oaks

  1. C

    First overwintering - Chicago (zone 6a) - Cold Frame

    I have three potted red oaks (pre-bonsai) that I started from local acorns I gathered last October. I have prepared a cedar cold frame packed with cedar mulch and am waiting for the frost before placing the young trees inside. Is this an adequate overwintering set-up? I am aware that many...
  2. Big Country Bonsai

    Another Buckley Oak collected in Texas.

    Hey guys, just documenting and sharing another Quercus buckleyi ( Buckley’s Oak) that I collected near Abilene, Texas. I’m really excited about this one because of the really nice radial roots that it has. There’s a tiny bit of inverse taper at the moment but I’m hoping now that the lower trunk...
  3. Waltron

    Collected oak (bicolor) little black beetles are attacking and drilling into it, help!

    I collected this guy a couple weeks ago, had to saw the tap root, but its living! leaves do appear to be growing and branches lengthening. now ive seen these little holes in these trees in the wild and in the acrorns, I cant find much on them anywhere, They are tehse teeny tiny little black...
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