Bonsai Growing in My Yard

[ColinFraser]

Did it again - oh well. Be sure to "click to expand" to get the entire post.

I think you may have accidentally typed your post inside the "quote" tags for the previous post you were replying to. Anything between those tags shows up as small italics like that . . .

Nice trees! I've been wanting to take out most of the lawn that came with my house, and this is the kind of thing I'd like to replace it with!

 

[grouper52]

I think you may have accidentally typed your post inside the "quote" tags for the previous post you were replying to. Anything between those tags shows up as small italics like that . . .

Nice trees! I've been wanting to take out most of the lawn that came with my house, and this is the kind of thing I'd like to replace it with!

Thanks for the info about posting.

Where you live, you could xeriscape with a little drip system even during the drought, I imagine. It seems to me that planting material in neat rows - rather than making them look like part of a landscaping project - would just inspire people to dig up and steal your trees in the middle of the night, whereas xeriscaping them in an informal way may camouflage them. Just a thought.

 

[ColinFraser]

Thanks for the info about posting.

Where you live, you could xeriscape with a little drip system even during the drought, I imagine. It seems to me that planting material in neat rows - rather than making them look like part of a landscaping project - would just inspire people to dig up and steal your trees in the middle of the night, whereas xeriscaping them in an informal way may camouflage them. Just a thought.

Yes, I skip car washings, occasional showers, and all lawn watering, just to justify the water I use on my bonsai!

I have thought about the theft angle and considered only putting things in the earliest stages out front - stuff being left to run that would just look like young landscape trees.

Your xeriscaping camouflage comment gave me visions of hiding each prebonsai behind a cactus! LOL

 

[grouper52]

That would be wild. Probably make you the first person ever to actually get the kit and it worked! Would put you right up there rubbing shoulders with the likes of Walter Pall as a pioneer in bonsai! Just imagine it. Japanese Maple number 1 in competition with Jack for one of the most recognizable bonsai in the world!

People plant these in their yard on purpose? For what? These are the ugliest pine trees we have here! And there are mlions.
But seriously.
1. How does it take rootwork?
2.What time of the year did you do rootwork if ever?
3. Can it be forced to backbud?
4. Will the needles reduce in size.

 

[grouper52]

Love the elm!
How long have you had the Jack pine? Or I should ask will you be starting a thread for it? I have questions.

For those interested in this Jack pine, here are four photos taken in late 2006, I think. Some people might oohhh and ahhh over this thing as it was then, but the only thing really interesting to me is the base, and the possibility of doing something with that little branch coming off of that base to the left. The huge stove-top upper part just doesn't do it for me, but I realize that it might for some people. My idea in putting it back into the ground was to let it acclimate until significant new growth appeared up high, then chop (done) and then if it survived and started throwing significant growth into the lower branches - especially the one at the lower left - I would/will develop that into an interesting little thing attached to some gnarly deadwood above. Problem is, it's been in the ground 6 years now and is only now just recovering a small bit of vigor and vitality. A truly long-term project, but hey - what can I expect from this sadist.

 

[grouper52]

Here are also two virts I did back then, although I ultimately had the thought instead to just leave the base, and work with that it I could get it to grow. Enjoy.

 

[grouper52]

Here are two more trees that I photographed but somehow forgot to post yesterday: A chestnut, and a sweet gum I got from Brent years ago when I went down to see him. Enjoy.