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Hello, This is my first spring season with a JWP, I am still learning how to care for it so I am not familiar with this period yet. I got it mid summer and was able to maintain it until now. I am concerned that it is June1 and the candles are very short, and more on the yellow side of the...

I went to dig up my conifers I had buried the pots in the ground for the winter. I had wrapped the pots in a geo textile material and when I put them on my bench, I noted some antennas moving from the drainage holes. Some annoying ants have decided it was a good place to spend winter I...

Over the last little while I have been watching a larch, that has been showing some signs of browning on some lower branches. I was wondering if anyone would comment on whether or not this is normal? It started being visible when temperatures were still warm above 22C, now nights are cool and...

So i noticed that some sort of scale insect I believed I had eradicated when I bought this tree has come back in great numbers. I just finished drenching the tree in neem oil + dish soap + warm water. The thing is these critters are stuck to the tree, is this the most effective way to try and...

Anyone have any tips on how to repel or not have those darn grey squirrels from destroying years of work? I am growing with the greatest of patience a small olive tree and two seasons in a row a urban tree rat has chewed off what little nebari and taper I was able to create. I came home today...

Hello and help pls! I purchased a nursurey American Larch / Tamarack to start work on next year and I noticed on the tree that I had a few tick-like insects here and there. Upon closer inspection I believe I have larch aphids as I found a few well populated branches with honeydoo and a bunch...

Hello, Someone gave me a gift that they believed was a Larch but looking at it I am thinking its more likely a cedrus (and hard to overwinter for me ........) Anyone care to share their thoughts?

Hello, I have limited space for my bonsai therefore the sun does not pass overhead during the day; their exposition to sunlight is at an angle and some trees like evergreen olives for instance will grow leaves in the direction light is coming from, however these leaves don't turn to match a new...

Hello all, I picked up a Larch Decidua reject from last year at a nursery local to me right before the buds broke about a month ago. I knew trimming and repotting season was well underway for this species so I cut off the lower quarter or so of the nursery pot soil and dropped it into a...

I need help and I don't know where to turn. Google is not helping me resolve my issue so I hope someone here will be willing to give me some advice. And I hope there is not a better forum here for this type of question, apologies in advance. I started some Olea Europaea "africana" seeds I...

I have been growing a tree in the intent of making it into a cascade; it has been growing rather horizontally for now. I was forced to repot it now instead of next spring as the neighbors dog decided to bust into my yard and knock over the pot, shattering it completely. Thankfully it did not...

I am fearing ridicule posting this here but I would like to have your thoughts on a gift I received. A person knowing of my olive obsession decided to gift me some seeds they purchased online for me. I opened the bags found what you can see in the pictures. Petrified/mummified olives :p Is...

Hello again, I recently acquired a Arbequina olive tree from a local outfit; it had a label from a California nursery (fourwindsgrowers.com). I am not crazy about the soil its in, it seems to be some sort of mulchy cedar-like, an off-red colored mulch of some sort. I'd appreciate some advice...

Hello, I have developed something of an obsession with olives, and I have one that I came across last year at a nursery totally by chance. It is of an unknown variety (cultivar? what is the correct term?). In any case, I picked up a Arbequina olive this week. I really would like to know...

Hello, I was given this by someone who knows it has always been an ideal of mine to grow an olive tree as my father living in the Mediterranean has a dozen or so full grown, magnificent trees. When I go visit I am always smitten by them. In any case this one I now have is a first-year...

I am new here and I have been crusing this forum trying to find some info on soil pH. Hopefully there are no threads in obvious places since the search function is not doing much for 2-character searches... In any case, I have been growing for a short while now using pre-mixed substrate and am...