to achieve the same effect. I have done it too but don't have the discipline to do a consistent...

I would not hesitate to wire prune and do light rootwork

If you want to keep your Thuya small--prune and wire a lot more.

I mean you can remove up to a third of the roots of any thuya which is pretty aggressive and probably not necessary. on a gently growing planting you don't want to over stimulate but then you want to leave it alone too so it gets dwarf and refined--so it's a balance decision.

Of course, planting can be root pruned without removal. Pros do it all the time. Thuyas a very resilient and not sensitive. get in there and probe around. find out how tight the roots are. How the roots lie. Get in there with a scissor and cut out sections of sections. Selectively remove up to...

What kind/brand of DE is this--