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I plan redoing my entire back yard finally and incorporating space for my trees and future trees. I want to cut down on all the trees I have to just have a few really good trees with potential. I have a small yard so I need to keep things light. Also I think if I just have a few trees to focus...

I’m never lucky enough!

Thanks for the input

so here in sunny southeast pa the temperature has been a balmy 15 degrees average. I have my Japanese maples outdoors in pots gathered together in a wooden box filled in with mulch but not completely covered. Any thoughts on their survival? I’ve used this method for two years so far and I’ve...

Yeah I just saw this because @TommyHallahan resurceted the post. How did it work out? Still in business?

@ysrgrathe im also in Pa what town are you in? Maybe if your current batch wakes up this spring we could make a deal ;)!

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Anyone ever successfully layer a sangu kaku? If so what technique did you use? I have a grafted one in my landscape and I want one with its own roots to work on. I've had three air layers fail in as many years. I've successfully layered other palmatums w the same technique. Is there something...

Sango Kaku and Nishiki Gawas were air layered from a mother tree. Tridents were started as 1 yr old seedlings. Ive tried for the last three years to layer a sangu kaku. I had given up. I thought they were one of the varieties that didn't take well. What method steps and materials did you use?

Visiting New Orleans in a month. I always like to stop in the local bonsai shops to see what's going on. Anyone have any suggestions for locations in New Orleans? Thanks

No I don't. And now I'm faced w the same dilemma 20 degrees tonight. I brought everything in tonight back out tomorrow. I'm watching all the leaves on my biggest JM slowly shrivel up. I have a bad feeling it's toast. It was far from a finished tree but the trunk size alone gave me high hopes for...

Thanks guys I will try leaving them outside. I wish this weather would figure itself out already! :mad:

Is anybody else dealing with fully leafed out trees in freezing weather. My maple is really starting to look unhealthy and I'm not sure what to do. I've essentially been keeping it indoors 95% of the time because the weather has yet to rise above 35. I don't think it's going to make it. The...

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My dilemma is that I don't have a space that is unheated. The closest I can get is my basement. Which is cooler than the house but still is at least in the 60's. I could bring it in at night I guess and take it out in the morning on my way to work. Just wasn't sure how to proceed.

Well it's February and due to unseasonably warm weather we have been seeing in south eastern pa my Japanese maples are starting to break bud. I was planning on repotting this year but am unsure about doing so this time of year as we may yet see a return to lower temps. I usually would be doing...

Well to be honest I didn't think it had any bonsai potential as of yet anyway. The leaves just kind of reminded me of a dogwood which is a tree I like. Being that I'm in Pennsylvania and dogwoods are native here and also that there's a nice one in my mothers front yard I thought maybe this was...

hello I found this little guy growing out of a dead log that fell in my mothers backyard this summer. Thought it looked like a young dogwood now not so sure. Any thoughts?

I'm going to be following this thread. GREAT IDEA. I've been trying to figure out what I should be looking to collect here in SE Pa or even S jersey but that info is hard to come by. Any suggestions are welcome

Thanks for all the replies by the way.

I've see that Van Meer technique before pbone. I thought it was interesting but it's a little above my pay grade at this moment. I feel pretty confident in some of my horticultural skills but at this point I just want to let these trees grow and heal naturally. Not that that's unnatural. They're...

Thanks Maros, Sorce I understood what he meant but I could see how someone could misconstrue that post. Lol. Brian thanks for taking the time to clarify and demonstrate. I guess if I have two years to wait I should be able to make a decision by then and figure where I want to go with it.

Thanks for the opinions guys. Brian it looks as if cutting so drastically vertically will make and even bigger scar. I won't question your expertise though your trees speak for themselves. I do want the option like Smoke said of having potential branches grow there however. It appears as if...

Beautiful.