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Great looking pots!

Two month update: after trimming most twigs down to the first two leaves, w some exceptions. I’m pleased w the development in one year since digging.

I can buy porcelain berry at my local nursery, so I don’t think they are considered invasive here in the PNW. I don’t see many growing around so don’t know how invasive they are. Himalayan blackberry on the other hand is all over the place. Constantly fighting seedlings popping up.

I’ve had the best luck w Japanese maple. Trident too of course, but the JMs always seems to do better for me. The issue w tridents was the roots seem a little harder to get close in the rock. New TM roots are very succulent and crush pretty easily, so I had to let them harden off quite a bit...

When is the best time to dig an azalea out of the garden? Any tips, or tricks I should know to help insure success?

An update on the zelkova I liberated from a median last year. I did the cut and a little simple wiring just to get the branches pointed in the right direction. I did leave some twigs that were already there. Placement wasn’t bad for my proposed front so kept them for now. Here’s what came off...

Thanks for your comments. Glad you like them. The first and second paintings are less conceptually complex and sort of visuals that popped into my head while listening to the album. They’re more or less impressions if that make sense. Number 3 (Lucky Day) is by far the most complex one from a...

Painting. Have 4 canvasses going right now. Each one is kind of surreal and riddled w anxiety. Reflective of the time we are living through. Inspired by Tom Waits’ “The Black Rider: The Casting of Magic Bullets”. I’m working on a scale much smaller than I normally do. The smaller pieces are...

It seems extremely timely to post about this particular Yōkai. Yōkai are ghosts or supernatural creature in Japanese mythology. The Amabie is one such creature. It first appeared on the coast of Higo province in 1846. A glowing green light appeared off shore for several days then a creature...

It’s been two years since I did an update on my blue atlas cedar. I repotted it in 2018. Seemed to do quite well. Did a basic styling recently. All copper wire so it should hold. I had reduced the trunk two years ago, but shortened it more last fall. I kept the branch at the top back to ensure...

Looks like you got a great start. That JWP is waaaay nicer than my first tree. Sounds like you are getting some good advice. I’m not very experienced w JWP since I’ve lived, until recently, in climates where they don’t do well. I’m dipping my toes in to white pines now that I live in a...

Wow, your are a piece of work @Rivka. You’re the one who asked the question, and @eryk2kartman gave a polite, informed answer. Then you went into attack mode. It looks like you are new to this site, so you will discover people with whom you don’t agree and may be rightly offended by. So save...

Make sure your diatomaceous earth is not the fine powder version used for pest control. There is a diatomite rock that is great (don’t remember the brand). It’s 1/8-1/4” in size.

It’s been a while since I’ve updated this thread. After two years in a plastic nursery container I knew it was time to repot my berberis. It was rescue from a trash pile during a parking lot remodel. I was hoping to get it into a training pot or Anderson flat to start flattening out the root...

Well done. Very attractive design.

At this point @sorce is just getting off on the whole thing. The dickishness, the nonsensical thoughts, the ramblings, the incomplete sentences, the complete non-sequiturs; all just a way stoking the fire around himself and getting loads of attention. Enough already.

Are you certain it is a satsuki? Blooming this time of year, it might be a karume, which bloom about 3 months before satsuki. If it is from a florist it could be forced in a greenhouse too, but it’d probably be easier for them to just cultivate the earlier blooming variety.

I spent the weekend working on the cleaning and preservation of a book of woodblock prints I bought. It is a complete volume of 60 prints by Tamenobu telling the story of “The Shanks Mare Tokaido”, 1890. An 1822 novel about two rubes who humble their way along the Tokaido road from Edo to...

Nice find!

My tridents used to have something similar in California. The nurserymen I asked called it “water mold spores”. They said it was a minor fungal infection caused by warm, damp nights. I’ve never had it hurt the tree, just make those few early leaves look a little ugly. It resolved itself once the...

Oh Jesus, you have truly hit rock bottom. Every time I think you can’t make a post that is more ridiculous and shallower than the last one, you manage to drain a little bit more out of the pool.

Looks like you’ve got a knack for this! Watch out, it’s as addictive as bonsai.

Definitely Chinese. The holes on the side say “orchid pot”. Shape too. They are for those graceful, grassy cymbidiums that are usually grown in tall pots. Some are really elaborate and decorative. The Japanese do them as well, but they just look a little different in style. Neat pot.

Japanese maple Trident European beech Korean privet Hawthorn Crabapple JBP JWP Blue atlas cedar Shimpaku Itoigawa Kishu Mountain hemlock Procumbrens Shore/Lodgepole pine Various accent and carnivorous plants

That is a dwarf Alberta spruce. I’ve not worked one, but there are a lot used in yards and gardens here. I think they like cold in the winter.