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I dug this one a moth ago and it's still going strong! Mountain laurel. Since digging, I've heard they are tough customers but this one came up with a decent amount of fine roots so fingers crossed it stays healthy over summer.

I'm also curious if anyone has an update. I found a volunteer tree of heaven in a community garden that has been repeated cut back and made an interesting stump. I plan to dig it in spring as they clearly don't want it. Not sure what I'll do with it yet but it already has nice taper and is...

Nice looking yamadori! I'm also discovering the local natives in eastern forests often have amazing nebari. Regarding the suckers on the yamadori, next time around would you remove them right as they appeared or after the first year? Last spring, I collected a large sugar maple which was also...

Sheffield's seeds suggests the following for Monterey seeds: Scarification: Soak in water, let stand in water for 24 hours. Stratification: cold stratify for 30 days. Germination: sow seed 1/16" deep, tamp the soil, mulch the seed bed.

That trunk shape still blows me away. Great work! I went back and looked at your first pic you posted of it. Any chance you have even earlier pictures of it? How much of the trunk was buried when you found it?

I'll admit my collecting is in its infancy and my experience is more conifer and mountain specific. I started collecting deciduous species last fall, so thank you all for correcting me with respect to the best practice of woodland deciduous trees.

What the people have said above me makes sense in the context of trunk chopping, but for root pruning - if you have the luxyet of time - pruning half the big roots and collecting the next year after doing the other half should be sound practice. The half that are not pruned can support the tree...

Trees that require dormancy pay attention to the temperature. It's not all about light. In spring temperate trees using stored carbohydrates for new growth, fall they are storing carbohydrates for next spring. A tree indoors experiences static warm temperatures year round, possibly late spring...

Transplanting is probably the hardest part since they grow long tap roots in their dry native range. I have thought about ground layering to make collection easier, but I have heard of numerous people who had some success. I wonder if it would even survive in Seattle though to make it worth my...

How long have you had them for? It could take more than one season for a plant to show it is stressed from being deprived of dormancy. Tropicals are wonderful to mess with indoors in winter though.

These are indoors in a heated area in winter? I am surprised to see that because the sage I know (Artesmia tridentata) lives in eastern Washington to the Rockies where they experience very cold winters in nature. As an aside, I have always expected if you could successfully transplant them...

Can't wait to see the product!

No idea if a planters box will simulate ground growing. Is that equivalent to a raised bed? Plastic could work, but if you plant enough seedlings, losing a few will be no big deal. I have no idea about those species and Miami climate, but I assume they'll be okay.

I think for the ferny accents, I'll need to see them in flower in spring to identify them. Tree identification is more my speed, but the flower character will give us most all we need to know. Nice yew, by the way! I think it may be a good idea to put some of the ones you collected in fall...

I have no experience with the species, but typically if you can't get any close fine roots, you may not expect great survival rates. Fine roots are what you need most to ensure survial. A few suggestions I have are, 1) to dig a larger root ball - it may be useful to do a combination of methods...

I would love to see this. Only be sure the 3 areas are equivalent in branch position, size, and light availability. If i were you, I would also add a negative control with no work done on it.

RKatzin, it might interest you to know you have a unique subspecies of the Quercus garryana in your area. By the presence of small hairs on the underside of the leaves, I have identified my oak as Quercus garryana subsp. brewerei. They a common to the Klamath mountain region and are known for a...

That's what I am wondering as well! I found some examples on BonsaiNut of people root pruning nursery or bonsai oaks of other species at the usual early springtime, but OP was posting specifically about English oak, so certainly worth a shot. I just collected a huge Brewer's (subspecies of...

Also followed by an uptick (pun intended) in Lyme disease! Watch out east coasters! It may actually take 2 years for the increase in ticks to manifest though since their larva to adult time is 2 years.

I stumbled on this English oak article today while looking for information on other oaks. You may benefit from reading it before collecting. http://www.bonsai4me.com/AdvTech/ATquercus%20rootpruning%20and%20repotting.htm

Wow, nice bendy trunk! To elaborate on my previous comment, if you want a branch to become woody earlier, take the center of a frond out at a bifurcation point. The two smaller side branches will activate into new fronds, or buds from scales below your cut. If you want a frond to become a new...

It is practically identical to the foliage management of white cedar and western red cedar (but more droopy and snow-adapted), and in mentality similar to the hinoki cypress fronds. I refer you to two posts I published earlier this year on white cedar discussions, in which I actually pruned...

I've got some midterms this week, so I will be writing about the trees on my blog at a later date. However on the long ride back to Seattle, I was able to clear up a mystery we ran into. We found a red berry on what we were told was an oak and the berry made us think it may not have been an oak...

You could move these into the ground early next spring if you want. When developing seedlings in the ground, I don't think there is much negative to speak of. I was advised by my teacher to cut large roots while the tree is in the ground the year before planning to actually dig it up. Also at...

I liked your characterization of a frankentree. Gave me a good laugh. Also a good halloween costume idea for bonsai maybe...