Anyone with Boston Ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) experience...

[Cadillactaste]

I like this combo very much and don't see any contrast of values. Well done and can only improve with age.

Thanks...yes with a little patina it will be even more stunning! Michael Ryan Bell helped me with pot shape. I had two other pots which he found fault for this tree. I stumbled upon this one and he felt it would be a good pairing. So I did get advice first before taking the plunge on the purchase.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Taken this morning...

 

[Cadillactaste]

Inside with nasty storms moving across Ohio with talk of rotation. This ain't no mame any more.. Letting it grow,just for the heck of it. Love how the foliage goes smaller as it reaches almost the floor.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Had no intention of this. But noticed as I pulled them from protection today, that these vines really pulled on that tiny tree that was under it all. It's pouring and strong winds...so back in the greenhouse. Came in earlier than we thought. Didn't grab a good shot. But here is a good comparison of what came off. I just kept taking more and more.
Brought the foliage back up into the canopy having a fuller look. Still not six inches. Lol glad I pulled this one from the contest. Love this tree. So grateful I had an excuse to buy this species.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Fought the rain drops...for this outside photo. I think...it pulls it back into the realm of our hobby, and not a house plant accent.

 

[Cadillactaste]

No...I don't regret this purchase. Nor to I regret pulling it from the mame contest. Look at the trailing vines. Just starting to turn fall colors. But looks so amazing with that glaze on the Masako Kunii pot (Japan) on a Wan root stand.

 

[Shima]

Just can't work with gloves on well

Why gloves?

 

[Cadillactaste]

Why gloves?

My mom was allergic...but apparently I am not. So no gloves now. Though people many times thinks it's poison ivy in a pot. Lol

 

[Shima]

My mom was allergic...but apparently I am not. So no gloves now. Though people many times thinks it's poison ivy in a pot. Lol

Then you can use wire. Very fine wire just loosely applied here and there. Works for my ficus pumila, also a vine.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Then you can use wire. Very fine wire just loosely applied here and there. Works for my ficus pumila, also a vine.

I've wired more mature vines. New vines is like thin hair. But this will be cut way back come winter storage in the cold greenhouse. It's more of a novelty leaving it long for fall colors currently.

 

[Shima]

2 by Wolfgang Putz.

 

[Cadillactaste]

More colors...

 

[Cadillactaste]

All @defra 's fault...thanks again. If it wasn't for your Mame contest...I wouldn't have this on my bench. So enjoying it.

 

[defra]

Nice!
I'm not feeling guilty tough

 

[Soup Dragon]

I'm probably not doing this right, but I let mine grow unhindered until it drops all of its leaves, and then cut back during the winter. Here are a couple of pics (Garfield for scale).

 

[Cadillactaste]

I'm probably not doing this right, but I let mine grow unhindered until it drops all of its leaves, and then cut back during the winter. Here are a couple of pics (Garfield for scale).

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N8ce! Agreed, with as tiny thin as the vine structure is on new growth. you have to let it grow wild and crazy.

 

[Cadillactaste]

A lot going on for 2020...in everyone's life for sure. I just really haven't had the desire to "stage" a photo shoot. But I did grab an image of this tree that I wish to document for fall colors and then, it heading into dormancy. It's always ahead of everything else. Some things have really yet to give a shout out to fall yet in my pots.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Great tree. That pot goes so incredibly well with the tree in fall color. It's mustve been made specifically for this season and this tree. Love the combo.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Great tree. That pot goes so incredibly well with the tree in fall color. It's mustve been made specifically for this season and this tree. Love the combo.

Thank you. That pot was a pain in the arse to purchase. My official Japanese pot from Japan. The site made you not only translate...but change font size. Finally figuring it all out and taking notes. I make the purchase before leaving the country. Only to get an email that third party shipping needed information. All my notes were at home. So I had to blunder through figuring it all out again. Which size text because it wasn't stated. But got it figured out. The pot is stunning and quite the splurge for me at that time. So thank you. The combo...makes me know it was worth the headache. The tree...is one I do enjoy. Many think its poison ivy...which it isn't. But makes some take a double take.

 

[hinmo24t]

Actually, mine is just common ivy, hedera helix. My experience has been that benign neglect works. Regular feeding is best, but I am expert in sporadic fertilization. Whatever you do, let it sunburn at least once a year. Frost doesn't hurt. Cut it back periodically. Simple shapes work best. But the main thing is, keep it alive. For a long time.

2 weeks ago, I left mine out in a direct-line wind that was clocked at 100mph. The beautiful pot it was in was smashed into zillions of pieces. But, I had this nanban pot. Ivy seems to make everything look good.

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The trunk resulted from keeping the ivy alive.

cool. i have a porcelain berry thats going to look very similar to this next year. the trunk actually looks gnarled and woven. it had a colony of medium size ants in it for awhile and they almost carved or made tunnels all around and throughout the trunk. the ants are gone and it is vigorous regardless, just unkept and ready for a style next year. its going to be a frankenstein bonsai for sure